Awesome Card for His Awesomeness!

Published February 28, 2016 | By Genna Gifford

In The Meadow to the rescue.

It was Wonder Hubby’s birthday this month and I needed to make a special card – but struggled a bit with what to make. He is a huge fan of hiking and loves mountains. He loves to look into the distance at a fantastic view and know he’s going to head out and disappear into it. He also loves the magic of sunrise – which is why he chose that time to propose (at the edge of the Grand Canyon, but that’s another story). I don’t get the hiking part but I do understand what he finds so beautiful about mountains. And sunrises.

I’ve made a few cards with the mountains from the In The Meadow stamp set and thought it would be great to do something a bit three-dimensional with them. And I was inspired by the amazing talented brayer artist Michelle Zindorf to try to combine this with brayered background. The result was a card I was REALLY happy with.

I started out with a piece of A4 Whisper White, cut in half longways. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the finished piece and thought I’d probably muck it up somewhere along the line and this way I’d be able to pick and choose the bits I liked.

I brayered Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral ink onto the top part of one piece, masking off a circle for the sun. I then added some Daffodil Delight and Hello Honey ink to the sun with a sponge, using the reverse mask that I’d punched the circle from to help me leave a white border.

On the other long strip of Whisper White I stamped a series of mountains all the way along and coloured them with Basic Gray ink and an Aquapainter. Then I carefully cut along the top line of the mountain range.

I brayered Wild Wasabi and Always Artichoke ink over the rest of the white areas and stamped flowers and grass over the top. The final touch was to use the White Gel Pen to colour in the flowers and add speckles to the expanse of meadow to suggest the distance the fields disappear into.

The two pieces were then layered on top of each other with Dimensionals.

As it turned out I didn’t muck it up and I ended up with a very long scene that I loved.

But then I didn’t know how to use it on a card.

When it came time to cut up that long strip I felt sick – what if I cut it up and ruined it? Luckily I didn’t and I was able to use a pretty big portion of the image on that single card.

Here’s a good look at the finished project from all the different angles.

We’ll start at the front…

…and move to the left…

…keep going left until…

We’re back to the inside!

The ‘awesome’ on the front is from Endless Birthday Wishes. This is a photopolymer stamps so I was able to bend it to match the banner shape from Endless Thanks.

And I helped tie it all together by colouring it with the same colours as the brayered sky.