Aspen Sympathy Card

{ tams # 74482 }

Print Recipe

Cuts:
Early Espresso Card base to 11 x 4-1/4, and score at 5-1/2. Burnish along the fold with your bone folder.

Silver & Gold foil DSP to slightly under 4 x 5-1/4.

Brass Metallic cardstock to 4 x 5-1/4.

Champagne Foil about 1-3/4 x 1-1/4. Die Cut small leaf with Aspen Tree dies.

Copper Foil cardstock to about 2-1/2 x 2-1/4.

Basic White Scrap about 3-3/4 x 1-1/4.

Basic White card inside at 3-5/8 x 4-7/8.

Two Pumpkin Pie Scraps at about 2-3/4 x 1-1/2.

Die cuts:
Brass, Copper, and Champagne foils with the Aspen Tree Dies, as well as the Pumpkin Pie scraps.
Die cut Basic White scrap with the larger banner die from the Stylish Shapes dies.

Use a clear block as a palette by dipping half of it into Merry Merlot ink. Add a drop of water with your Water Painter. Pick up some ink, and randomly blot the Pumpkin Pie leaf die cuts. This will give it the appearance of leaves. Set aside to dry.

Blending:
Use Blending Brushes with Merry Merlot, Pumpkin Pie, and Crushed Curry ink on the Gold foil DSP, starting with Crushed Curry at the bottom/middle, then Pumpkin Pie in the middle/top, and finishing with Merry Merlot at the top and sides.

Stamp in the leaf image from the Lots To Celebrate stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink on a dry baby wipe. Create an ink pad by dropping one drop of each re-inker onto each leaf. Stamp the leaves on the Basic White card inside piece as well as the bottom left hand corner of your envelope.

Stamp the sentiment from Special Moments in Merry Merlot ink toward the right side of the Basic White banner piece.

Adhere your now dried leaves toward the top of the DSP with Tombow liquid glue.

Adhere your now dried leaves toward the top of the DSP with Tombow liquid glue.

Apply Dimensionals to the back of the Brass foil corners and a few behind the trees. Adhere to DSP. Trim any extra DSP if necessary. Adhere these pieces to the Early Espresso card base, leaving equal borders on all four sides. Lay your leaves and sentiment as shown in the sample, and when you are sure of the position, add dimensionals where needed.

Adhere the Basic White interior piece inside the card leaving equal borders on all four sides.