Where is the sentiment?
If you are like me you have piles of beautiful cards just waiting to be sent but when you need a card quick you don't have one with the right sentiment.
When this happens to me it is almost always a sympathy card. You never know when you are going to need one and unfortunately, when it rains it pours. I rarely run out of birthday or thank you cards. but sympathy cards I never seem to have enough of them.
Sometimes when I make a card I don't have a specific person in mind to send it to. I just want to play with a certain stamp set or try a new technique, so I stamp them with the sentiments I use most which are Happy Birthday and Thank you. I also use Thinking of you a lot because it can be used for all most all occasions.
However, If you want to make sure you always have a card when you need it there are several ways to handle this.
- You can always cover over the sentiment you have on a card with the Happy Mistake technique that I demonstrator on my YouTube video Quick Tip #6 Happy Mistake
- You can leave the sentiment off until you need the card
Method #2 works great if you do not have a lot of layers and texture. If you have lots of layering you may not be able to get a good impression
When I made the card above I left plenty of space at the bottom to stamp a sentiment when I need it.
I have the texture that I created with the Fluttering Textured Impression Embossing Folder and the dimension of the free-floating butterfly but below them is a nice flat space just waiting for a sentiment to be stamped.
I created the butterfly by stamping the image with Versamark and heat embossing it with Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder. I colored it with Stampin' Blends Alcohol Ink Markers and fussy cut it.
I used glue dots on the underside of the butterflies abdomen so the wings stayed loose because I wanted it to look like it is ready to fly off the card.
Thank You for stopping by. If you would like to try any of the products I used to make this card a complete product list is below.
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