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Friday, June 8, 2012

Get Well Friday

To me, making get well cards ranks right up there with making sympathy cards. I own nothing remotely "get well" specific. Fortunately, for me -- and the people I know, come to think of it -- I rarely need them. Today, I needed one, however, so mixed a couple of stamps, a computer generated sentiment, and my favourite copied-from-Heather style.  




I may or may not have decided to sponge in green because Heather recently did, and I happened to have the same inks. ;)  Before I sponged in the colours, I stamped and embossed the text background. Taking the post-it masks off, I stamped the butterfly and embossed with holographic embossing powder. I tried to catch a little bit of the iridescence  here:



While the holographic embossing works better (I think) on coloured ink, I liked that it kept the butterfly from being just, well, black. (I had originally planned to do flower silhouettes over the masked panel, but at the last minute thought they might seem a little gloomy for a get well card. Whereas a butterfly is never gloomy!) I could have done all this right on the card base, but I knew I wanted the sentiment banner folded over the edge on the one side. Both the main panel and the banner are popped up. A few half-pearls finished everything off. 
After missing a couple of weeks, I'm linking to today's Unity Friends with Flair hop. Have a fabulous Friday! 


Supplies: white cardstock, Unity Key to Joy & Giving It All Meaning stamps, Memento new sprout, pear tart, bamboo leaves & cottage ivy, Versamark & Brilliance graphite black inks, clear & holographic embossing powders, Recollections black half pearls, dimensionals

31 comments:

  1. Very pretty card. Love that colour scheme.

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  2. Very beautiful Lindsey! Thanks for sharing!

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  3. This is so pretty Lindsey. Well done on capturing the holographic coolness in your photo. Those greens do work well together don't they? I'll be pulling them out again often. And as for the layout-what can I say? Winner. Every. Time.

    Heather

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  4. may or may not...lol :) Love it! And the colours are fabulous. Get well cards aren't often ones I make either - hadn't really thought about it until you said it!

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  5. Oh, wow! This is just stunning!!!

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  6. So gorgeous! I'm loving the masked sponging and your embossing, of course. Those tiny black pearls are the perfect embellishment!

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  7. I love the card. Simple but pretty.

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  8. Fantastic card! Love that big butterfly.

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  9. Lindsey, this is GORGEOUS!! I LOVE the coloured panel - such pretty colours and I'm sure the holographic embossing looks awesome in real life. Love that butterfly! A wonderful card for someone who is under the weather. Love this!! {hugs}

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  10. This is absolutely stunning! Love it!

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  11. This is breathtaking!!! I love everything about this beauty! I am stuck on something you said, "a butterfly is never gloomy'...I LOVE THAT!!! Thank you for sharing :)

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  12. Thanks for the inspiration!! i have both these stamp sets and have yet to use them. now im ready to make something :)

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  13. Very pretty! Love the shiny details on the musical butterfly! The panel works very well, love it!!
    Hugs, Wendy

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  14. That is absolutely beautiful! What a great CAS creation, and I loved seeing your resist technique. :)

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  15. This is really nice and I Love the bit of shimmer to the butterfly!

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  16. Great card! Love the butterfly on there too!

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  17. SO AMAZING! LOVE that green ink---LOVE your masking skills! FAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  18. That holographic embossing powder is way cool. Never seen that before. Great card!

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  19. Lindsey, this is stunning! I love your sponging and how perfect your masked lines are (I always end up with rough edges). And that embossing powder rocks! This one is going straight into my CASE file!

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  20. This is just gorgeous! Love that green panel!

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  21. I love the holographic embossing powder, adds so much! Such a pretty card!

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  22. Whoa! This card is all kinds of fabulous! The sponging, the CAS design, the embossed text, the holographic e.p. (I love that stuff, too!)= majorly gorgeous!

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  23. I love this, great shimmer on the butterfly, and double embossing, wow! It's really nice.

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  24. I like that card a lot and as you can see you don´t need huge equipment, the stamps you had were just fine and fit so well! Hugs Janna

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  25. Oh my gooness gracious!! Lindsey this is absolutely gorgeous. WOW!!
    Love that sponged green, the effect is stunning. :)

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  26. oh look at that! the masking and embossing is fabulous!

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