With Sympathy

 Playing around with techniques....

On the top card I embossed the thistles,and vines( Lavinia stamps) with Tim Holtz Seafoam white embossing powder, and then used Distress Inks-Faded Jeans,Wild Honey and Peeled Paint. I stamped the Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint on to  my ink resistant sheet and misted them with water. I then swiped the card through the colour until the desired effect was achieved. I then applied the Wild Honey in the same way to the top of the card and without dabbing too much of the colour off, dried it as it was. I quite like the dribbles that appeared.

Another couple of layers of Blue Jeans was added to the bottom until it was quite a bit darker in colour. The whole card was dried and then I dripped water onto the card and dabbed this off with a paper towel to get the droplet look. As the little butterfly did not turn out too well, I decided to cut two out of a Cherry Lyn  dye ( exotic Butterfly small) and attach over the embossed version. A piece of simple blue ribbon was tied around the base of the card and the sentiment was cut out using the Jasmine Cricut cartridge.

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The second card, I used Faded Jeans and Squeezed Lemonade to colour the card. This time I embossed the wild flowers and vines ( Lavinia Stamps) using Stamp Effect Pearl Violet Thick enamel. I then added the colour with a Tim Holtz ink blending tool to get a softer look. I added the butterflies using the same day as above and a Stampin Up Sentiment. Pearls were added to the flowers and the sentiment.