Hello friends!
On Mondays I facilitate a ukulele group at Shepherd Center and this week, in the adjacent classroom the flower arranging class had beautiful red faux cardinals to include in their floral arrangements. They were SO pretty. When I sat at my desk to create this week's project, they inspired me!
I love the symbolism of the cardinal. They're often associated with messages of love and hope, of remembrance of a loved one who has passed on, or the presence of angels. Some say that the red signifies the blood of Christ and that cardinals are a sign of divine intervention.
I combined our Vintage Christmas background stamp with one of our older sets, God Will Take Care of You, to create this project. The background stamp and the branch were stamped onto some pale grey card stock, colored with Copic markers, die-cut, distressed and heavily inked with tea dye distress ink.
For the inside I stamped the bird and branch directly onto a piece of designer paper that had enough of a design to be interesting when viewed through the card front but was not so busy that it would detract from the stamping. Here I added just a hint of black to the stamped image because I wanted the cardinals markings to be black rather than grey or brown. Once again, the edges of the paper were inked and distressed, and the entire card front and back was generously splashed with diluted acrylic paint "snow." (In all the years that we have lived in Florida it has only snowed once or twice, so here we are, "living vicariously!" I'm not good at cold, so I'm ok with an only occasional experience of the real thing.)
There are other snowflakes in the store that one could use, but this little snowflake is a tiny little surprise that is not visible when the card is closed. I added a bright red pearl to its center, but if you're mailing this card you could leave that off if you'd rather. I kept the embellishments for this one really simple but if the recipient were a girlie girl, it could certainly be blinged and bowed up, especially if it could be hand-delivered!
Supplies:
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Christmas Background
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - God Will Take Care of You Bundle
- Craft Consortium Test of Time 6x6 (inside)
- Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Christmas Stockings & Mittens (snowflake)
- May Arts 1/16" Jute Burlap Cord Sampler - 24 yards
- Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Pearls - Red
- Memento ink
- tea dye distress ink
- Copic markers
- white acrylic paint "snow"
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