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HOLD ON TO HOPE Easter, Sympathy, Confirmation & Baptism Cards
hi cat Chancellor with stamp art
connection I'm an independent Stampin Up
demonstrator and today I'm going to do a
couple cards made from this bundle
called hold on to hope this is a stamp
and framelits bundle it has some really
nice stamps lots of texture and some
really cool framelits especially this
very very intricate filigree cross as
well as an outline cross and then some
other smaller crosses in fact I love
this little one right here because this
not only cuts out the inside but it also
gives you an outside cross as well so
you get to with with this frame once so
that's that's really I think a really
bonus now the card that I'm going to
make are going to be an Easter card and
a sympathy card both using the filigree
cross as well as some different
backgrounds the background here is going
to be brusho crystal color on watercolor
paper and all my directions and sizes
are going to be on my blog which is
going to be in the bottom there on my
message now I'm using all the standard
sizes for a five and a half by four and
a quarter card and this really neat
proportional matting guide is also free
for you to download from my blog at
stamp art connection com just go where
it says free stuff open it up and then
right click and save it and when you
save it on either your computer or on
your mobile device you can then print
however you want to up to print it here
I printed it on just a piece of paper
and here I printed it on a piece of
photo paper
and it's kind of got a nice nice weight
of paper so this is a very handy guide
and this is what I'm always using when
I'm talking about my my sizes so having
said all that the stock that we're going
to be using are a whisper white bass
card as well as a whisper white layer in
five and three and 1/4 and then some
gold foil we're going to use gold foil
four for this card and then we're going
to bet cut our back of our cross with
white glimmer paper so this cross is
basically going to be using both of
these framelits right here so I've cut
this cross with white glimmer paper and
then I've cut these crosses with vellum
and then the foil that I used for both
of these two filigree crosses is
actually the champagne foil paper and it
really has a nice kind of pinky color
that goes really well with our Calypso
coral background and the our color
scheme our color scheme here so these
are two of the key pieces you're going
to use as well as you can stamp any
sentiment that you want in the front of
your card this is what I've chosen that
came with a stamp set but I have a an
old retired stamp set over here that has
happy Easter and a nice he is he is not
here he has risen that I would also may
use so there's other sentiments that you
can find in the either in the catalog or
if you happen to have a
and Easter sentiment this from the
flourishing phrases is what I'm going to
use for my with sympathy and I'm going
to use some embossing I'm using white
embossing powder to reverse emboss the
front of my of my watercolor paper so
here is my watercolor paper and I'm also
going to be using some advising folders
this is the let's say this is the what
is it what is it what is it the seaside
texture folder is what I use to emboss
this piece and then I think I'm going to
use this folder here which is the
layered leaves dynamic folder for for
our card so you're gonna need a big shot
you're going to need some vellum some
foil some watercolor paper and then I'm
using Calypso coral because I think that
really blends nicely with the with the
colors so let's get started what's
really kind of neat about this stamp
right here then I'm going to show you
first is that you can take this image
and how I want you to emboss it is and
I'm just going to show you we're going
to go this way and it kind of fits kind
of a yin-yang so you kind of see how you
can kind of go opposite and you can just
kind of fit this like this in your on
your on your figure okay so so
is the pattern that I'm going to use to
emboss on the on the watercolor paper so
I just wanted to kind of show you how
you want to how you want to set up that
pattern okay so then let's put this
aside bring over my my watercolor paper
and open my Versamark I got a silly
little pug that's getting bored down
here okay so we're going to do you kind
of see this see mark we're going to do
this this here ink this up and we're
going to kind of match that right there
and we're going to do the same thing
here we're going to put this one here
I'm gonna turn it around I'm going to
put that one there so that's kind of a
nice weave kind of like line those up
like like yin yang they fit nicely
inside of each other so I'm going to
grab one of these little sheets here and
I'm going to take my white embossing
powder and put that all over my card
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okay so that's nicely embossed you can
kind of see the embossing on it right
there
and what we're going to do now is we're
going to take out our brush oh crystal
colors I'm using both a aqua painter and
a mister and I'm going to start out with
the red right smack in the middle here
and then I'm going to take the yellow
and I'm going to put the yellow all the
way around the edge now I'm also going
to have a paper towel at the ready so to
speak because what really term makes
this nice this nice kind of Calypso
coral color is when I blot the the red
so let's go ahead and spray
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there's our background
okay so let's let this dry oh here's
this one okay I've already done it same
pattern and we're going to go ahead and
put this this card together now to put
this card together you're going to need
a piece of clip so coral and this is
going to be the matting piece at 5 and
1/4 by 4 okay and we're going to need a
piece of the base card is going to be in
in whisper white okay so that's how
we're going to put that together now the
what goes on top and what you should
have already cut out and I've already
cut out simply just to for ease of the
video is a filigree cross out of
champagne foil and a plain cross cut out
of the cross framelit using vellum now
the secret to putting this car together
and I see a little couple little spots
here then I need to poke out the secret
to putting together this card is using
this multi-purpose adhesive sheet as you
can see here this is my my crystal I'm
my champ Ain rather foil on the back I
have laid out this whole piece right
here is a piece of the adhesive sheet
and here I've put a piece and I have
another piece over here so basically you
could take your entire half of a piece
of foil and put your adhesive sheet over
the whole thing instead of piecemealing
it like I did and cut out your your
filigree cross the reason why is it's
going to make it so much easier to
adhere this
any surface that you want instead of
getting into trying to use your fine tip
glue pen or your multi-purpose glue this
very very very easy okay
so having said that what we're going to
do is let's go ahead and put this on our
on our card okay so I have put this on
my card matting right there
I'm now going to take my my cross and
I'm going to peel off my adhesive
backing and this is going to fit very
nicely right here I'm going to kind of
line it up at the top
look how nice that that perfect okay so
this is going to go pushed up on some
dimensionals but as you can see from our
sample what I have here is a piece of
ribbon and this was actually cased from
the from the catalog so the ribbon that
I'm using is going to be the organza
ribbon and I'm going to take a piece of
organza and I'm going to just kind of
zoom in here a little bit so you can see
this and we're going to wrap it around
our cross I'm just going to snip
see I'm just going to snip that there
and I'm going to use a piece of the mini
dimensional I'm going to fold this in
half and I'm going to kind of crease it
with my finger I'm going to grab a mini
dimensional and I'm going to put my mini
dimensional right here in the middle of
my cross now I kind of crease that with
my finger so I kind of see that crease
mark right there see that that's what
I'm going to put right on my mini
dimensional and then I'm going to fold
like that okay
then I'm going to turn this around and
I'm going to put two more
little glue dots rather they're not many
dimensionals to glue dots right there
and I'm going to turn this around and
we're just going to put that there and
we're going to put that there
and if you cut you know however you want
to cut your ribbon that's kind of how I
cut it but if you fold it in half it'll
get it will be even so this is still a
little sticky because you have a glue
dot there and what I'm going to use for
the middle of that is just is is one of
these I think these are metallic
metallic dots and I'm just going to put
that right there okay so they're in
there pretty that's your cross so this
is going to go we're going to put this
up on dimensionals right there and then
I have already I've already cut out the
God is love sentiment and and I used I
embossed this using if I can find it
using Calypso coral embossing powder and
that's how I I am boss that let me kind
of go back a little bit so now let's go
ahead and put our card together
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and there you go and that pretty now for
the inside what I want to stamp is I
want to use I want to use the he is
risen and we're going to use memento
black and I'm just going to stamp that
inside my card
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okay so that takes care of our Easter
card and you can see that this one that
we made just a few minutes earlier is
already dry and I can already put
together that card but now for this card
as I said you are going to need a piece
of whisper white you're going to need a
piece of gold foil and I've cut this at
5 and 1/4 by 4 and then another piece of
whisper white which we are going to I'm
going to emboss and the embossing folder
I use is this one here the layered
leaves dynamic folder that's that's the
piece that we're going to put on here
and this one this piece is at five and
three and one fourths so this is going
to be the basis for our sympathy card
I have also already embossed and cut out
using our stitched framelits the with
sympathy and we're going to go ahead and
put this together the base for our card
is white glimmer paper and I use gold
foil to cut out the the filigree cross
and this is going to go on top of that
again I use the adhesive backing for the
back of this of this card so we're just
going to peel this off it comes off
really nicely and that's trash nice and
sticky I have a little itty-bitty little
piece that's stuck right there which I'm
going to poke out okay and again I'm
simply just going to line this up with
the top of my cross like that and
boom even with the glimmer paper and
using these adhesive multi-purpose
sheets perfect it fits nicely no messy
glue and we're ready to put this on our
card the other piece that we need for
this card is I'm using a piece of this
metallic edged ribbon to add as you can
see from our sample here which is going
to be just a really nice accent so let's
go ahead and add that
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and there we go there's our our base and
then we're gonna put our cross and then
we can have our with sympathy right
there
okay that pretty now one of the things
that like I said those itty-bitty little
little pieces I'm going to take this
little piece right here that came out of
that little framelit because it is gold
I am going to use this inside my inside
my my card the other option that you
have is that you can use this on the
outside of your of your cup of your
cross you can't again because you use
the adhesive backing it will it will go
really nicely right there so let's go
ahead and get my dimensionals and put
this piece on
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now I'm going to take this flourishing
phrases I'm going to take the comfort
and healing to you sentiment I just okay
I'm going to take my momento ich just
just that yeah
and then we're going to take this
itty-bitty little cross
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and I'm going to put this indie video
across right there
it's comfort and healing to you and that
beautiful okay so now we have both our
we have both our cards the last thing
that I want to do is we're going to take
the envelope that we're going to send
this card in and what I'm going to do is
I'm going to take our embossing folder
and I'm going to emboss this flap here
okay so I have embossed the back of this
envelope and this is what I'm going to
send my sympathy card in isn't that just
beautiful matches the front and for this
card here I have taken some of the DSP
from the occasions catalog I believe
this is the the coke one it'll be an LV
in my comments because that is Calypso
coral and that matches beautiful
beautifully with that so there you go
some beautiful cards that you can make
with the hold on to hope stamp set and
not only an Easter card beautiful Easter
card but a very very nice and tasteful
sympathy card so this is cat Chancellor
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