Card Making: Finding Peace

In today's blog, we are going on a journey of inner healing when making this very special card for a friend. The purpose of this card is to support a friend who is temporarily struggling in dealing with life, to show that we are there to support them. We do a number of fun things when creating this card, chief of which is to decoupage with used teabags!

We start the card on one of these index cards.

I have already dried and emptied out some used teabags. I will use Dala Acrylic Gel Medium to decoupage with.

I lather the card with the Gel Medium.

Then I layer the teabags on the card, one at a time. Each time, I paint a layer of Gel Medium over the newly added teabag.

Once all the spaces are filled up, I give it a chance to dry.

Once dry, I crop the overhanging edges.

I then draw a map to find inner peace, using a Pigma Brush tip pen.

I mount some acrylic clear stamps on a Chiswick stamp block and use a Ranger Adirondack stamp pad to stamp some images onto the map.

I add a hand drawn frame with a Neon Color Pen.

I colour the stamped images with Giotto markers.

The index card is now ready to go onto the card.

I find a pink coordinating A4 sheet of cardboard.

I fold the cardboard in half with a bone folder, to create the card.

I find matting paper in my Reflections paper pad.

I crop the matting paper to size, using a Dala Craft Knife and metal ruler.

I use double-sided tape to layer the pieces together.

I stick down a Washi Tape border.

I trim the overhanging edges.

I add an interesting old stamp as an embellishment.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/odlTRoeyEno

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