You Inspire Me | Trinity Stamps

Hi there, I hope you had great weekend!

Today I’ve got a project that I shared over on Instagram last week.  It started as a focal point for an A2-sized card but as I got into it, I decided to turn it into a heart-shaped card.  I think it would also be cute to put into a small box frame to gift to a craft friend.  So many possibilities!

I started by creating an ink-blended rainbow on an A2-sized piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock using four Distress Inks (Candied Apple, Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean, and Seedless Preserves).  I used foam blending tools to blend on the red and yellow, overlapping them slightly to create a band of orange.  Then I added a strip of blue, blending it into the yellow to great a band of green.  Last, I blended in the purple, overlapping it a bit with the blue to create a darker blue.

Next, I stamped the A Crafter’s Heart stamp from Trinity Stamps over the panel in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.  I set aside the panel to let it dry since bristol smooth paper has a coating that lets inks sit on the surface of the paper for longer than regular cardstock.

I prepared the sentiment by using white Hero Arts embossing powder to heat emboss “You inspired me,” from the same stamp set, onto a strip of black cardstock.

When the panel was dry, I used the Nested Hearts die set to die cut it.  This four-piece die set comes with the dies connected.  Rather than cutting them apart, I ran my panel through my die cutting machine with the dies still connected. This gave me four pieces of my ink-blended heart.  I ran the dies through my machine five more times with scrap white cardstock so that I would have extra pieces to layer.

To assemble the card, I layered and adhered five of the largest white cardstock hearts together, and then adhered the rainbow die cut on top of it.  For the next smallest layer, I layered and adhered three of the white cardstock hearts, and again topped it off with the rainbow die cut.  The third smallest heart is one white cardstock layer and 1 rainbow layer.  And the center heart is just the rainbow layer.  I nested them together and then put scotch tape on the back to hold it all together.  I adhered the sentiment with foam tape.

Next I snipped the heart dies apart and used the largest die twice, on white cardstock.  I adhered one piece to the back of the rainbow piece. I scored the other piece about a half inch from the top of the heart so that I could create a card base.  I adhered the small area above the score line to the back of the rainbow piece and the score line became the fold, or hinge, of the card.

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