Hello friends. I did warn you yesterday that I’d got one last card to share with you (for now!) using Clarity’s spring build-a-wreath stamp set, so here it is for the new theme at Alphabet Challenge. We’re back at the start of our letter themes again and Helen has chosen A for Alphabet, which is very fitting! There is a slight twist though, as we want you to choose your own letter of the alphabet and go with a theme that showcases it. Hopefully you’ve worked out by now that I went with E for Easter, adding in the colours from Creative Colour Challenges!

So, no wreath today as I went with a cross shape for Good Friday. I started with pencil guidelines for the cross on one of Clarity’s 3.5″ squares of stencil card and stamped ‘Easter’ in cobalt Archival ink using the potted plants Alphabet stamps.

Next was to stamp two of the leafy images along the outline of the cross using ‘rustic wilderness’ Distress Oxide – I did one of the leaf stamps straight from the ink pad and the other in second generation so there was a bit of contrast between them.

I stamped few flowers on the cross with one of the little images in ‘picked raspberry’ Distress Oxide, then spotted the tiny oval dotted images in the set so aded those in the ‘cobalt’ Archival. Once the ink was fully dry I rubbed out the pencil lines, then added a mount of navy card and attached the topper to a 5×5 card blank.

Good Friday is probably the most solemn day in the Christian calendar as we commemorate Christ’s crucifixion and death on the cross. I’ll be heading to church for a service of meditation later, but I’ve also got another card to share with you this afternoon and a bit more on my plans for the rest of the day…