Welcome to my second card today, and I won’t apologise for it being another Easter themed one as it is Good Friday. Now we have a very interesting challenge at As You See It courtesy of my design team buddy Heather, who wants to see us using those retired or discontinued craft tools that we won’t part with. I may have pushed the boundary a bit, but I went with a stamp I bought from Clarity Crafts back in the day when I hadn’t been crafting very long and that’s no longer available. I love this little Easter stained glass window stamp and I use it on my cards most years.
I decided to put one of the new landscape toppers & tags to use – these little tags are just 2.5″ x 3″ and the perfect size for my image, which I stamped in black Archival ink. I shaded in the frame and the trees with Pergaliner pencils, also adding a little shadow below the three crosses on the horizon. The sentiment is from Clarity’s essential sentiments set.
I then spent some time trying to decide how to mount it…! I spotted that the colours on a piece of the Toscana designer card worked well against the tag, so trimmed it down to fit on an A6 card blank and simply glued the tag in place.
Now I promised you an further update on my plans for today in this morning’s post. Well, I’m spending the afternoon with friends in central London at Trafalgar Square – we’ll be watching the Passion Play being staged there, which is a re-enactment of the events surrounding Christ’s crucifixion. I’ve never been before and am fascinated to see it.
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A very beautiful Easter card! Love the layers of colors and your window image! Wishes of a lovely Easter weekend friend!
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thanks so much! Hope you have an Easter filled with blessings too!
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So beautiful! Happy Easter weekend, and I hope you really enjoy the re-enactment with your friends!
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Thanks Leslie – it was an amazing afternoon! Hope your Easter is filled with blessings!
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Lovely Easter card and the colours are just right for the window. Hope you enjoyed your Passion Play.
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It was an amazing experience!
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That is a real beauty of a stamp. No wonder you want to keep it. It’s always nice, I think, to be pairing up old favourites with new things too.
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I do love this stamp – it gets used most years!
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Hope you had a good time in London. And this is a beautiful use of the old stamp
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thanks Catherine – it was an amazing afternoon!
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I can see why you want to keep this little stamp! It’s thoughtful and meaningful and the way you created the background for it is amazing!
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thank you!
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It’s rare to find a good Easter stamp, so I can see why you’d want to hang on to this one! I love your two beautiful backgrounds here, the blended alcohol inks and that lovely soft pastel landscape! This is such a pretty card, Deborah!
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thanks so much Heather x
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That stained glass window is so perfect for Easter Deborah – I’m not surprised you’re keen to hold onto if. Love it combined with your tag too.
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thanks Joanne x
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