Tender Thoughts

 Hello Friends! 

Welcome to day 3 of our November feature Blog Hops!  

Today we're featuring Korin's beautiful new Tender Thoughts stamp set, coordinating dies, and Sympathy Innies stamp set.

This is such a fabulous set; I love it!  It is so versatile-it is great for Christmas cards, masculine cards, vacation/camping themed scrapbook pages, and, as Korin has paired it with sympathy sentiments, obviously it is wonderful for sympathy cards as well.  If you are a back to nature gal (or guy), this is a must have set! 

 This card came about through trial and error.  The initial idea was there, I just had to find the right way to execute it!  :) The background kraft paper base was first spritzed with Mister Huey's white ink, then the tree image was stamped in Versamark and clear embossed.  I made a rectangle frame and popped that up on the card base with dimensionals.  I again stamped the trees with versamark and this time embossed them with white ep and die cut them out with the matching die.  I stamped and die cut out the deer as well.  The deer was popped up on the card base with dimensionals; a portion of the white trees were adhered to the top of the brown frame.  Birds were stamped in red and fussy cut out.  I free handed my snowy forest floor, stamped the sentiment from the Christmas Joy Stamp Set to the lower left hand corner and adhered this to the bottom of the card.  

I am entering this card in Great Impression's November Challenge, with the theme of 'Holiday Card or Tag'.  

I kept this card simple, stamping the images in black and then sponging on the color for a sunset.  I used one of the coordinating sentiments and stamped it on the scalloped border. I added one die cut leaf and a couple of black pearls for a finished look.

 

• Stamp set includes 7 images and 3 sentiments
• Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
• The birch trees measure approximately 3 3/4" X 3 3/4" 
• The deer measures approximately 1 3/4" x 2"
• Designed by Korin Sutherland
• Stamp set - $15 
• Die set-$25.75 
• Get the bundle for just $36 a ($40.75 value)

Next up, some heartfelt sympathy sentiments.  Sadly, I need these all too often.  I sponged a beautiful leafy image on my white cs and then overstamped that with the sentiment.  I used my go-to stamp set, New Beginnings, to add a couple of butterflies.  I used the matching New Beginnings dies-I love how much depth you get by die cutting the butterflies out.  I used the Scalloped Border Die again here, spritzed a little color and added a bow to finish it off.

• Stamp set includes 7 sentiments
• Set measures approximately 4" x 6"
• The sentiments range approximately from 2" to 3" 
• Designed by Korin Sutherland
• Stamp set - $15

Check out some of the fabulous samples made by our talented DT in the thumbnails below.

Be sure to leave a comment of each of the blogs along your journey because we're giving away (6) $15 store credits (1 winner will be chosen from each of the 6 blog hops).

The deadline to comment for a chance to win is midnight EST Friday, November 15th.  The list of winners will be announced on our website homepage by Monday, November 18th.

Thanks so much for joining us!  Enjoy the hop!

Lee Ann  :)

Supplies Used
Blanketed Forest-
Stamps- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps -Tender Thoughts,  Christmas Joy
Paper- Neenah Solar White, SU Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
 Ink- Versamark, Early Espresso, Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
Other- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps matching Tender Thoughts Dies, Clear ep, white ep, dimensionals,  Mister Huey Spray (white)

Tender Thoughts Sunset-
Stamps- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Tender Thoughts
Paper- SU Basic Black, Neenah Solar White, SU So Saffron
Ink- Versafine Black. So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Midnight Muse
Other-Scalloped Border dies, Little Leaves Dies, black pearls

Sympathy Butterflies-
Stamps- Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Sympathy Innies, New Beginnings
Paper-SU Early Espresso, River Rock, Blushing Bride,  Neenah Solar White
Ink- River Rock, Memento Tuxedo Black,
Other- New Beginnings Dies,  Scalloped Border Dies, SU color Spritzer, Copics, SU Chocolate Chip marker, Decor-Art stencil