Strength for Today Cards with Angelica

Hello, friends! I am so excited to be joining you today. These past few months have been hectic around my house. We took on a full basement renovation, due to a massive water leak, and I now have a new craft space! Yay! This is the first project I made in my new room, and I love how the cards turned out.

I started with Autumn Crest Stamp + Stencil set for these cards. I was making a gift of 20 cards for my pastor, so I needed to do a project that would be easy to mass produce. What I did first was stencil the leaves onto a panel, lining the stencil up by matching the left bottom corner of the panel with the same stencil corner. Once I finished stenciling, I lined up the branch stamp in my MISTI. Once stamped, I used another MISTI to line up the crest. The last stamp used was a scripture from Strength For Today stamp set. The Distressed Oxide Colors used were: Victorian Velvet, Crushed Olive, Brushed Corduroy, and Vintage Photo.

I now had my assembly line ready to go, and I got to work. I stenciled and stamped right onto card bases, which helped save on cardstock. I made sure to use the left bottom corner as my stencil guide, and the same corner tucked nicely in the left bottom corner of my MISTIs. I had all 20 card bases stamped and stenciled in under an hour. I decided I wanted a little bit more detail on the leaves, so I finished the cards with a few flicks from a matching color pencil. I think the pencil details finished the cards perfectly.

My pastor helped me a lot this past summer. He prayed with me, and did a summer long bible study with me. These cards are a small way for me to give back to him. He sends cards out almost daily to people in the community, and I’m more than happy to start getting his card stash stocked up.