Peace & Comfort

It is time for our first encouragement challenge of the new year 

Our challenge is to use the inspiration photo below to create a card to send someone a word of encouragement as they go through a struggle. It doesn't have to be cancer it can be for someone who has lost someone, lost a job, or just needs a word of encouragement. The real challenge is will you mail it? I love to go to the mailbox and find happy mail instead of or with the bills, always makes my heart happy. oh and  There is a prize involved as well, a $25 voucher to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and if you use CAS-ual Fridays products and are the winner it will increase to $50

here is the inspiration photo

To make my card I started with a top folding white card base and a watercolor paper panel cut down with a stitched die. To make the background I used Distress Oxide inks in Iced Spruce, Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean by rubbing them directly on my craft mat, spraying them with water and picking them up until I achieved the look that I wanted. I stamped the greeting with Versamark ink and embossed it first in silver but it didn't show uo enough so I reinked it and embossed it with black.

This card has already been mailed to a childhood friend that is dying and I pray she is comforted by it.