Grow Through What You Go Through

I am up on the Picket Fence Studios blog today with this card using the Ponchatoula Strawberries set from our April release. 

Picket Fence has become now for their large images and this one does not disappoint. I love that it has coordinating dies. The greeting I used is from the Face The Sun stamp set also a large image from our April release. 

This greeting is so appropriate for what we are currently going through as a nation and as a world, but it is also appropriate for me. Today marks the one year anniversary of one of my older brothers committing suicide. Your world changes when the word suicide enters your vocabulary as a reality. You have to grow through what you go through, since my brothers death I have become an advocate for the suicide prevention hotline. With the COVID-19 the suicide rate is predicted to go up due to no jobs and the overwhelming responsibilities. 

I pray that if any of you ever contemplate suicide you will call the number

1-800-273-8255 

Now for details of my card. I started with a black top folding card base and a panel of bristol card stock. I stamped the image from the Ponchatoula Strawberries set on the bristol and colored it using Karin Markers, these markers blend beautifully on bristol.

After I got the image all colored I used the Coordinating dies to cut it out and added it to the card front using foam tape but before I did that I stamped the greeting from the Face the Sun set and embossed it in white. I just love how it all pops on the black card base. 

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Stay home and Stay Safe