Thank You Card- Inside and Out

Hello Everyone! Today I’m going to do one of my signature posts which show you the front and inside of a card I made. I’m going to be entering this one in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge called Layer It Up, featuring Concord & 9th stamps (another one of my favourite stamp companies).

I started off using Concord & 9th’s Triangle Turnabout Stamp for the blue background. I used Starlight, Persian Blue, Sapphire and Caribbean Sky Altenew dye inks for the colours. I also heat embossed with Ranger Silver Pearl embossing powder over the sapphire triangles. I was just experimenting there... not really sure where I was going with it. I then die cut the center out of the patterned paper. I know most people would use this cut out on another card, but I like to tie in my front and inside of the card with cut outs like this (I’ll get to this later). I used the espresso and walnut colours of distress ink to create a brown background on a panel of card stock with a blending sponge. I then flicked some water on it to get the water droplet effect. Once dry, I stamped and heat embossed with Ranger white powder, the ‘thank you’ sentiment from the Concord & 9th Flower Turnabout Stamp set. I liked this sentiment because unlike all others I was searching through, I found it was small enough to fit on my card. This is to go in the opening that I cut out of the triangle patterned paper made earlier.

I used the Altenew Build-A-Flower Carnation stamp set to stamp out a couple carnations, leaves and floral pieces using Rose Quarts, Pink Diamond, Blush and Cotton Candy Altenew inks. I die cut these out to place on the card front and inside. I tried to put my card together, placing the die cuts around the die cut triangle background cut out but felt like something was missing. So I drew an outline with a Versamark marker around the inside die cut area and heat embossed it with Ranger copper powder. I also added some copper washi tape around the edges of the card backing. I then attached the brown background with the sentiment to the patterned apparently and attached this full panel to the card backing with foam tape to add dimension. I finally arranged and attached the diecut carnation, leaves and flower elements.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card. I continued the brown walnut and espresso on the inside with the blending sponge again. I also added the diecut piece from the front triangle background to the left panel of the inside. And just like the front I arranged the die cut elements. I left the right side of the card blank but felt it needed something, so I added some heat embossing in Ranger copper powder. I used the flower elements from the same Altenew stamp set. And there you have it!!

Once again I hope you all like that I’m showing how I put together the insides of my cards too. I really feel like it deserves as much attention as the front and I, personally, hate leaving them plain.

As always... thanks for viewing!