We’ll Get Through This Together with Soaring Swallows

I love that a card can grow from a little seed of an idea into a mature, beautiful card. I needed to make the card I’m sharing with you today, and I wasn’t sure where to start. This week’s Freshly Made Sketches layout gave me the perfect inspiration for the card, and I’m grateful for the kick-start. Here’s my card:

And here’s the banner for Kim Singdahlsen’s challenge that inspired my card:

I bought the Soaring Swallows bundle for two reasons – I love the sentiments in the set and the birds that can built with just cutouts of cardstock. I’ve featured none of these on today’s card – but I did play with other elements from the bundle that I completely overlooked. Here’s a look a the Soaring Swallows Bundle:

I had not even seen the flowering branch in the set before I made the card I shared today. It was so easy to build this branch – and can we please talk about how gorgeous is it?!

I used the sentiment frame from the Swallows Dies (above) to crop the “We’ll Get Through This Together” sentiment from the Here Together Bundle. While the die was designed to cut several of the sentiments in the Soaring Swallows set, it’s almost like it was made for this sentiment, too! Here’s a look at the Here Together Bundle, which is a limited-time release that goes away on May 2 (or when supplies run out):

I’m no color scientist, but I’ve heard that yellow is a great color for sympathy cards – it’s soothing and also uplifting. I wasn’t intending to add the green branch or pink flowers at the start of this card, but it works so well with the other soft colors in this project. If you like the beautiful mix of So Saffron, Balmy Blue and Old Olive as much as I do, I hope you’ll save this for future reference:

Stamp Sets: Soaring Swallows, Watercolor Shapes, Here Together  Papers: Balmy Blue, So Saffron, Old Olive, Blushing Bride, Thick Basic White  Inks: So Saffron, Balmy Blue, Night of Navy, Memento Tuxedo Black  Accessories: Swallows Dies, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Soaring Swallows Bundle (English) – 157810

Price: $50.25

Watercolor Shapes Photopolymer Stamp Set – 156968

Price: $21.00

Here Together Cling Stamp Set (English) – 158634

Price: $22.00

Balmy Blue 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 146982

Price: $8.75

So Saffron 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 105118

Price: $8.75

Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 100702

Price: $8.75

Blushing Bride 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 131198

Price: $8.75

Basic White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock – 159229

Price: $8.25

So Saffron Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147109

Price: $7.50

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147105

Price: $7.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad – 132708

Price: $6.00

Swallows Dies – 157809

Price: $34.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.00

Here Together Bundle (English) – 160263

Price: $48.50

I hope you’ll pop over to the Freshly Made Sketches site to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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