Joy Comes in the Morning

 

Hi friends! It's Julee popping in with a bit of paper sunshine for your Wednesday! When I was playing around with the new stencils in the shop the other day for a different card, I had this panel left over that was a "clean-up" page for my Grunge Dots Stencil with pinks and yellows. I loved the look of it, so decided to  cut it down for a card and start playing some more.  First I grabbed the Rise & Shine Stencil and used some neon yellow glitter paste to add the sun.  The glimmer was super hard to capture in the photograph, but has such great dimension and shine in real life.  I then embossed the clouds from Texture Tiles 10 onto the top of the panel in white and filled in with some nuvo drops.

I embossed the sentiment from Be Encouraged onto a white strip of cardstock, then lined up where I wanted it to figure out where to add the stencil so it looks like it's continuing the sunshine pattern.  The flower is from the Alleluia Lilies set, which I colored with a mix of dye inks, a waterbrush, then added a few accents with Copics and a white gel pen.  I added a bit of brown ink for a little grunginess to the panel.

The card background was my first attempt at using a stencil to emboss a background in my die cut machine.  I used the Grunge Dots stencil and ran through with an embossing mat to get a nice texture to the paper, then I blended with brown and pink inks to continue that grunge look.  Such a fun mix of products in this release!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a joyful day!

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