Care & Comfort - Taylored Expressions

Hi all! Hope you've been having a Super weekend so far! ;-) Well I thought I'd pop in real quick today to share my latest Taylored Expressions creation featuring TE's Lasting Impressions Care & Comfort Stamp set.  Some of the Hardest cards we Crafty People have need to make are Sympathy cards... And let me tell you, I dread the need of these cards, but have learned thru the years that it's better to have couple on hand than have to attempt to rush & make one at the last minute, when your heart may be a bit heavy... So, that being said, I was Truly Grateful for this Gem of a stamp set with it's many Wonderfully Supportive & Heartfelt sentiments...

A while back our very own Taylor VanBruggen shared her Beautiful Easter cards HERE that feature a Super fun Reverse Masking technique she created with a couple of the Sweet Silhouette Stems Dies & the Posh Posies Stamp set.. I had been wanting to give her fun technique a whirl for a while now, and thought these Sweet flowers would make a really Lovely focal image for my CAS cards today...  

Following Taylor's Fab how to's, I arranged the two stems and die cut them in order to use the reverse cutout as a mask. With the mask in place I stamped the dandelion image from TE's Posh Posies Stamp set  inside the flowers in Wild Honey Distress ink. Then with the mask still in place I used a sponge dauber to sponge Yellow Ochre Colorbox ink inside the flowers & sponged the stems with Olive Pastel Colorbox ink.  I stamped my Care & Comfort Sentiment directly onto my Focal image panel with Memento Rich Cocoa and added a touch of shading with Wild Honey Distress ink to all my edges.. My Mats & BG Layers were created with Choice Buttercream CS, Bazzill CS and dp's from MME's Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks 6x6 collection.. 

For my Lavender Version, I did everything just the same, but used Dusty Concord Distress ink & Grape Slushy Colorbox ink for my flowers. I chose a different Care & Comfort Sentiment, stamped with Dusty Concord Distress Ink that I also used for shading all my edges as well. my Mats & BG layers were also created with MME's Miss Caroline Fiddlesticks 6x6 collection but with Heidi Bazzil CS instead...8-)

Here are the items I used for my projects today...

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Hope you all have a Fantastic day & Thanks so much for dropping by... 8-)