Life Support

 Anyone else been struggling with their MOJO lately?  Post-Christmas exhaustion and dark, dismal days always tend to get me down at this time of the year but add a pandemic to the mix and ... well I just felt like the light at the end of the tunnel had been switched off!  

When a friend of mine saw a previous card I had made with the SugarCut Heart Beat and asked if I could make up something similar in green I jumped at the chance to make something to kickstart Mr. Mojo!  She explained that she wanted a Valentine's Card for a friend of hers who has helped her get through the lockdown with weekly G & T Zoom meetings!  After making up the heartbeat border,  I went through all my stamps and realised that I didn't have anything which would work as a sentiment but  "Life Support" popped into my head (which she loved) so I made up a banner using Word Art.   I noticed this cocktail stamp in a new set of beach/ocean related stamp set I got for Christmas and thought it might work well for this G&T loving friend's card!  

As you can see the heartbeats have been layered up.  It can be devilishly tricky to work with fine die cuts like this but if they are layered up they're less likely to "stretch" out of shape.  As I said, the banner sentiment was created using Word Art (a green Text box with a white typewriter font) then cut with the smallest Crealies Stitched Rectangle Die (I don't know what I would do without this set).  I stamped the cocktail directly on the card front and again on another piece of white card.    I then cut out just the glass from this extra copy, coloured it, coated it with glossy accents and placed it over the other image.

I added some gold to the gin and tonic and also to the sentiment and heartbeat while the glossy accents was drying!

I'm entering my card in Just Add Ink Challenge #539 (heartbeat border and the sentiment banner)

Also  Challenge #190 at Addicted to CAS  where the prompt is Pattern

I'm also entering the following challenges

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge for January

Pixie's Snippet's Challenge #395

NBUS Challenge #22

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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Hugs and stay safe,

Kate