Paper Players Sketch Challenge

It's been way too long since I played along with The Paper Players challenge! Laurie has a great sketch for us and it was perfect to create a simple sympathy card that I needed for a former nursing supervisor who lost her mother several days ago. 

I played around with some alcohol inks this afternoon and loved the combination of Pool and Sublime inks by Ranger. I added the gold Alloy mixative and blending solution to work it around on Yupo paper.

I really LOVE

this new blending tool and highly recommend it. My preference of paper is by far to use Yupo when I want to blend alcohol inks. I pick some up whenever Mike's has a coupon opportunity - lol!

The sentiment die is by Lil' Inker Designs and has three layers to make it a thicker consistency. The stitched rectangle dies are by My Favorite Things. I used a foam mat with adhesive on one side to "pop" up the alcohol ink panel. I find this is more cost effective than foam tape when I have larger panels to pop up. I get it at Michael's in the poster board and paint section of the store rather than the card making supplies area.

Well...it's raining again here in VA again. Seems like a day rarely passes when it doesn't rain. Hopefully April showers will bring May flowers!                                                ~Wanda