Painted Mountain Cards: World Mental Health Day Instagram Hop

Friday 9 October 2020

World Mental Health Day Instagram Hop

Hello crafty friends

Your Next Stamp is one of the sponsors for the World Mental Health Day Instagram Hop!

"We believe art helps us to relax and relieve negative emotions, thus helping to maintain mental health. Similar to how physical exercise aids the body, creating art may help to keep the mind sharp and lucid well into old age. It can also cope with stressful and difficult situations you face in everyday life.

We are representing the art of card making via our beautiful cards on the theme 'ART FOR YOUR MIND' "

The Design Team was given the chance to participate by creating a card/project - but that is all the information I got! So - I will direct you to the YNS BLOG and hopefully by the time this posts they will have the information posted there. It is an Instagram Hop, but I won't post on IG for a few hours to see if more information becomes available to the Design Team. I know there is a chance to win a prize from the sponsors.

Onto my card, this was a chance to do something I have wanted to do since I bought the Sweet Hummingbird Stamp set from Your Next Stamp ... gold emboss the flowers around the perimeter of a card! Making a Slimline card gave me lots of room to do this and then I coloured the flowers with Tombow markers and blending pen. It still needed something, so I added some stamping in both first and second generation stamping with the smaller confetti image from Falling Confetti.

It's hard to see in the photos, but I after stamping the 'You Are Amazing' in the dark pink dye ink, I stamped it again with Versamark and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Using a MISTI makes doing things like this SO easy! The Positive Affirmations stamp set has lovely sentiments in it and I get a fair bit of use out of that set.