Fresh Vintage for Easter

It's my last slot this week as Guest Designer at Make My Monday.  This week is the final instalment of their 'Spring' challenges and it's 'New Beginnings' time... think Easter, new baby, new house...  It's been a privilege to have been GDT with MMM this month so a big thank you to Jacqueline and her design team for having me!

I decided to make an Easter card even though I don't have any Easter stamps yet!  Maybe it was the heat this weekend but I also decided to have another go with my brayer.  (My brayer and I don't have the greatest relationship!)  I did the classic torn paper mountains thing, brayering them with Soft Suede ink.  I then covered the mountains and brayered the sky in So Saffron, masking the sun with a 1" circle mask cut out of a post-it note.  I added a little bit of So Saffron ink to the sun so it didn't look so stark.  I then made another mask of a cross, and stamped through in Basic Black ink with the bloom from Fresh Vintage.

This panel was mounted on some scrap textured card stock in Chocolate Chip.  Originally I thought black would work better to match the cross but it looked too much of a contrast with the sky and mountains.  To finish, I added a panel of So Saffron card stock, embossed with the stunning lattice embossing folder (my new favourite embossing folder!).

Supplies
Stamps: Fresh Vintage
Inks: Soft Suede So Saffron, Basic Black
Card: So Saffron, Whisper White, textured Chocolate Chip
Other: brayer, 1" circle punch, lattice embossing folder

Edited to add: I added in an inked black semi-circle to 'ground' the cross a bit more than in these photos.

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After church yesterday we went for a bike ride, exploring further up the valley from our village.  We enjoyed gorgeous sunshine and stunning views.  Unfortunately when cycling away from a water stop, I turned around to do my usual paranoia check to see that we hadn't dropped anything and I managed to veer into a hedge.  And it was a hawthorn hedge.  My left arm is now a fine example of cuts and scrapes!  I felt like a small child on getting home when I had to rub Germolene into them all!!

Thank you for visiting today,