Recently, a friend of mine sadly lost someone close to her.  I wanted to let her know I was thinking of her and thought a card using the dove image from Strength & Prayers would be perfect for this.

I watercoloured my background on shimmery white cardstock, using the colours perfect plum, rich razzleberry, pacific point & mint macaron.  I then decided to use the stunning copper embossing powder for my dove and sentiment for a touch of elegance.  I took the sentiment from Heartfelt Sympathy stamp set and copper embossed this directly onto my card front.  Once embossed, I fussy cut my dove out and tied some thick whisper white baker’s twine around the card front.  I then popped my dove up on dimensionals and scattered a few pearls before applying my card front to a rich razzleberry mat (leaving just a fine border showing), and finally attached this to a whisper white card base.