Everybody likes to receive thank you cards because it shows they're appreciated. Handmade cards make the recipient feel even more appreciated, so this article is all about making your own cards with thank you rubber stamps.
There are a lot of different thank you rubber stamps you can get out there. From plain text ones in a variety of fonts, right through to ones with pictures of animals holding a card with the sentiment written on it. There are even ones with a thank you phrase written in a large swirl. All you have to do is pick the one that most appeals to you.
To make a nice card, you want the words "Thank You" to be the focal point of the card, or at least a large part of it. So you'll want a fairly large stamp to accomplish this.
You'll need a blank card base and the usual basic card making supplies to make your card. For this design you're going to take some plain, dark colored paper for the background. Ink your thank you stamp with clear Versamark ink and stamp it in a repeating pattern over your dark paper. Sprinkle the whole thing with clear embossing powder and heat it to make the powder rise. This will give you a watermark looking background for your card that subtly says 'thanks'.
The next step is to choose some beautiful patterned paper to stick as the next layer on top of your background. Make sure you don't cover too much, so you can still see the subtle thank yous on the background. Select a piece of plain colored card to go with the other paper you've used and this will be the place you stamp your thank you onto.
Taking this piece of card, ink your stamp in gold or silver ink (whichever goes best with your papers) and stamp in onto the card. Sprinkle more clear embossing powder onto it and heat it to raise the ink. With a pair of decorative edged scissors, cut around the edge of your piece of card so the whole thing is smaller than your patterned paper.
Stick a small dried flower or several flowers with the stems onto the card. Then attach your "thank you" topper to your card with 3D foam mounting blocks so the flowers are coming out from behind the topper. If you don't have any dried flowers, take some craft wire and curl it tightly, then pull the ends so you have a long flatten spring. You can stick flower cut outs onto the ends of these so they bounce around when the card moves.
That's all there is to your Thank You card. Simply write your greetings inside.
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