friendship card
- christian greeting cards for those who need encouragement.

I only used two rubber stamps; a flower rubber stamped design and a Christian rubber stamp message - "The joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:40

"The joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:40 is a great encouragement scripture verse to use in Christian handmade cards. This rubber stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

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• 8.5" x 5.75" white cardstock
• cling stamp message: "The Joy of the Lord is your strength." scripture verse - Nehemiah 8:40 by Our Daily Bread Designs
• rubber stamp image: gossamer - 3965K by Penny Black
• Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Water-soluble wax pastels
• watercolor brush
• water
• glitter glue - Ice Stickles (lemon ice) by Ranger Industries, Inc.
• memento fade-resistant dye ink pad - rich cocoa color
• acrylic block
• trimmer

• Trim and fold white cardstock to make a blank card base.
• Ink the gossamer flower rubber stamp with rich cocoa memento ink and stamp on the right front of white card standing horizontally.
• Mount "The joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:40 cling stamp on an acrylic block.
• Ink the scripture message stamp with cocoa memento ink and stamp on the left of white cardstock.
• Pick up colors from the wax pastel with the watercolor brush. Make sure you rinse your brush in between colors.
• Color the image.
• Add glitter glue onto the centre of each flower.

I used bright pink colors on the flowers for this friendship card but you can use another color; for example soft buttercup color or light blue if you want it to be a 'with sympathy card'.

Make a batch of them in different color themes so that you have them ready to use whenever the need for one arises.

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