Art Impressions Thinking of You

As are most of my cards, this one is for Operation Write Home. I often think about the children of our deployed service men and women, and imagine how hard it must be to have their mom or dad gone for months or years and not really understanding why. This little guy made me think about that yet again and inspired this card.

I don't typically do scenics, not that I don't like them, but I don't feel I can do them justice. But this stamp from the Front & Back line at Art Impressions just spoke to me and I had to give it a try.  After stamping the little fella, I colored him with Copics, then cut him out. I then stamped the fence on white card stock and colored it with Copics too.

It seemed like the little guy should be looking at something, so I found a tree stamp from PaperTrey's Through the Trees, and stamped it behind the fence (after masking off the fence ).  Then on a whim I decided to sponge the sky and the grass. A few grass sprigs were stamped for good measure.  Then I popped the boy up on dimensionals, matted the scene with chocolate card stock and adhered it to a yellow card base.

The sentiment was stamped on a piece of ivory stock in chocolate, then I cut the flag end with the edge of a square punch and added it to the scene with dimensionals too.

I hope it captures the heart of some deployed mom or dad who wants to let their guy know they think of him often. And I hope they let him know he's a little hero too.