Two lessons from one card.

I needed a sympathy card for a coworker- to be signed by a bunch of us at work- so it needed to be 5x7. This was extra challenging, since sympathy cards are typically hard to make and 5x7s are not generally my thing. I did have a master layouts from Gina K for a 5x7 frame. So I decided to keep it simple by using the frame, my old trees from stamping up and just simply blending behind them. I Inc blended two backgrounds first and on one I used an orange to indicate the sun on the other I did not. Just looking at the blended backgrounds before I stamped the trees. I definitely preferred the one without the orange. then, when the trees were stamped, it looked very different! I preferred the one with the orange. At first, I decided to pop up the frame, but I got kind of cheap with my foam tape. Big mistake! A rookie mistake that I should have known better, especially since the frame was pattern paper, which is a little thinner. Here are the two cards, and you can see how the frame turned out bumpy so on the second one (which has the orange) I simply glued it flat. TLDRm 1- blending looks different after you stamp 2 thin paper needs a lot of support with foam tape!