CAS card using repetitive pattern

This card is a far cry from the multilayered roses in a Victorian garden card I made two posts ago. Granted, a skeletal human spine and brain are not usual thank you card images. Does it clarify things if I tell you this is a thank you card that I plan on giving my neurosurgeon(s) at my next appointment.? Thought so.

Within this last year, I had two serious spinal neurosurgeries. They were both myelopathy emergencies and I was quite ill by the time I was taken to surgery. The good news is that I have regained abilities with my hands for the most part and my doctors arrested the spinal compression that was causing me to lose my balance and that would eventually paralyze, then kill me. 

I am still trying to walk and hope the end of the year will see me getting around without a wheelchair or walker. But even if I stay as I am now, I am so very, very grateful to the neurosurgery department of Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Florida for saving my life and giving me back much of my abilities. 

I will see my main spinal neurosurgeon later this month for my nine month follow up. I am tickled to be able to give him this card. Hopefully, he will smile as he sees my colorful renditions of spines and brains; remembering all the macabre images he had to look at in the course of my treatment. It is especially poignant for me to give him this card as I remember so clearly lying on a gurney and asking him to "save my hands". I told him I was an artist and that I would rather live with a wheelchair than live without being able to create with my hands. And that is what he did. I am sure the significance of a handmade card will not be lost on him.

Supplies:

• White card stock
• Altenew Green Meadows gradient cardstock set 3X6"
• Altenew Permanent Black pigment ink
• Rubber stamps of anatomy
• Staedtler watercolor pencils
• Altenew Label Love stamps
  
  
  

1.Select one (one is best, but in my case I really wanted both images) image that you will stamp across the front of your card in a pleasing pattern.

2. Play with adding colorful accents with your chosen paint medium. I chose watercolor.

3. Cut a strip of accent color card stock to serve as a banner across the front.

4. Stamp your sentiment on the strip.

5. Glue the cardstock strip down.

This simple design makes a statement despite its humble methods. Patterning an image all over the front of the card which holds meaning for the receiver, makes this a very personal type of card. Best of all, it is quick and easy!