Sympathy Card

I was in need of a sympathy card and an image for it.   After reading Joan's post, I removed this very same StampinUp set from my "die" pile and used it here. 

The shading around the flowered rectangle came about because it appears that silver Krylon pen (you know how I love my Krylon pens) can still smudge on certain papers even when left to dry overnight.  So a quick fix was to chalk all around it with purple pearlescent chalks.

I'm hoping this close-up gives a better look at the sparkle in the stamped image and background paper which is what really makes the card.

I guess this stamp set has a reprieve from the "die" pile!

Sympathy Card

A sympathy card I made yesterday for a friend.   Since it was late I could only scan it so you can't tell that it opens at the curved edge and that the front of the card runs a little shorter than the back page.

Sympathy

I've made more sympathy cards in the last month than I have in a long time, and unfortunately I had need for another one. This one I put together very simply with some monochromatic tulips from Art Impressions, some vintage paper scraps from Hot off the Press, and then sentiments from PaperTrey and StampinUp. It was one of those cards that I kept thinking I should add one more element to it, but finally decided to just keep is simple.

Sympathy

Sadly, I needed a bunch of sympathy cards this week, so I created this one which is a variation of a card I showed earlier. Really helps to have some ideas on hand when you need cards quickly.

Today is the day for a sympathy card. I made this one from a piece I found in my stash of things I accumulate when I feel like stamping, but not making a card. When I'm out of inspiration I will look in there to find somethign to create a card with. Other times I will look at my paper and see what inspires me. Or maybe even my box of ribbon. In this case it was the collage from StampinUp which I had stamped on alcohol inks. I added that to some background paper I had embossed with my Cuttlebug (Divine Swirls). The sentiment is from Rubber Stampede.