A Pair of Sympathy Cards

I needed two sympathy cards - one feminine and one masculine. I used this week's Color Throwdown #162 colors (Pool Party, Barely Banana, Creamy Caramel and Early Espresso) for my palette and made both cards using My Mind's Eye's Stella and Rose - Hattie collection.

The Tulip stamp on the first card is from The Angel Company and the Many Tears (SD021) sentiment on the second card is from Stamp Camp - this is one of my all time favorite sympathy sentiments (you can click on the photo to see it larger).

The layout I used for both cards is based on this month's Sketch for you to Try.

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RI Sketch Challenge - Some Days Flutter By

We are starting a new two week sketch challenge over at The House That Stamps Built! For my sample card, I have used the Butterfly (sm.) (9009-F) and Flutter By sentiment (9005-E) from this summer's new stamp series. The papers are from the DCWV Mariposa collection.  I modified the sketch a little by letting the butterfly on the patterned paper take the place of the circle on the right side of the focal panel.

Please be sure to check out the details for playing along with us over at The House That Stamps Built, and while you are there, take a look at the great cards the rest of the team has made using the sketch!

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Crafty Birthday (CTD92, SC280)

This week one of my Krafty Kat friends is having a birthday, so I pulled out my Papertrey Ink Studio Style set and my new October Afternoon Thrift Shop papers and whipped up this little gem.  The color scheme is from last week's Color Throwdown #92.  The challenge colors were Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Old Olive and Kraft.  I had originally intended to use a Kraft card base, then completely forgot it was one of the colors and used Old Olive.  Hopefully the lid on the button jar will count!   It was colored with a gold Spica glitter pen.

I used last week's sketch from Splitcoast Stampers for my layout.   I made the ruffled flower using two of the smallest sizes of my Big Scalloped Circles Nestabilities dies and a yellow rhinestone brad.  I inked the edges of each layer of the flower with So Saffron ink.

I stamped the button jar and ribbon spool images and cut them out, then colored them each with Copic markers.  I added a layer of Glossy Accents to the button jar to make it look like glass.

When I adhered the main image panel to the card, I realized that I had placed it higher up than I had intended, which left more of the yellow panel exposed than I wanted, so that's how the little button treatment in the bottom right corner was born!

I used two of the sentiments from the set on the inside, along with a few scraps leftover from the front.


For the envelope, I used the leftover negative spaces from the layers behind the main image on the front of the card and added some self-adhesive rhinestones to each of the corners.   With all the scraps I used, I probably should have signed the card to the Crafty Girl from the Thrifty Girl!

Happy Birthday, Sue!  Hope it's a good one!!

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Happy Birthday Wreath

Happy Monday! Hope you had a nice weekend!

This is a card I made last week for two challenges - Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Sketch Challenge (FTTC58) and Color Throwdown's color challenge (CTD84) to use Taken with Teal, Black, Soft Sky and Tangerine Tango.

The wreath, bow and sentiment stamps are all from Flourishes (Seasonal Wreaths and Tag Lines).  The patterned papers are from BoBunny's Kitchen Spice collection.  The wreath was colored with Copic markers (YR00, YR02, YR04, BG0000, BG01 and BG05) and sponged with Versamagic Sea Breeze ink. 

The bow was stamped using Taken with Teal ink, cut out and adhered to the wreath with an American Crafts jeweled brad.  The flowers were white flowers  from Petaloo that I colored with the same Copic Markers.  The corners looked a little bare, so I added some paper piercing.

That's about it! 

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