With Sympathy

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With Sympathy 2

Creating a sympathy card is never easy. Your heart is filled with sadness and you want to convey peace to the recipient. My husband asked me to create a card for a business colleague who suddenly lost his 45 year old son and granddaughter in a tragic car accident. 

I was pleased with the result of this clean and simple card for my husband to send. The Sheltering Tree stamp set is so versatile and perfect for the occasion. The sentiment is from Avery Elle stamps, I love the font.

The card base is 4 1/2" square. I used Watercolor paper for texture. The border is Delightful Dijon and it was popped up on dimensionals. 

Here is the inside of the card:

With Sympathy inside

The leaf was stamped off once and then onto the card. The image is from Vintage Leaves and was stamped in Delightful Dijon. The sentiment is from the Thoughts & Prayers  stamp set. It is a beautiful sentiment.

We can't make sense of such tragic events yet through our creative hands and heartfelt words perhaps we can express love and support to those who are suffering. I hope I inspired you today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

With Sympathy
 

Autumn All Year

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Autumn is my favorite time of year. I know that I am not alone. The cool crisp air is so refreshing after a hot and humid summer. There is so much to love about Autumn; the beauty of changing leaves, yummy caramel apples, warm apple cider and pumpkin spice everything. So I want Autumn All Year. Alright I guess that is not such a great idea.  

Autumn All Year

And I am entering my card in the Paper Players Challenge this week.

PP challenge
My card celebrates Autumn using the sentiment from Cheer All Year. I stamped the large maple leaf first then using the Leaf Framelits cut out the same leaf from a Post-it to mask the leaf. Then I stamped the other two leaves. The masking gives the card depth.

 The Delightful Dijon base and Bohemian DSP frame the focal point.

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

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A Flurry of Wishes

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A quick post for the Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge. This card really evolved as I worked on it. 

Sending you a Flurry of Wishes

Here is the sketch:

PPA 273 Oct 27When I looked at the sketch I saw the square in the middle followed by two half circles. I thought the snowflakes could emulate the half circles. At first I stamped Soft Sky on Whisper White but it looked to washed out against the Night of Navy Label Framelit. So I stamped Soft Sky on Soft Sky card stock and it stands out nicely on the Night of Navy.

The sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy and then cropped with the Squares Framelits (3rd from the center). Then I added a frame of Soft Sky card stock 1/4" larger. I used Dazzling Details and painted it along the Soft Sky frame.

I hope you will visit the Pals Paper Arts Challenge and see what the design team members did with this sketch. Won't you play along as well?

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 Michelle

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