No one likes to make Sympathy cards.......

My sister in law lost her father in law earlier today, so I felt the need to make a couple of cards.  He was a lovely man, who along with his wife, always made us feel welcome whenever we visited my sister in law.  We have daughters the same age, so we saw a lot of her in laws when they were young. So here's the cards, one for my sister in law and one for her mother in law.

For the background panel, I applied 2 shades of Adirondack inks - Stonewashed and Cloudy Blue to an acylic block, spritzed with water and stamped it onto my cardstock. Then stamped image with Majestic Blue, Versafine and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  This stamp is from Lavinia Stamps and the sentiment is by Personal Impressions.

The background panel on this one was made by blending Seedless Preserve Distress ink to the cardstock with a duster brush.  I then stamped the image, stamp from Inkylicious, in Versamark Imprerial Purple, and heat embosed with clear embossing powder.  I used the same ink to ink up a scrap of card which I also heat embossed with clear embossing powder, then cut out the sentiment with a die.

I think sympathy cards should be 'clean' looking and simple, but that's just me..

Thanks for looking.

xxx

DCD #106 - Sympathy'

A new challenge has just started over on Die Cut Dreams and our theme is 'Sympathy' one of the hardest cards to do, but we all need them at some time.  Our sponsor this week is our very own Susie Sugar and the prize is a mysterious selection of die cuts.  Closing date for this challenge is January 29th at 12 noon.

Here's my DT card.

A simple card for this one, with just the stamped corner, which is from a stamp set I bought in Florida, I used an MS punch for the side of the card and finished of with a ribbon and a few gems.