embossed sympathy...

Please forgive the darkness of the photo, I photographed it in the evening and that's never a good thing...lol.

I had a special request for another sympathy card and this is what I came up with. The background is stamped with the fontworks "rockstar" stamp in versamark and heat embossed in silver. I layered it onto shimmery white cardstock and basic grey. I stamped the sentiment in night of navy ink and added a rhinestone. The corners are punched with the corner ticket punch and pearls are set in each corner. I finished the design off with silver satin ribbon, a bow with some silver sheer ribbon and a pearl brad. I was inspired by a card featured in the holiday cards and more vol. 5 by Papercrafts magazine. I added some more layers, different colours and more embellishments. I think it came out so elegant.

Supplies: Stamps: rockstar bg (Fontworks), brighter tomorrow (Stampin' Up!). CS: night of navy, basic grey, shimmery white cs (SU!). Ink: Night of navy, versamark. Access: silver emboss powder, heat gun, rhinestone and pearls (Kaiser crafts), pearl brad (Recollections), silver satin ribbon (Offray), silver sheer ribbon (May Arts) and ticket corner punch (SU!).

Ciao!

Comforting Sympathy

Sympathy cards are never any fun to make but unfortunately are something that is always needed and they seem to sell right away at the shop where I sell my cards. I need to make a few more so I have a little supply of them for the shop and this is first one I have completed so far.

I went with some really old Basic Grey pp (black tie), black and shimmer white cs. I have heat embossed the sentiment using black emboss powder, then cut it using my oval nestabilities and then matted it in black with the scallop oval nestie. The sentiment panel is up on dimensionals and feature a rhinestone on each end. The corners of the pp have been cut using the ticket corner punch and then some tiny white pearls have been added in each corner. A scalloped shimmer piece of white accents the striped pattern and some large sheer black ribbon finishes off the design. Very classy I think.

Supplies: Stamps: Brighter tomorrow (SU!). CS: white shimmer, basic black cs (SU!), PP: Black tie (Basic Grey). Ink: versamark. Access: black emboss powder, corner ticket punch, corner rounder punch (SU!), heat gun, pearls and rhinestones (Kaiser crafts), Pearl brad (Recollections), classic oval and scalloped oval nesties (Spellbinders), cuttlebug, dimensionals, sheer black ribbon (Offray).

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Ciao!