Hi everyone! I have always believed that Spring is wedding season, but sadly this Spring I have needed a steady stream of sympathy cards. Many of my friends have lost a spouse, one or the other of their parents, and one friend lost a beloved pet.
I find sympathy cards difficult to make and typically try to keep a "well" of such cards available but this year I have simply been unable to keep up. One "silver lining" of being behind is that the card can be much more personalized than a generic/from-the-stash kind of card would be. Such is the case for today's card, made for a knitting friend who recently lost her mother.
My friend loves color so I chose a lovely print from one of the Ink Drops series (feminine and in "adjacent" colors that are not too somber) to combine with a medley of sentiments from several Stamp Simply stamp sets.
This project is made from a 6 x 10.5 inch piece of card stock scored 3.5 inches from each end so that it folds into a finished 3.5 x 6 tri-fold card. The off-centered window die-cut through the front allows the image stamped onto the middle panel to peek through.
Then when that front flap is opened you can see the entire floral image and the sentiments clustered around it.
There are so many beautiful colors of dahlias! Adding a tiny bit of grey shading around the images helps to subtly "ground" everything and makes it look a little more finished.
This is the very center/inside, visible when the second flap is opened. There's a scrap of that same beautiful paper and a sentiment from another stamp set. As I have mentioned many times before, I LOVE that these sets have a variety of sentiments in this gorgeous font that can be mixed and matched to your liking. There are even a few of the same sentiments that are arranged differently, such that one layout or the other might prove advantageous for a particular project (that was true for this card where a single straight-line "thinking of you" fit better than the two-line indented one).
While this card will indeed be sent as a sympathy card, this combination of sentiments would be appropriate for a much broader variety of circumstances.
Supplies:
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Delightful Dahlias
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Pretty Poppies (Dear friend sentiment)
- Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Faith (thinking of/praying for you sentiments)
- Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Tag Collection
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles SM
- Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles LG
- Craft Consortium Ink Drops Candy 6x6
- Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Rhinestones - Lilac
- Seam Binding Sampler - Rich Pastels - 40 yards
- May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Pink
- Copic markers
- diluted white acrylic paint for splatters
- button from stash
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