A Sympathy Card

This has been a great but busy day. This morning I froze peaches and then we went to Rondeau Park for a 19.5km bike ride. It was beautiful at the lake but when we got home, it was 78F in the house so the A/C had to go back on. I almost forgot to post a card tonight. Tired!

My cousin…second cousin???. The cousin line is so hard to figure out…anyway, his father-in-law just died so I wanted to send them a sympathy card. The father-in-law was quite elderly and in poor health for months. Here’s the one I made for them. I believe this is a very old, out of stock, Stamping Bella stamp.

His wife loves glitz and flowers so I didn’t want a dark brooding type of card. I thought she would like this one more. The flowers were coloured with alcohol pens….not Copics but imitation ones which is all I could afford….and they are not as nice as Copics. I have 5 Copics but never bought any more. The blue background is sponged on chalk. The stitched rectangle is by Elizabeth Crafts – love the stitched dies.

The background behind the layers is one of my own. It is many layers of ink; paint; stencils; and stamps. I should photograph some of the whole sheets to show you before they get cut up. I had so much fun making these! And I got to cover up some very ugly 12x12 paper I would never use in a project.

Anyway, back to the cad. The stitched oval is from a Stampin’ Up die and the sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder. At the very end I decided it needed sequins so I glued them on.

Cheers

Violet

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