Sympathy Card

Sorry for the absence this week - far too much eating going on, 

Christmas shopping and wrapping ,and Christmas card making and writing.

That said, I still have a few special cards to make and post!

Sadly today was the funeral of a masonic friend of Barry and myself,

so I had the task of making yet another sympathy card.

I find that it's best to keep these CAS and let the words inside say what needs to be said.

The stamp set is Love and Sympathy, the colour combo is

Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss and White.

Hopefully I'll have a more cheerful card to post tomorrow for you -

and hoping that normal service can be resumed then too!

See you soon!

Love and Sympathy

Needed a sympathy card to send to a friend whose uncle died this week, and due to pressures of time

(and golf) it had to be a quick card. At last nights craft class, I showed the ladies how to make the diamond stencil using the Triangle Punch and then how to arrange the diamonds in a pleasing order.

The card that I produced was ideal to make a sympathy card with.

Here it is.

Colour combo is Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder.

The stamp set for the sentiments is Love and Sympathy.

I am really pleased with this - hope that she takes comfort from it.

All Occasion card (and hand made template)

Whilst browsing Pinterest the other day I came across a card that had been made

with a Harlequin die.  I haven't got one of these, so I set about and made my own 

diamond stencil.  I used my Stampin' Up! Triangle punch to make the diamond shape,

first of all in paper - and since then I have made one in acetate.

This card was made using the paper template - which was a trifle dodgy

as I was working blind placing the diamonds.  In fact I am quite impressed with the result, it will be a lot easier with the acetate one.

Here's the finished card, that I have decided to leave blank, in fact I shall make a few that will be suitable for all occasions, and will just need a sentiment.

The colours which I used and stippled into the stencil were:

Real Read, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Old Olive, Coastal Cabana and Pacific Point.

The flower is from the !Love and Sympathy" stamp set,

but I think that this card with the lovely bright colours will lend itself to many different occasions.

Just to give you an idea of how difficult it was to place these diamonds, here is my paper template!

As I said earlier, it will be a lot easier to make the next card now that I have made one out of acetate.  Enjoy!!

Sympathy card plus insert.

Here is the second of the sympathy cards that I made, this one is the same design as the original,

but a different colour way, and I have done a co-ordinating insert for this too.

Sympathy card

Sympathy insert

The colours on this card are:

Basic Gray, Smokey Slate, Pistachio Pudding and Rose Red

(which is the colour combo for this weeks WWWU colour challenge #4)

At first I wasn't sure that these colours would work together, but they really do!!

WWWU round 3

It's time for Wade's Weekly Warm up number 3!

Our Jems team has started a weekly colour challenge and Julie Wade is the

kind lady who comes up with these fantastic colour combos for us.

This week's colours are :

 Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz and Rich Razzleberry......

and here's my card.

My friend Liz and I were out shopping this morning and she asked if we could make a couple of

sympathy cards and a couple of get well cards (before the need arises) as very often, when we need these cards we are not in the right frame of mind to tackle the subject. 

Our Weekly Warm Up colour challenge seemed a good opportunity to tackle two birds with one stone (so to speak!)   The stamp set used for this card is Love and Sympathy and I think it is a beautiful and very fitting image

 and the sentiments are so comforting.