Sympathy Card

Sympathy cards are one of the hardest cards for me to make. It is such a tough time for the individuals and trying to put in a card what you want to tell that person is hard to convey. I have needed a couple of this type of card recently.

This is the first one. I will give you some of the details I used in making his card.
  I used  all of CTMH products except for the brown sheer ribbon . The colors are Ruby, Cashmere, Champagne, Saddle  on a Colonial White Base.
 This is a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 vertical card.
 I cut a 1" Saddle CS circle, 1 1/2" Champagne CS circle and 2 1/2" Cashmere CS circle using the Art Philosophy cartridge button A1. I also cut using the Art Philosophy cart. the scallop strip using Champagne CS. It is button Shift +Font + E4 cut at 3/4" and then sub cut to 3" in length.
 I inked all papers with Saddle ink.
 I scored the Ruby CS diagonally and sanded it.

The Burlap ribbon embellishment was made by cutting a piece and pulling the strands apart. I then grouped them together and tied a knot at one end and trimmed the ends. I took another piece of Burlap ribbon and cut it down to about 3/4" wide and adhered that to the card first. Then I took the stranded pieces and adhered it on top of the strip with Liquid Glass.

After adding all the elements this is the completed card.

I will post my other Sympathy Card in  a few days.

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Window Card

First of all I am so glad to be back crafting again!!  I had a Family emergency in Minnesota and recently got back home. It has been a while and much has happened but I hope to be crafting more often and posting here for all of you. Thanks for being one of my Followers and hanging in there with me.

So let's get started.  On to today's project I have a Window Card. I have heard and seen many "Window Cards" on the Internet. I love the look of them and all the different things you can do when using these dies. I have a friend who was able to pick me up a couple of the sets(thank you) and this is my first attempt at making something with them.

I purchased both the large set and the small set and have used the small size of the window, shutters, flower box, curtains and vine in this card. My card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I used papers from a 6 x 6 paper pad I have had for a long time!!! You don't have any older papers do you? lol The papers were all textured which gave me  a good look for the different dies. I looked through all my embossing folders and I didn't find a brick look or wood grain etc to use for the window and shutters. So with the paper having some texture that helped with the look I as wanting to get.

I put each of the dies through my Cuttlebug and cut them out.  Then I added a Martha Stewart sprig punch,  a Stampin Up bird punch using the leaf stem from it ,and a small flowers punch for all the little flowers to make up my parts in the flower box.

The CTMH elements are the Hollyhock rick rack (retired), The little paper butterfly from the Flutter paper shapes, and the Happy Birthday (retired) stamp set for the sentiment. I used a dauber and Blush ink to give the butterfly a little soft color.

It was a fun card to put together. So many possibilities!!! I hope you enjoyed this one. I will be back with some other looks too using both sizes of the windows etc.

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See you next time.