Quick and simple sympathy card
Sometimes it is amazing what a difference a week makes. A week ago, we were under heat advisories, celebrating birthdays, and I was enjoying my last couple of days before school resumed. Now, I am cold and dressed in fall clothing, I have a week of classes under my belt, and a friend of mine lost her dad. I needed to create a sympathy card fairly quickly, so I found myself pondering my collection of stamps. I knew I wanted something clean and simple, and basically one layer. I haven’t worked with my medallion stamps in a while, so I settled on my “Emma”medallion stamp from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped this using Memento tuxedo black ink on Neenah classic crest solar white card stock, cut to 4″ x 5.5”, offsetting the stamp so it will sit in in the lower left side of the card. For some reason, I struggle with getting a clean image the first time with this stamp, so I always use my MISTI when working with the Emma medallion stamp. I then stamped it with Versamark ink and added a layer of clear embossing powder from Sparkle ‘n Sprinkle.
I took a piece of Canson XL watercolor paper that was cut down previously and “water colored” it, using Gina K plum punch ink (I am IN LOVE with this color at the moment!!!). I used my spray bottle to make the paper wet on both sides, then added color, starting out very pale and increasing in intensity to create an ombré look.
I die cut the word prayers using a Honey Bee Stamps die from the plum punch ombré paper, and adhered it to a piece of vellum from my stash.
I attached the vellum piece over the medallion to soften the overall look of the card, adhering the vellum to the card front under the word prayers and on the back side of the card front. At this point, I felt it needed a little something more, so I used my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to shimmer the word “prayers”.
I mounted all of this on a piece of Gina K onyx card stock, then adhered the card front to a card base I had made previously from Neenah classic crest card stock.
Done. Quick and simple.
As always, thank you for reading, and I hope this inspires you to go out and make something!
