Monday, 27 January 2025

With Sympathy

I dislike making Sympathy cards when they're needed, I would rather keep one or two in my card box 'just in case'.  For this card I used a lovely Uniko stamp I bought with a gift voucher I won in the Uniko 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway.

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white matt card blank
     Uniko 'So Much' and Clearly Besotted 'Mini Calligraphy' stamps
     My Favorite Things 'Inside & Out Stitched Circle STAX Die-namics' die
     Versafine Olympia Green ink
     Cosmic Shimmer Clear Detail embossing powder
     Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star pen

I used the largest die to emboss a circle in the centre of the card blank.  I placed the card into my MISTI and laid the flowers and sentiment stamps inside the circle.  These were stamped with green ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then used a Clear Star gel pen to colour the outlines of the flowers and leaves.

I am entering the following challenges:
     Addicted to CAS - Center Focus
     Addicted to Stamps & More - Any Occasion
     Allsorts - Close to Nature
     Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes
     CAS on Friday - Flowers
     Daisy Chain Challenge - No Design Paper
     Pearly Sparkles Challenge - Something Old, Something New (my old Clearly Besotted stamp and my new Uniko stamp)
     Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - Something New (my new Uniko stamp)

Kath x

10 comments:

brenda said...

Perfect for purpose Kath, never easy ones to make, many thanks for sharing another with us at Allsorts challenge.

B x

Liz said...

Beautiful, a perfect sympathy card, Kath. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge using the Close to Nature option.
Liz xx

crafty-stamper said...

Beautiful sympathy card and love the stamps.
Carol x

Pat said...

This is perfect for a sympathy card Kath, and love the look of the impressed circle die within which you have stamped and heat embossed the pretty flowers, and the Sakura pen work looks great. x

Diane said...

A beautiful CAS card!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Simply Clean & Simple.
Diane SCAS Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Simply Clean & Simple}

ClaireB said...

Lovely sympathy card, simple and elegant. Thanks for joining us at the Pearly Sparkles Challenge this month, Claire DT

dj said...

Beautiful!! Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with us at CAS on Friday. Your embossed flowers are perfect for our clean and simple "FLOWER" challenge (#301)!! Deb Horst, D.T

Sarn said...

I'm feel the same as you regarding sympathy cards. This one is perfect xxx

Jules said...

Hi Kath
A really lovely card . these are always hard to make.
Love the embossed circle and the great image.
I prefer to have some made and stashed away too.
Love and hugs
Jules xoxo

Sarah said...

That's a perfect esign for a sympathy card. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah