I made this card to send to extended family in the USA (I am in Australia). Sympathy cards are never an easy card to make of course and I tried to go for something very simple and understated which is what I prefer for my Sympathy cards - plus it needed to be very flat for posting overseas.
The dry embossing is an old folder by Cuttlebug - Grace's Frame - which is still widely available.
The tree and sentiment are by Stampin' Up from their Thoughts and Prayers set and were stamped with Memento Gray Flannel dye ink which gave a lovely softness to the images as opposed to using black ink which can sometimes look a bit harsh.
I layered the main panel onto some dusky pink designer paper by Creativ which I bought from KMart (Australia). The paper has no particular name - just an Item No. - and comes in a set of 24 sheets - 6" x 6". I trimmed the paper to 1/16" using my Perfect Layers Tools.
I punched a heart using a Carl CP-8 Heart twin punch (I used the biggest heart) from the same dusky pink paper and glued that next to the sentiment using Tombow Mono Multi glue.
Lastly, I adhered the main panel to a white card base using doublesided tape.
Registered: June 10, 2011 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 7381
Sat, Jan 31, 2015 @ 9:31 PM
This is beautiful, simply but very elegant Sympathy Card. I agree - sympathy cards are just so hard to make - I don't know where to start sometimes. This turned out so well and I think it will be very much appreciated.