Avonlea Sympathy Card

I can hardly believe we are already on the second week of school.  The first week is always spent being a wee bit mopey for me.  I have a good cry when all my kids are out the door on the first day of school and I always feel a bit blue until we settle back into the routine of school.  I like that our school district does a three day week for the first week and a four day week for the second week of school because of Labor Day - it gives me a chance to ease back into having them gone so much.  We spent our Labor Day laboring together staining our fence (not a fun job but one that was a couple of years overdue so very necessary) and we drained our pool.  Summer is officially over for us when we drain the pool - LOL!

I'm still missing them terribly today but having them gone did allow me to finally finish a photo shoot of the rest of the creations I made for the Summer Customer Carnival I held last month.  Here is a sympathy card I made with our beautiful Avonlea paper pack.  The warm rich tones and peaceful gray, blue and green color scheme worked well for this type of card.  Really this one could be any kind of card if you changed the sentiment but I wanted to have a sympathy card or two ready in my stash.

Close up of the circle detail - I scored the edges of 1" punched circles and folded them in for this border.  A bitty pearl at the center of each intersection gives it a bit more finesse.

I echoed the bitty pearls on the border with a line of bitty pearls under the sentiment.

If you'd like to make this project, click on the links below to purchase these products:

Avonlea Paper Pack

Mocha Opaques Pearls

Chocolate Ink

4 My Friend Stamp Set

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend - whether you labored like we did or just enjoyed the sunshine and the last bit of summer!

Hugs,

Paige

CTMH Sympathy Card Made with CTMH Comforting Thoughts

A very good friend of my mother-in-law just recently lost her husband. This family was an important part of my husband's life when he was growing up so he asked me to make a card to send to her.

I grabbed a stamp set I purchased about a year ago for the perfect sentiment and added it to a card made with our Black cardstock and some silver metallic cardstock I received from a friend. The silver cardstock has gone through the cuttlebug with two different embossing folders. The flowers are simply punched from White Daisy and overlayed with a vellum copy. Vellum curls very nicely with just a little pressure from your fingers. I'm not sure how much dimension they'll retain after going through the mail but I would guess they'll still have a little bounce at the ends.

Materials:

Paper: Black CS, White Daisy CS, Silver metallic CS (unknown brand), Vellum

Stamps: Comforting Thoughts (retired)

Ink: Grey Wool

Other: Silver Brads, White Organdy Ribbon, Flower Punch, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder