Elegant Sympathy Card

My girlfriend's father-in-law passed away last week and the funeral was Saturday.  She always spoke so highly of him.  I made a card for her and her husband with a new Elizabeth Craft Designs die featuring Quietfire "With Sympathy".

You do need to use the metal plate, but it was easy to pull from the die.  You really should use adhesive sheets because you don't want glue to smear onto the metallic shimmer sheetz.  The butterflies flew in from the Garden Notes - Bugs & Butterflies die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I really had run out of ideas for a nice sympathy card.  I didn't want anything ostentatious or cluttered or frilly.  I just wanted simple and I think I got it.

This will go into work with me tomorrow so she'll have it waiting for her when she comes into work.

Hugs and warm thoughts to my dear friend.
Arlene

My Salted Card - Wet into Wet Technique

Sometimes you need a sympathy card.  The pink watercolor paper behind the notecard was painted with watercolor paint and sprinkled with Salt.  This is another watercolor technique I picked up this month at my watercolor class.  Totally FUN!

I brushed the watercolor paper with clean water, then picked up color with a very wet paintbrush.  I washed the color over the paper, keeping it fairly wet.  I had a choice of Epson salt or Kosher salt.  Kosher salt will make smaller dots on the surface of the paper. I hope you can see the dots in the paper that look like they might have been made with some kind of embossing folder.

The salt sits on the wet watercolor until the paper is dry.  You can just flick the crystals of salt off and voila!  Instant COOL background.  I glued the watercolor paper to the die-cut front of the card and then overlapped the front with a die-cut flower.

Closeup of the Epson Salted background

I am sorry I had to use it so soon after making this.  But it did turn out wonderfully.

Sympathy Card

It's one of those things you know you have to have on hand, but who's really into making Sympathy cards. Well, I figured I needed at least one, so I took some scrap black lacy paper that was a little bigger than 1/2 the notecard, glued it down, stamped HA clear stamp (leaves) from my new HA clear Sharing Laughter set on the top and found the message "just wanted to say" for the front. Trimmed with corner punch, mounted on olive CS, wrapped olive ribbon around front, pearls on a couple things on bottom & one on upper right flower. One flower at left. Ready for any emergency.