My Favourite Sympathy Set

 It never a great time when you have to send out a sympathy card.  There are occasions when we need to unexpectedly let someone know we are thinking of them and this set makes it very easy for you.  My favourite set for sympathy cards is the Thoughts & Prayers set.  This is the card I made for someone this week.

 

I have used the markers to randomly colour the leaves in some Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa.  I used the Circle Scissors in the current Mini Catalogue to create the layered circles.  The 2 circles are actually both cut from Very Vanilla cardstock. The reason why the smaller circle has a different colour is that I have used the Sponge Daubers with the Pastels to blend the Chocolate Chip and Creamy Caramel Colour on the inner circle

I have also used 3 of the Jumbo Grommets on the bottom of the card.  If you have never used them before, here’s a quick tutorial on how to use them.  

Place the paper you want your grommets attached to on top of a foam surface.  Im using the setting mat from the Mat Pack Stampin Up sell. Then place your grommet in where you want it.

Push down until all the prongs at the back have pierced through the paper.

Flip your paper over and use your bone folder, or something similar to squash down the prongs.  And that’s it!

This is the jumbo set I used. 

ENJOY!

Supplies:

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa
Stamp Set: Thoughts & Prayers
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Paper: Urban Garden, Washington Apple
Other: Hemp Twine, Circle Scissors, Jumbo Grommets, Pastels

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Sympathy #2

Since I had the set out, I figured I might as well just make another card using the tree…….its was such a hard decision to keep stamping lol.

I actually stamped the whole tree in Certainly Celery (the lighter colour in the leaves), and used my markers to colour the trunk with Chocolate Chip and some of the other leaves in Old Olive. Because Certainly Celery is a lighter colour than Chocolate Chip, I had no problems colouring over it with the marker. I used both ends of the marker, the brush tip and journaling tips, to colour the trunk. Some of the higher branches are quite fine and the brush tip would have coloured the leaves.

And since i had my Pretties Kit out, I added a few more of the half pearls. You could have easily just added a bow or a knot in their place. I also used some of the Certainly Celery ribbon that was FREE last month. But there is a new promotion this month that I will post about either later today or tomorrow for you 🙂

ENJOY

Supplies:
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, Certainly Celery
Stamp Set: Thoughts & Prayers
Punches: Corner Rounder, Eyelet Border

Other: Certainly Celery Twill Ribbon, Haiku DSP, Sponge Daubers, Half Pearls, Earth Elements Markers,Soft Subtles Markers, Dimensionals

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Sympathetic Monochromatic Monday

It’s been a while since I have done a monochromatic card, and I really like how this has turned out. I didn’t plan to have make this all brown tones, I did originally have some navy in place of the Chocolate Chip Cardstock. But since my desk is somewhat….how should I put it…..crazily messy, I happened to have some scraps of chocolate chip near by, and suddenly my colour pallete changed. This is also the first time I have used this stamp set ‘Thoughts & Prayers’ and cant wait to use the other tree from the set.

I’ve have used the flowers from the Boho Punch in place of the actual stamped flowers that are part of the stamp. I then added some Very Vanilla half pearls from the pretties kit. I also used close to cocoa and creamy caramel markers to give the leaves different shades.

On a happier note, I’ve just reached 10,000 hits on my blog! I know in the scheme of the world wide web my little blog is….little……but thanks to everyone who visits and especially those that leave comments, it really makes my day 🙂 Once my supplies are unpacked from our move, I’ll be doing a giveway in appeciation to you all!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Kraft, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Stamp Set: Thoughts & Prayers
Punches: Boho Flower, Eyelet Border

Other: Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, Bella Bleu DSP, Sponge Daubers, Hodge Podge, Half Pearls, Earth Elements Markers,

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