Sympathy Cards

Hello everyone. I hope your weekend was wonderful and you had a chance to do something CRAFTY!

I did. I was able to work on some Sympathy Cards on Sunday afternoon.  A woman at church heads up a Prayer, Care and Visitation outreach and occasionally needs Sympathy and Get Well cards. So I was on a mission to bless the ministry with some.

This was a little bit of a challenge for me, since I wanted to keep them one layered.  As most of use know, too many layers and embellishments cost more to mail. I certainly wanted to make them go regular 1st. Class Mail to keep the cost down. I think I succeeded.  What do you think? 

The cards I'm posting today are Sympathy cards. I will bee making another 4 or more as the weeks go by. I did use "Thinking of You" on several of them, but they will have a sympathy sentiment inside.

I actually used Mossy Meadow ink on the tree and sentiment, but it did not show up. :0(

The flowers were colored using Pool Party ink and a Blender Pen

I used some faux "wink of stella" on the flowers and foliage.

I used the one of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps for the splatter.

That's about it for today.  I'm going to hopefully, create some Get Well cards today so I can hand them off tomorrow to Mona the coordinator of the outreach.

A confession.  I'm taking a big step of faith here giving these cards to Mona. I'm usually okay sending my family and some friends my cards, but I don't usually share them with people I don't know. It's a lack of confidence on my part as a crafter. I am getting more comfortable with it, though. ;0)

Have a great day and as usual, go do something CRAFTY! 

Crafty Hugs,

BernieB

SU stamps:Serene Silhouettes,Wetlands,Gorgeous Grunge,Thoughts and Prayers#2,Bloom with Hope,Happy Watercolor. All papers and inks by SU.

A Christams Goose / PP272

Today I worked on another Christmas card.  I have 2 more to create for my immediate family and I'm using the Paper Pumpkin kits to created the remainder.

I decided to play along with the Paper Players #272 sketch challenge to create this goose card.  I was a little hesitant to use black, red, and very vanilla, but I do like the way it looks. What do you think?

All the papers are by SU, the black pattern paper is retired and so is the ribbon. I created the tag on my Cricut Explore Air and mimicked the corners on the red background with a retired SU punch. I used the Wetlands stamp by SU, but hadn't used the goose on too many cards with this set. I thought it was about time!

That's about it for today.  I'm off to do errands and give my pup a bath today.  We are going to a Thanksgiving function in Scottsdale, AZ, so I will not be doing much cooking this year. Although, I love the whole Thanksgiving preparations.

HAVE A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED THANKSGIVING from my family to yours!

Crafty Hugs,
BernieBee

Quick & Easy Thinking of You card

 

Just a quick and easy card today.  Since I needed 4 thinking of  you  cards, I CASEd this from stampingschool.com.  Of course, I added my own spin, but I used the basic layout.

The free Sale-a-bration DSP, Pool Party twine, and lacey trim were something I knew I wanted to use. I love the floral pattern on this paper. It's colors are so bright and fresh and match so well with the Pool Party base. 

Have a wonderful Wednesday. I continue to get ready for our Maine/NY trip. I'm excited about seeing all my family and grandchildren, but not so much about packing! I seem to always leave that to the last minute.

Do something CRAFTY my friends!
Bernadette

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Masculine Get Well

Today I completed the get well card I needed for a male friend who had Hip Replacement surgery. I so enjoyed using the Wetlands stamp, I just don't know why I don't use it more often.

I really love how this card came together, especially the color combination of Mossy Meadow card stock and ribbon, Lost Lagoon as a layer embossed with the Woodgrain EF, and incorporating the use of one of the Project Life Cards and Life die cuts to frame out the sentiment. The main image and the sentiment was stamped on the Naturals White CS and backed with Baked Brown Sugar CS. I know I will be using this combination again.

 

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Wetlands

Work of Art

Project Life Cards & Labels Die

Mossy Meadow CS

Mossy Meadow

Woodgrain EF

 
I hope you can do something CRAFTY today!

BERNADETTE

Manly Card

Yesterday I decided to play along with Retro Sketches challenge rs#82. I was  going to enter this into the ColourQ challenge also, but they had black, white and a pop of color as their color choices. I used Very Vanilla which coordinates with the background in the Modern Medley DSP. My pop of color

 was the very pretty Coastal Cabana.

I used the Wetlands #126697 image and sentiment, but only heat embossed  the shore birds with Black Stampin' Emboss powder. 

The sentiment was inked in Coastal Cabana and cut with the Framelits- Oval Collection #129381. With the addition of a few Black Candy Dots and some Stampin' Dimensionals my card was complete.

Make your day great and stay CRAFTY!

BERNADETTE