With Sympathy

Hi my friends, today I have a card we hope we never need but there will come a time the need will arise.  I always try to have a couple of sympathy cards on hand and for me, I like them to be clean and simple with a pretty color and just a touch of black.  I want the message to get a cross, not "look what I made".  This card got sent out to my brother, my sister-in-law sadly passed away.

Here's how my card was made;

All stamps and dies are from Rubbernecker Stamps, links below.

•  Stamp white cardstock with the Daisies stamp using VersaMark Ink and emboss with Iced Blue Embossing Enamel from Stampendous!.
• Die-cut using the largest die from the Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die Set (I use the Cross Over II from Rubbernecker Stamps) and glue to a light blue card.

• Die-cut blue glitter paper using the Flower #5 Die Cut and glue to the front of the card.
• Stamp a black strip of cardstock with VersaMark Ink and emboss with White Embossing Powder from Stampendous!.
• Glue this to the card and using a circle punch, punch a circle from the blue glitter paper and glue to the left side of the sentiment.

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With Sympathy

Happy March everyone, can you believe that Spring is just a couple of weeks away?  I sure am ready for warmer weather and flowers.  My card today uses pretty flowers for a card we all hope we never need but when we do, it's helpful to have some on hand.

Here's how my card was made-

• Stamp white cardstock with Crackled Mud Background Stamp with Tea Dye Ink.
• Die-cut the stamped piece using the Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die Cut Set, in the second to largest size.  Using the largest of the dies, cut a piece from pink cardstock and set aside.
• Place three strips of washi tape diagonally across the top right corner of the stamped panel.
• Stamp the Silhouette Flower #4 three times at the bottom of the white panel using VersaMark Ink and Emboss with Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel.
• Layer this onto a slightly larger tan panel and tie tan twine around the bottom.
• Glue this to the pink die-cut piece.
• Pop this up on a tan-colored card.
• Stamp With Sympathy using Onyx Black VersaFine Ink and emboss with clear embossing powder.  Cut out close to the sentiment, layer onto a tan panel and pop up on the card using 3D Foam Squares from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.
• Apply two pink rhinestones around the sentiment and your card is done.

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Pets Are Family

Dogs aren't just pets, they're family!  I used the Best Buddies Set from Whimsy Stamps and stamped the sweet image on a die-cut tag then colored with Prisma Colored Pencils.

The tag is layered against a die-cut panel with the left side stamped with little paws from the set and black lines from the Get In Line Clear Stamp Set.  The senitment from the set was stamped with VersaMark Ink and embossed with white embossing powder, then die-cut using the Quick Strips Die Set.

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Word Of Comfort

We had a sketch challenge in my stamp club for our card exchange and I made this sympathy card using the Cling Lilac Rubber Stamp Set and matching Lilac Die Set, with a sentiment from the Bible Promises Perfectly Clear Set from Stampendous.  Luckily no one in my club is in need of a sympathy card but they are always good to have on hand.  You can see other samples of these sets on the Stampendous website by clicking the names of the stamps above.

The butterfly was stamped on Strathmore Bristol paper and  is colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.  The Strathmore Bristol is my favorite paper to use with my Zigs, the pens blend beautifully on it!
The lilac was stamped and embossed with white then sponged with Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet inks.

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Thinking Of You

This week the Stampendous Design Team is playing with some wonderful products that Tombow so generously sent us.  I am sharing the Subtractive Eraser Technique used with a Dreamweaver Stencils  Butterfly stencil and the results are stunning! We are really excited for the upcoming hop with Tombow on September 18-20, be sure to stop by and hop along!

  Here is how my card was made:

1.  Rub a Tombow Mono pencil on an emery board over a white cardstock panel so the "shavings" land on the panel.  Rub the shavings into the panel using a wide sponge.
2.  Place Dreamweaver Stencils LL3037 Butterfly stencil diagonally on the panel and tape two edges with removeable tape so the stencil doesn't move.
3.  Use a Tombow MONO non pvc eraser and erase the pencil color from the paper.  Use the Tombow MONO Zero eraser to get into the small and hard to get to areas.  I was happily surprised how the Mono erasers removed all of the color revealing the bright white paper!

4.  Before removing the stencil, outline the butterfly with a Gelly Roll glitter pen.
5.  Stamp Agapanthus Cluster along the bottom with London Fog Memento ink.
6.  Sprinkle Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel in the top left corner and heat from underneath so it doesn't blow off.
7.  Stamp sentiment from the Encouraging Words Perfectly Clear Set in black over the upper left part of the butterfly.
8.  Add self adhesive pearls to the butterfly body and color the with PP2 Spectrum Noir alcohol pen to make them pink.  Glue to a pink card using Zip Dry Glue.
9.  Tie the left side of the card with sheer light pink ribbon and heat the ends of the ribbon with your heat gun and watch the ends curl.

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Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurly

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Simple Elegance

Merriam-Webster defines august as, "marked by majestic dignity or grandeur", with synonyms such as, "dignified, distinguished, imposing, portly, solemn, staid, and stately". Now, I don't know just how dignified and stately the Dream Team can become for an entire month, but we are all going to give it a try! How about trying along with us, and linking YOUR creations to the inlinkz tool below for a chance to win the wildest stencil design your little heart is screaming for!

Today's card was made using LJ841 Fleur de lis, LG696 Comfort Combo, Dreamweaver Stencils, DD001 Nesting Frames, DM2001 Petite Fern, Glossy White Embossing Paste, white Gelly Pen, flowers, ribbon, charm, adhesive pearls, Delicata Golden Glitz by Imagine Crafts.

Now take a look at what the  "A" team has for you this week:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

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Comfort, Strenght, Hope...

This card was made for my "glossy card" class and it is using a crayon resist technique that is super easy! I used this wonderful clear stamp set from Stampendous and stamped the words in black StazOn ink, then stamped the leaves and let dry a few seconds. Using a clear or white crayon, color in the leaves. Then stipple or sponge on the cranberry and lettuce Adirondack inks diagonally, when finished wipe with a paper towel and the leaves will pop! Layer this onto black and gold papers, punch three holes along the left side and add ribbon then layer onto white paper. On a cranberry panel, stamp the leaves from the set using galaxy gold Brilliance and mount to a white card. Add the circle stickers from Stampendous to two of the corners and you are done. This card can be used for sympathy, for someone with an illness or who has lost a job.


Now here is a picture of Melanie who recently got her braces off, look at those wonderfully straight teeth!

So now for the reason I haven't been posting recently. My MIL is in the hospital for the 12th day and is expected to be there for another 2-3 weeks. She has a bunch of problems that came about quickly and we are hoping she gets better. So we have been visiting her often and haven't had time for much else. Here is a picture of my hubby Paul and my son Greg visiting Gram.

Here in southern California we have year round school and tomorrow is Greg's last day of 7th grade, wow my baby is growing up! So tomorrow is his awards ceremony and he will be getting an award for a 4.0 gpa, we are sooooo proud of him!! Then he is off for a month and into 8th grade he goes in July.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you all have a great week.

Thinking of You...

This card was made using glossy paper, it's one of my favorite techniques and it's oh so easy.
1. Cut glossy paper to 5 1/4" x 4" and mask the bottom with torn paper.
2. Brayer with butterscotch Adirondack ink and then stipple or sponge the edges with caramel Adirondack ink.
3. Stamp the butterfly from a Stampendous clear stamp set and the word "Comfort" in black dye ink first then fill in the space with the other images.
4. Outline some of the images with a white gel pen.
5. Remove the mask and stamp the sentiment also from Stampendous, in black.
6. Apply a chain Class A'Peel sticker from Stampendous to the bottom.
7. Then glue it onto a glossy white card and your done!
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Now onto my weekend. My daughter Melanie's birthday was Friday, she turned 16 wow is that hard to believe! Here is a picture of her with her balloons.



Her are Melanie and Greg, I actually got Greg to put his arm around her, woo hoo!

Melanie took this picture of us with my Mom, she does a good job at taking her own pictures.

We've lived in our house for 6 years and for the first 4 years we had a nice looking backyard until our little home devaluators known as Maxie and Minie (see picture below) thought they could dig to China through our lawn if they tried hard enough, they almost made it! So for about the last 2 years we have had dirt and weeds back there which looked terrible!

About two weeks ago we got sod put in and it looks beautiful! And to be sure the dogs don't destroy it again, we put up a little fence that we attached to the patio posts, hehehehe try to get through that!

Thank you for stopping by, have a great week :)

I'm Back!

Wow it's been a long time since I've blogged! I have been busy, busy, busy. I am in charge of the Girl Scout cookie sale for our troop and we have 15 booth sales scheduled for March, just became the snack bar coordinator for the swim team, and had a stamp class last week. I think the worst is behind me and now I can blow the dust off of my stamps and get to work.

This card was made for my class last week. The store Stamp Fever in the city of Orange in Southern California had an over stock of the leaf and flower stamps so I made this to help them sell.

The flower is stamped with caramel and the leaves with lettuce. The sentiment is stamped in black. The edges are sponged with butterscotch and caramel inks, layered onto black paper, tied with a green ribbon and glitter glue was applied to the center of the flowers. This was layered onto a golden rod panel that was stamped with the leaves in caramel and the edges are sponged with butterscotch and caramel and mounted to a black card. Peace is stamped on a square in black and the edges are sponged with the same inks as above. This is popped up with foam squares. Circle stickers are added to the corners.

Recipe

Stamps- leaves and flower by Great Impressions, words by Stampendous

Inks- lettuce, butterscotch, caramel Adirondack, black VersaFine

Plus- circle stickers by Stampendous, ribbon, glitter glue
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Clean and Simple

Last week over at SCS on of the challenges was to make a clean and simple card (CAS). I loved this challenge and you don't realize how hard it is to make a CAS when you are used to layering, coloring and added embellishments. To make these cards I inked up the raised side of a CuttleBug folder with lettuce and currant Adirondack and brown VersaFine then ran it through the machine and you have this beautiful background. The tags are CuttleBug dies that were sponged with ink and stamped with words from the "Encouraging Words" set from Stampendous.

This was made using currant Adirondack ink and Stampendous stamps and circle stickers.

Below are closer up pictures of the CuttleBug cards.

As I post this I'm waiting for my refrigerator to be delivered. Saturday morning at about 5:30 a.m., we thought there was a fire downstairs. The kitchen filled with smoke and it smelled terrible like wires burning. We thought something was burning in the walls but couldn't find anything. Several hours later we discovered the refrigerator wasn't working so the motor must of burned up. On one hand I'm glad we don't have a problem in our walls, on the other wow are refrigerators expensive! Hopefully this will last at least 10 years, the one I currently have only lasted about 7 or 8 years.

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Sympathy Card

I have this great clear stamp set from Paper Inspirations that have four sayings, sympathy, birthday, celebrate and thank you. This set is wonderful and it looks so elegant. The background stamp is also by Paper Inspirations and is called aged paper creases, it is also one of my favorites, you can instantly age anything!

1. Stamp the sympathy on a cream panel with VersaMark ink and emboss with champagne embossing powder.

2. Stamp the aged paper with latte Adirondack ink and stipple the edges.

3. Stamp the leaves which are by Stampendous with lettuce Adirondack ink re-inking every other time. Layer this onto burgundy and gold papers.

4. Glue a skeleton leaf to a burgundy panel, tie with gold cord and add beads. Glue to a cream card and mount stamped piece.

My daughter is having her slumber party Saturday so I'll have a house full of teenagers and they will be staying inside because it will be over 100 degrees here for the next 3-4 days then it will drop down to the high 90's, ah a cooling trend :) Have a great weekend :)