My daughter-in-law's father just lost his brother due to an accident and surgery complications, and once again, I needed to make another sympathy card. This is the second recent loss of one of her uncles, as her mother lost one of her brothers about a month ago. It seems like I have made several too many of these types of card lately.
I was going to participate in the SCS Ways to Use It challenge several weeks ago, which required the use of a silhouette—stamped or die-cut, but I was not able to get to it. I have an idea in mind using a partially finished card started over a year ago that will work great. It is a leftover from a card class by Dar Peterson to which I have made several changes.
I changed up the background from vertical coloring with Stampin' Up markers into a horizontal watercolored background using Crushed Curry and So Saffron ink and an aqua painter. When the panel was dry, I added very fine dots of black paint for a bit more interest. I also changed the direction of my Flourish Framelit die-cut going from bottom to top and place my sentiment in the top left corner instead of the bottom right. I added some Wink of Stella for some sheen on my black silhouetted flourish, and I added white pearls instead of black-inked pearls. Next, I die cut a decorative-edged, Daffodil Yellow layer instead of using a plain So Saffron layer, and I made my Delightful Dijon layer with less of its color edge showing. Take a peek at my finished card below:
Ingredients: Stampin' Up products: Cardstock--Whisper White, Daffodil Yellow, Delightful Dijon, Basic Black. Stamps: Flourishing Phrases. Ink: Crushed Curry, So Saffron, Basic Gray (sentiment). Dies: Flourish Framelits. Pearls. Other: Die: Avery Elle Postage Stamp. Folk Art Acrylic Paint: Licorice. Chatterbox inside verse. Size: 4-1/2" x 5-3/4."
