Sympathy Cards

 Hi,  - Today I'm sharing a couple of, Sympathy cards that I recently needed. - Let's face while they are probably a crafter's least favorite card to make it's inevitable that they will at some point be needed.

Card #1:

For this card I used the other image from the July 2025 KOM

For my GIU week I had used the Dandelion image but I wanted to try using the other image as well. The sentiment is also from a Unity KOM (January 2023 Bloom and Evolve) The little splatters are from SU (Itty Bitty Backgrounds) a long since retired stamp set.

I started with a card base of Basic Beige (SU) which I might add is a color I really like now that I finally purchased some of it.

I had bought a piece of patterned paper at Hobby Lobby (Paper Studio line) that had a similar pattern on it so I based my color scheme off of that paper.

Dies used were: Unity Scallop/Rectangle.

I used Versa Mark ink and some Embossing Powder (Cobalt Tapestry) from PSE (Personal Stamp Exchange) which is sadly no longer in business to emboss the image.  I've only got a small amount left of this color and will miss it when it's gone.

Night of Navy ink was used to stamp the sentiment and it was fussy cut and glued to the image. Foam tape raised up the focal image.

This is the inside of the card.  I stamped the same image on a piece of scrap paper with Night of Navy ink and then stamped in down on a piece of Crumb Cake card stock which gave it a more muted look. The Sentiment if from Stamp Simply (Sympathy Sentiments Set 2) which I won on a blog hop a few years ago.  I love this sentiment and you will see it used on card 2 as well.

Card 2:

For this card I used a card base of Pecan Pie and a layer of Crumb Cake.  I stamped the deer image (Very old SU set, Noble Deer from 2004) I love this set so it's still in my stash.  I stamped the image with Early Espresso ink and colored it with pencils.  The pine cones are also part of that set and stamped and colored the same way then fussy cut. - The Sentiment is from the same Stamp Simple set that was used in Card #1.

I also used an old SU background stamp, (Sanded) with Versa Mark ink and stamped it down over my image trying to just get it only on the side areas and not the focal image.  You can see the faint impression it made if you enlarge the photo.  Foam tape was used to mount the sentiment.  Dies are from Unity stamps.

I kept both of these cards fairly CAS and did not add dimensional like gems or enamel dots so that they could be mailed more easily.

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