With Sympathy

Good Sunday morning all!  While today's card has been finished as a sympathy card, it is definitely one of those designs that would be suited to other sentiments too.  I decided to share it though as so many people email me about the difficulty of making sympathy cards.  My belief is to keep them simple and most styles will work and feel appropriate.  I started the card by stamping the Layered carnation stamp all over a piece of Blue Dusk card to add some pattern to the background.  Next I cut the Avery die in white and added a sky blue backing to it.  I cut the outer decorative die as a large backing piece for it and then cut the inner die as a base for my sentiment.  I cut the With Sympathy in black (wish I had used it as a shadow for a blue sentiment though).  I cut a single Layered Carnation stamp with the matching Layered carnation die and inked the edges of it with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink and added two leaves as accents.  I made a multi layered white frame using the Double Stitched Squares and framed it.  The card was completed with Blue dusk, black and white mats and layers.  The finished dimensions are 8" x  8" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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