Case This Sketch #99 Sympathy Card

Do you have a hard time creating sympathy cards?  I sure do! They are very important and must be sent.  Yet it's hard to convey the gesture of sympathy in a card.  So I made one today and figured I'd share it here not only to hopefully inspire you but also to inspire myself in case I need a similar card in the future.  I am not very good at keeping things organized on my hard drive!

I sought out the latest Case this Sketch challenge #99.   I love how customizable this sketch is!  I could definitely see me using this again!

Below is my sympathy card.

It uses Stampin' Up's beautiful stamp set called "Just Believe"  and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's "round and round" anniversary set. A few trims, pearls and a bow rose finish up the card.  The bow and rose were actually one colored and I colored the rose brown with Copics to match the rest of the card.  The butterfly is from my 3-D butterflies file.  The butterfly was actually blue cut for another project but not needed.  I simply colored it with Copics too.  These markers were quite an investment in the beginning but I have found soo many money saving uses for them!

If you would like to purchase my file please click here or the preview below.

I will be posting other cards here soon so please stop back.  Oh and I will also be posting some of my favorite homemade cleaning recipes too.   Thanks for visiting!

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Card A Day Blog: Thank You, Color Throwdown #277 and Case this Sketch #61

Hello!  I am here!  Just haven't had as a much a chance to create as I did last week.  I was thankful it is my turn to design for Card A Day blog this week.  Ha..I didn't even realize I said thankful in the last sentence...kinda fitting since the theme this week is Thank You cards.   I'm sad to say I don't send these type of cards very often.  I must make more of an effort to do so in the future.

So once again I sought out challenges to point me in the right direction when starting this card.  First the wonderfully romantic color scheme came from Color Throwdown latest challenge #277.

I found this paper in my stash that basically contained all the colors in the challenge although the blue is a little different but they say substitutes are okay.  Next I sought out the latest Case This Sketch #61

I absolutely loved the white tree in the photo so I used my Stampin' Up Season of Friendship stamp and heat embossed it plus the leaves in white.  I placed the tree behind a rolling hill.  I freehand cut the hill and added a slight texture to it using a Stampin' Up texture plate. I added some punched flowers with pearl centers to the tree/hill some baker's twine finished off the hill.  Oh and the sentiment stamp came from Papertrey Ink's everyday classics anniversary set.   A friend of mine gave me that ruffled trim...I keep pulling it out to try to use on cards but it never looked right..but this time I think the ruffle is a perfect accent..what do you think?

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