I made this card last week to keep in my box of cards. When I showed it to my son Patrick (he is great at critiquing my projects in a nice way, lol) he said
"OH, this would be perfect for Linda".
"LINDA???, Why???" <<<me in shock
"Well. her mom just passed away" he said matter of factly.
"Oh, NO, why didn't anyone tell me?" sniff
"I don't know." as only a 23 year year old son could say
Linda, her husband and kids moved to PA a few years ago and we keep in touch through the kids, lol. The kids went to school together since 2nd grade. My boys have become like adopted sons to them and Travis has become an adopted son to us. Homes away from homes...I love having Travis around.
All I did was use an embossing folder for the bottom layer, score edges with my Score-pal. run my Krylon gold marker around the edges, emboss the sentiment in gold, added a little gold to the flower with the marker, put on a pretty ribbon (also from Paper Temptress), add pearls colored with the marker and adhered with dimensionals, giving me a fast and pretty card.
Phew...that sounds like a lot of steps, but they are all so quick.
For the inside sentiment, I stamped in gold and embossed with clear powder since the metallic inks never seem to dry for me and I was not sure if Versa Fine would stamp clearly.
This was such a quick to put together card, I now can make a few to keep on hand.
They other type of card I need to make and keep on hand is a masculine card! But that is a whole other post....
I am going to enter this card in the Blogger Challenge Embossing Challenge which is Embossing this week.
Hugs,
20 comments:
This is a beautiful sympathy card. Love the white on white. The gold accents are an elegant touch.
Gorgeous card. Love the Gold with the white.
Sorry to hear of the loss of your friend.
Sooo elegant and beautiful. Sorry it is for such a sad occasion.
Beautiful sympathy card, I'm sure the family will find comfort in your card. Thanks for playing along with the Bloggers Challenge.
Such a beautiful and tasteful card. Excellent!
Such a beautiful card. I agree with you too....I never have a single sympathy card in my stash when I need one either.
Very pretty and elegant card!
What a beautiful card- very elegant- love it!
Such a beautifully detailed and stylish card.
Hello my friend ... so good to see you blogging again!! This card is just gorgeous and you are correct ... we need to have a few of these in our stash for those unexpected moments! Sorry to hear of your friend's mom passing ... this card will bring her great comfort!!
I think this is one of the prettiest sympathy cards I've ever seen. Your friend will absolutely cherish it. If I were you, I'd make more of this same card -- it absolutely says, "I love you".
Very elegant card! Thanks for playing along with the blogger's Challenge!
Very Nice Sandy - Sympathy Cards are a tough one - Looks great love the gold embossed border - kudos. I would love you to check out my submission (#21) also posted on my blog
This is wonderful! Love the gold embossing. Beautiful!
This is very elegant and pretty. A very nice sympathy card.
Beautiful Sympathy card! Very elegant.
This is a beautiful sympathy card. The embossing gives it such elegance.
What a beautiful sympathy card, sorry to hear about your friends' Mom. Thanks for joining us at Blogger's Challenge.
This is stunning. It's sure to be appreciated by its recipient. (And I hear you....23 year olds are kind of a breed unto themselves....I have TWO of them! They really are rather clueless, aren't they?!!)
This is beautiful! So elegant.
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