…through the dancing poppies stole a breeze, most softly lulling to my soul

Had to make up a sympathy card tonight for a colleague whose father passed away and used Wild Poppy Silhouette from Donna Downey Studios teamed with a stamp from Kimmie’s Sympathy Set by Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps on it.

I didn’t expect to have the chance to play along again over at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers but this is a ‘dispatching’ card so am joining Edna again.  Hoping for better news when I get in to work tomorrow that may lead to a hat trick if someone is hatching and hopefully that someone appreciates snark!

I’m just under the wire to enter this over at TGIF where their theme is sympathy or get well cards.  Truly one of “those” occasions as they say, sometimes the hardest cards to choose supplies for and the absolute hardest to find words to write inside but I think also the ones most appreciated.

Ended up going with watercoloured flowers on this one using an old stamp, wasn’t sure how old but found blog posts featuring it from 2013.  The sentiment is also from a long since retired set, think I’ve had mine at least a couple of years and bought it on clearance.  With all my old rubber and flowers I am also linking this up at Retro Rubber.

Ingredients:

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Old Olive

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Aged Mahogany, Barn Door, Forest Moss & Mowed Lawn

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Stamps

Donna Downey Studios ~ Wild Poppy Silhouette

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ Kimmie’s Sympathy Set

Challenges

Retro Rubber #62 ~ Hello Spring!

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #84 ~ H is for Hatching, Matching and Dispatching

TGIF #107 ~ “Those” Occasions: Sympathy or Get Well

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If I but remember only…

I had to make a sympathy card and Leanne’s Angel from Aurora Wings was the perfect image for it.

My card follows the sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch, although it is kind of hard to see the stripe elements.  I added them with some Twinkling H2O’s before stamping my sentiment from Kimmie’s Sympathy Set, a retired Kraftin’ Kimmie set, and embossing that in white.  Trying to photograph a mostly white card is really difficult and the foiled image, which was done in Opal foil, has come up looking silver.

With my shiny foil and glittery H2O’s I have lots of sparkle, although done in what I hope is an elegant way, so I am linking up my card at Allsorts.  As I have an angel as my image I am also entering my card in the current challenge at Incy Wincy, where they are looking for something magical.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Wow! Embossing Powder ~ Opaque Bright White

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Twinkling H2O’s ~ Heavenly & Pearl Blue

Papers

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Fig Swirl and Blackberry Swirl

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Great White

iCraft Deco Foil ~ Opal

Stamps

Aurora Wings ~ Leanne’s Angel

Kraftin’ Kimmie ~ Kimmie’s Sympathy Set (retired)

Challenges

Allsorts #374 ~ A touch of sparkle

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #183

Incy Wincy ~ Something Magical!

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The next moment the day became very bothering indeed…

The card I’m sharing today features a retired image from Strömstad Scrapbooking, the adorable Birdie with Elephant Sorry.

I’ve made up my card following the sketch at SugarPea Designs and taken inspiration from the sprinkles on the image to make a shaker card.  I didn’t have any sequins to add to my shaker mix so I made my own using Elizabeth Craft Shimmer Sheetz and punches.

My colour palette comes from the current challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches.  I am not so great picking colour combos, I knew I wanted to use yellow as the recipient loves yellow so this palette was just perfect especially given my chosen image.  I used the best matches I had for the colours and used a Stampin’ Up to Copic colour chart created by Judy May to select the colours to use on my image.

Over at Cards 4 Galz they are looking for projects with no patterned paper, which my CAS card is certainly devoid of so I am entering my card there.  To finish it off I stamped my sentiment in Mustard Seed Distress Ink.  It was a little small so I used the swirl from one of the stamps in the Close To My Heart Holiday Commentary set to fill the space on my flag diecut.  Finished off with a resin flower in the closest colour I had to taupe.

Ingredients:

Copics

Bird BG09, Y11, Y15, Y19, YR12, YR18, 0

Elephant BG09, E40, E41, E42, E44, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter ~ Mustard Seed

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Clearly Besotted Dies ~ Long Flag (CBDLO156)

Fiskars Punches ~ Circles, Heart & Star

Embellishments

Pizzazz Aplenty ~ 2mm & 4mm Flatback Rhinestones Gold & Royal Blue

Resin Flower from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Mermaid, Mushroom & Sunshine Yellow

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mustard Seed

Papers

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Blue Calypso & Glow

Elizabeth Crafts Shimmer Sheetz ~ Blue Iridescent & White Iridescent (coloured with Alcohol Inks)

Stamps

Close To My Heart ~ C1379 Holiday Commentary (retired)

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ Kimmie’s Sympathy Set (retired)

Strömstad Scrapbooking ~ Birdie with Elephant Sorry (retired)

Challenges

Cards 4 Galz # 27 ~ No Patterned Paper

CAS Colours and Sketches #183 ~ Colours

SugarPea Designs #8 ~ Mix It Up Challenge

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