Hi everyone, I haven’t been doing any crafting due to a recent holiday, a couple of slight health issues, and general life busy-ness! However I needed a sympathy card so I quickly got busy. I always think that sympathy cards should be simple and understated, as their primary purpose is not to showcase our crafty prowess, and this one is about as simple as it gets.
I cut a 14cm square of white stamping card, and created a soft watercolour flower spray by colouring my stamp with Zig pens then lightly spritzing with water. I created a soft watercolour wash around the flowers with watered down Elements ink, then stamped the sentiment using Medieval Blue Versafine Clair and the birds using Morning Mist. I matted the panel onto a dark blue border and then a 6” square card blank. I hope it has a tranquil feel to it.
Stamps: Unity Stamps Insightful Meadows; Lavinia Birds, Heartfelt Verses;
Media: Versafine Clair (Medieval Blue, Morning Mist); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Lavinia Elements ink (Della Blue).
Challenges I would like to enter:
Beautiful Blossoms #45 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)
Crafts Galore Encore #152 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz #720 - Anything Goes
Creative Crafters #104 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Creative Inspiration #43 - Anything Goes
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes
Simply Clean and Simple (October) - Anything CAS Goes
Triple B (October) - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies
Word Art Wednesday #772/773 - Anything Goes
Hope you are all having a great weekend. Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
11 comments:
Simple and beautiful, the watercolour effect is lovely.
Thank you for joining in at Crafty Catz.
xx
Love the beautiful watercolour flower spray and flock of birds-a perfect sympathy card-says all you nee.
carol x
A beautiful and peaceful sympathy card!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Triple B!
Diane
{Nellies Nest}
Triple B Co-Owner
Oh Pauline, this is so, so pretty and perfect design for a sympathy card! Well done! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Simply Clean & Simple and Triple B challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Simply Clean & Simple Co-Owner
Triple B Co-Owner
Yes, I agree about the simplicity for such cards and this is a beautiful example., perfect way to show someone that they are in your thoughts
Pauline, you’ve created a beautiful sympathy card here. I agree with you, they are often difficult for me to create because I don’t wanna put too much into it but want them to look really nice. You’ve done a great job balancing that. I love how the soft flowers look against that background. I hope all is well with you and that you’ll be back to crafting more. Life sometimes does have a way of getting in the way! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We appreciate your participation!
A beautiful CAS design, I too agree it's all that is needed for a sympathy card.
Was thinking of you the other day when you hadn't posted your new Lavinia calendar page. Always looking forward to those :)
The “less is more” approach to sympathy cards is always the best way to go and this card is a lovely example of how to get it just right. xxx
A lovely sympathy card, and I love the watercolour effect. Avril x
This is lovely Pauline - I love that watercolour effect. Hope you are feeling better - thanks for sharing with us at Love to Craft
This looks simply gorgeous. Such a comforting card.
Thank you so much for playing along with us at the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge. I hope to see you again for the next challenge.
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