Floral Sympathy Card

Making a handmade sympathy card is a lovely way to express your condolences when someone you know passes away. I usually make sympathy cards only when needed but I liked the way this sentiment looked with the flowers on this card.

For the design of this card I have cased an example from page 6 of the Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration brochure. I started with a base of Crumb Cake and layered a piece of patterned paper from the Love Blossoms paper stack. Then using a slightly smaller piece of Botanical Gardens Vellum I stamped three leaves with VersaMark and embossed them with Wild Wasabi emboss powder (retired). The vellum was then adhered on top of the patterned paper. Next I stamped all the flowers from the What I Love stamp set onto Whisper White cardstock. It was hard to decided what colors to make the flowers but I love purple, so that's what I used. The outline is Elegant Eggplant, then Wisteria Wonder was used with the larger solid piece, then Perfect Plum  for the smaller solid piece. To add some sparkle I heat embossed some Iridescent Ice emboss powder on top of the smaller solid piece. The little yellow flowers are So Saffron ink sponged onto Whisper White cardstock and then stamped with Crushed Curry. Garden Green was used to stamp the smaller leaves and then the leaves and flowers were fussy-cut. The sentiment is from the Bloom with Hope retired hostess set and was stamped using Crumb Cake. Once all the stamping was done the purple flowers were adhered with dimensionals and the leaves and yellow flowers were adhered flat to the card. That's it! 

This Floral Sympathy Card is entered into the following challenges:

• SU-Only: Use Sale-A-Bration Products
• Cute Card Thursday: Florals
• Crafty Gals: Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes

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