Friday, September 3, 2010

Another sympathy card

Another day, another sympathy card ... I chose a very clean & simple design for this card.

The image is offered free by Paper Garden Projects - check them out as they have several beautiful, realistic flower images to offer. I realized after colouring the images that they should have been white (the flowers are snowdrops) but I really love the look of purple flowers with the green stems/leaves so I decided not to redo them. Purple is also a favourite colour of mine for sympathy cards, in particular. I don't know why, but purple just seems to have some majesty/sentimentality/serenity to it.

I cut out each of the three images with a Quickutz cookie cutter die and then matted it on a piece of purple Bazzil cardstock trimmed to be just slightly bigger. Then the purple is matted on a white cardstock that is border punched on both sides (using Fiskars "Lace" punch) to give the impression of lace. I added a few pearls to give the card a bit of shine and richness.

As I said, very simple ... I played around with embossing the base cardstock and adding various other embellishments but I kept coming back to this very simple design.

Challenges:
The Crafty Pad - simply pearls
The Pink Elephant - mostly white
My Time to Craft - in the garden
Crafty Creations - white plus one
Simon Says Stamps - pearls & lace

9 comments:

  1. Pretty image! I like how you outlines it with the pretty purple paper too!

    Thanks so much for entering the Simon Says Stamp Challenge!!!

    -Sarah

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  2. Gorgeous card Shelly :-) I love the flowers and the papers and colours you used are lovely :-) Perfect card for a sad occasion, I tend to use purple too !

    thanks for joining the Simon Says Stamp Challenge :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  3. Beautiful! I love the very subtle color purple of the flowers. Thanks so much for joining us this week at Crafty Creations!
    Melissa

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  4. Beautiful card, love the lace detail & those snowdrops do look nice in purple!
    Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations.
    Sharon x

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  5. I like the look of the purple flowers too. I would have never known they are naturally white. Like them in the shade you used. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations!

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  6. Very nice card and fitting for the occasion. Love how you have placed the pearls. :)
    Thanks for joining us at The Crafty Pad. :)

    xxDebbiexx

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  7. beautiful sympathy card. Thanks for sharing it with us at CCC this week.

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  8. Beautiful card!! Thank you so much for playing along with us at The Pink Elephant
    Sheri-TPE DT

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  9. Beautiful card and lovely layout!Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp, hugs, Jane xxx

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