Sending Love and Sympathy

This past month has been extremely hectic!  But I think we are back to our normal pace.  The days of summer have flown by and the extreme heat has arrived.  My car thermometer reached 100 degrees this afternoon!

Sadly, a friend's husband passed away today so I made a special card for her.  The cards in my stash just did not seem right. 

Sorry about the poor picture.  This really is a pretty card:  the base card is a lovely green and the dark card is blackberry bliss (I think).  I love green and purple together.  I off stamped the dots and leaves to get a slightly lighter color and punched the butterflies out of small pieces of scrap paper and added a couple rhinestones.  I tried different colored twine, but this purple seemed to fit the best. 

Hope your weekend is wonderful and cool!
Kathy

Deepest Sympathy and Card Swap

This week I have been working on card swap elements.  Each participant sends a few elements of a card to other participants and then we are to create a card using those bits and pieces. 

Here is one of my finished cards.  I saw a similar card on Pinterest and loved the simplicity of the layout. 

 

And here is a picture of the pieces I received.  Using a couple different inks,  I sponged the autumn colors on the leaves.  The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

I'm entering this card in the Paper Smooches November Challenge

The challenge is to use gold on the card.  The little gold sequins add just a touch of gold and finish the card nicely.

Almost the weekend.  We are to get a lot of rain so I'll probably have time to work on the last swap card.

Take care,

Kathy

Deepest Sympathy

Sadly, we seem to need sympathy cards more this year than ever.  So, with some of my favorite colors -- so soothing  -- I created this sympathy card using pretty paper in my stash and Paper Smooches stamps.  I punched out the butterflies and added a few pearls. 

I'll post this card to the Paper Smooches SPARKS Anything Goes Challenge


Take care,
Kathy

Here are some cards I made in "class."  I don't have a lot of stamps, so I really enjoy her ideas and creativity!

These cards will be great to send to men.   The cards have lots of layers and stamping.  All Stampin Up products, too.


Take care,
Kathy

Pet Sympathy Card #2

Below is the second pet sympathy card I made. 

 

Again, I used Publisher to print the sentiment and paw.  I added a few layers to this card keeping the message as the focal point.

Take care,

Kathy

 

Pet Sympathy Card

Sadly, a pet sympathy card was needed.  My friends' dog passed away a couple weeks ago and they were really depressed.  So I wanted them to know I was thinking of them. 

I made three different cards and will post each over the next few days.  Here is the first:

 

I used Publisher to make this card as I did not have a paw stamp and I printed the sentiment, too.

sigh,

Kathy

Altered Notebook

A couple weeks ago someone asked me to make an altered notebook for them.  The person was requesting a memorial book for her father's funeral as she didn't really care for the books offered by the funeral home.   

Changing a regular composition notebook (you know, the notebooks with the speckled black and white covers) with designer paper can be fun and also quite challenging.   Finding the right paper and designing a cover is the challenge and that can take a little bit of time.

Before I glued the paper to the notebook, I stamped a tree in green and brown (from SU Thoughts and Prayers) on the bottom and added a border line along the left side.    Then I attached a black ribbon (it has a light green line in the center) to run along the edge of the paper.   The printed paper has a light green cast so I sponged the date card a little with light green ink ( the white area is the spot for the name).

   The back of the notebook was also covered with a pretty designer paper.

 

I added a piece of white card stock to the inside of the front and back covers to give the notebook a nice clean finished look.  The card stock covers the outside paper edges that were folded inside. 

 

I used a glue stick to adhere the papers on this notebook.  Yesterday I made another altered notebook and used Mod Podge to glue the designer paper on the cover.  The paper did not stick well to the notebook, but I don't think the problem was the Mod Podge.  The problem may have been with the paper texture or the glossy finish on the inside of the composition notebook.   After a few coats of MP, the paper finally adhered to the notebook.    I'm going to try the Mod Podge with different paper and a different composition notebook and will post those results.

Thinking of You

I love one layer cards.  The cards are so clean and simple as in CAS -- just love it!

Happy Sunday,
Kathy

Hydrangea Notecard Set

Hydrangeas are one of my favorite flowers (geraniums are number one) so I really enjoyed making these simple yet so pretty notecards.

The hydrangea stamp is from the Stampin Up  'Just Because' set.

Have a great week,
Kathy