Stampin' Up! sympathy card tutorial

Stampin' Up! Sympathy Card

I hope your having a good Sunday so far. I unfortunetly needed a Sympathy card for the death of a young child.  I love to make cards but not for this reason. This is the card I came up with. You could use this card and change up the saying. I really like it. Let me tell you how.

Sympathy card tutorial...

1. Using Chocolate Chip cardstock as my card base it measures 5-1/2"x11", fold at 5-1/2"
2. I used Marina Mist cardstock measuring 5-1/2"x4" and ran it through the Bigshot using the Lattice embossing folder.
3. Using chocolate chip cardstock measuring 2-1/2"x4" and rounding only two opposite corners and layering that with Very Vanilla cardstock measureing 2-1/4"x3-3/4" rounding the same corners as the previous piece of Chocolate chip cardstock. I stamped on the Very Vanilla using the En Francis stamp in Chocolate chip ink and placed that on the front of the card on the Marina Mist.
4. I used the 4th largest circle framelit to cut a Very Vanilla circle for the front which I inked the edges with a sponge using Chocolate Chip ink pad. I stamped my sentament on the front and then glued it to the front.
5.  Next I took a piece of Marina Mist cardstock and stamped using the Secret Garden flower stamp using Versa mark ink pad. I then used Whisper White embossing powder and heat embossed the flowers.
6. I then used the Secret Garden Framelits to cut those flowers out. I also used the Secret Garden leaf framelit and cut out some leaves using Old Olive cardstock.
7. I cut out a center flower from the big flower and layered them using dimensionals, this really makes the flowers stand out. I cut the leaves and placed them around each flower. Here is an example.

I hope you give this card a try and hope it is not as a sympathy card. Love to see what you come up with and hear your comments. Until next time keep stampin with Katherine! Feel free to email me your order or shop online at my store.