Floral Spray, Peace on Earth, Sympathy Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a sympathy card to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Berry Burst card stock for the layer. I chose that color because the piece was sitting on my worktable with the layer I cut from the center for yesterday's card. So why not use it before it gets ruined? I taped that piece to the front of the card base.

Next I cut the front piece from Basic White card stock. It measures 3-7/8" x 5-1/8". I cut the square in the upper part using the largest square die in the "Stylish Shapes" set. I also used this as my guide for the embossed image.

I stamped the floral image using the "Floral Spray" embossing folder. I set the piece with the square cut out on it over the textured piece to find the best image I could that would fit in that opening.  Once I found what I liked I trimmed it up and taped it to the Berry Burst piece.

The words were stamped next. I used a retired set (Peace on Earth)  and Basic Black Hybrid ink to stamp them. You want to give this ink a good minuted to dry. I touched it and smeared it a little but I was able to clean it up using my art gum kneadable eraser. I love that eraser. It picks up graphite (and other stuff) without making the paper pill. I even removed the eraser from my mechanical pencil, pinched off a piece of the kneadable eraser and formed it into a drumstick ice cream cone shape and pushed it into the place where the eraser goes. Because it's kneadable you can work it by stretching it and rolling it between your thumb and forefinger and get it soft and even more kneadable. Then shape it to fit where you want.  I love having it at the end of my mechanical pencils.  Just make sure you have a large enough piece so it goes deep into the eraser opening or it will just roll out.  Okay, sales pitch is done. LOL I added Dimensionals to the back of the piece and set it in place on top of the card base.

I had some retired embellishments from the "Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots" package and I set them in place on the front of the card and the card was done.

This was a very quick and easy sympathy card to make. I think it would make a nice card for other occasions too. It's an easy layout to play with too.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's sympathy card,
Wanda