With Sympathy and Prayers

 Recently, a good friend lost her baby brother to cancer - he was 44.  It was devastating news.  When he was born, she was like a second momma to him.  

I'm loving this set by Arjita Singh from Gina K. Designs called Sweet Memories.  Those flowers are just lovely and the sentiments are touching for some sad situations.  

For this A2 size card, I dragged out my much neglected Copic markers to color in the flowers and leaves.  I used a 3-D embossing folder to add dimension to the white cardstock, added a base of shimmery pink and mounted that to some printed paper from the Bo Bunny 6" paper pack called Pincushion.  The sentiments are from the same Sweet Memories set from Gina K. Designs.  I used Gina K. Designs Master Layouts 2 to cut out the white cardstock and the sentiments banner.  I fussy cut the "With Sympathy" sentiment and shadow.  I used 2 layers of foam tape to pop that banner to give it 

a lot of dimension. 

Happy Crafting!

Joyce

Summer Themed Challenges - Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamps

Summer Themed Challenges!!

It has been a very long time since I have participated in a challenge but both Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamps are having a great summer theme challenges.  What says summer more than daisies? 

We are camping this week, so I had to improvise with my photo a bit, but I think it turned out all right.  The card is resting on the spare tire of our motor home with the beautiful Wisconsin north woods in the background.  I will take the opportunity to craft anytime, anywhere!  

I used quite a list of supplies for this card.   That sentiment stamp and the die cut of the word blessing both come from the Hero Arts set Blessings Stamp & Cut.  They go perfectly together.  I cut about 3 or 4 of the word Blessings out of black cardstock and stacked them to create more strength and depth to that sentiment.  

For those daisies in the background, I used the Gina K Designs stencil from the Spring Daisies set.   I also used several Gina K inks - Powder Blue, Blue Denim, Grass Green, Fresh Asparagus and for the sentiment, I used Momento Tuxedo Black.  I also used the Gina K. Designs Master Layouts 2.  Such a handy set.  

That lovely, soft green gingham paper is from a Bo Bunny 6" paper pack called Pincushion.  

I will be entering this card in the current Hero Arts Stay Crafty Challenge - Celebrate Summer and the Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge - Summer Mood Board.  

Happy Sunday! Have a wonderful, safe week.

Joyce M.

May All Your Dreams Come True

We recently attended the high school graduation party for my great niece.  She is an exceptional young lady who is going to go far in life.  I wanted to create a card to reflect that.  

I am still learning when it comes to ink blending with stencils so I have been doing a lot of practicing.  I used this stencil I had in my craft room.  I am not even sure what brand it is.   The inks also were from my stash of supplies from many years ago.  Most are dew drops inks.  I like how this turned out but definitely will be getting more practice.  

This week, we are camping in Northern Wisconsin.  As usual, I packed a bunch of paper craft supplies with me and hope to spend a little time creating each day.  I have gotten a couple of cards completed and I hope to get those posted soon.  

More soon,

Joyce