Sunday 12 January 2020

Sympathy Card with Craft O'clock papers

A dear friend of mine lost her brother recently, and I wasn't able to get together and share condolences in person, so I wanted to make a special card for her. These beautiful papers from Craft O'Clock were perfect with their soft colours and lovely flowers that I could fussy cut and pop up for dimension. I inked everything with olive green to add a bit of interest and contrast, and used dies from my stash for the cross, foliage, and sentiment. The sentiment originally had a box around it, but it looked to big and bulky on the card so I trimmed it off. I cut a little deeper between some of the flower petals so I could lift and curl them just a little for added dimension.


As you can see, I kept the design fairly simple, as the elements themselves had plenty of detail. Unfortunately I had already mailed it when I realized the photo was less than wonderful, so please forgive the uneven lighting and shadows. Wishing you a great day, and I hope any cards you make are for happier occasions...xx

More magnetic mini canvases

Hi there, friends! A while back I made some mini canvases for Creative Artiste, and I brought them to the Art and Heirloom Shoppe in Chatham where I display mixed media pieces to sell. (I don't have room in my house to keep everything! LOL) They sold quickly and the owner asked if I had any more, so I pulled out some supplies and created these:








These were so much fun to create, coming up with saying to use for some of the images and using lots of random bits from my stash.

Have a terrific week, and keep on creating!