I was having a look through my card box and finding that they are mostly birthdays, so I have decided to try and build up a stock of 'other' cards too. The cards I find most difficult to make are sympathy cards, so I thought I would see what I could come up with.
The lotus is a multi-step stamp set from SU, the sentiment is from my collection, possibly Woodware? I kept to purple, black and white, with a touch of silver on the first one - that whole frame was to cover up a little mark which mysteriously appeared on the card after I had assembled it!! It looks quite effective and I'm not sure which one I prefer. Purple for sympathy cards always seems appropriate to me, it was the Victorian colour of mourning.
Having set up the lotus on the stamp platform, I thought I would do a batch, but getting back to birthday cards!
It's fun playing around with colours to see what works :-) Yellow and two shades of orange for the first, then pale pink and two purples. The sentiment is from Stamping all Day.
The mats and stamping background are all die-cut, using Rare Earth dies, which fit an A6 card perfectly.
Love the simplicity of these cards, especially the sympathy ones, they really work.
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