I love that our Painted Poppies set is carrying over into the next annual catalog because it is such a sweet set and I love using the Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers to bring out the colors! This set is great for any occasion, even the more solemn ones.
Begin with a Highland Heather card base that measures 5½ x 8½. In landscape position, (aka the long side) score at 4¼. Fold and burnish. This will create a card base.
Cut a 4 x 5 ¼” panel from Basic Black and attach it to the card front.
Next cut a 3 ¾ x 5” piece of Basic White and stamp the garden of poppies from the Painted Poppy set across the bottom. Color the poppies with some Stampin’ Blend alcohol markers. I used Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo and Dark Balmy Blue.
Stamp the big poppy on a piece of Basic White scrap and color it with the light and dark Highland Heather Stampin’ Blends. Fussy cut it out with some paper snips and add it to the poppy garden with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
Stamp the “With Sympathy” greeting from Vine Designs in Memento Black ink.
For the inside, cut a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Basic White cardstock and stamp the greeting from Peaceful Moments in Memento Black ink. Add the other large poppy from Painted Poppies and color with the Highland Heather combo pack of Stampin’ Blends.
Although I needed a sympathy card, this would make a great Easter card as well. The multi-colored poppies really bring out a bit of Spring!
Thanks for stopping by! Until next time, be blessed, Renae
Before COVID 19 I started a card making group at my parish as part of The Healing of Hearts Ministry. We would gather quarterly and pray for sick parishioners and those shut-in and unable to attend church services. We would also make cards to send, get-well, thinking of you, and sympathy. I planned the card designs, but we created them as a group.
I mailed out cards on behalf of the group to those in need and we would send everyone on the list a Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter card. The coronavirus has put a huge damper on our gathers, in fact we have not met since November of 2019.
You may not think that a simple card can make a difference, but it can and it does. I have heard from a number of parishioners that they enjoy getting this kind of happy mail. It reminds them that they are important and that someone really does care. We all need that don’t you think?
Today’s card featuring Healing Hugs is a sample of one of the cards made for our community.
Begin with a Pretty Peacock card base that measures 5 ½ x 8 ½ ”. In landscape position, (aka the long side) score at 4 ¼”. Fold and burnish.
Cut a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of the Basic White cardstock and stamp the several of the large flower from Healing Hugs in Pretty Peacock ink.
On a scrap piece of Basic White cardstock stamp a large flower, again in Pretty Peacock ink and fussy cut out. Use a sponge dauber to add Pretty Peacock ink to the edges in a flicking motion around the flower.
Add the cut out flower to the stamped flowers on the Basic White panel.
Stamp the greeting in Pretty Peacock ink on a piece of Basic White scrap and punch out using the scalloped oval from the double oval punch. Next punch two scalloped ovals in Pretty Peacock cardstock.
Cut one scalloped oval in half lengthwise and the other in half widthwise. Attach the pieces to the white scalloped oval creating a Pretty Peacock border and attach to the white card panel of flowers and adhere to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Next attach the panel of flowers to the Pretty Peacock card front.
For the inside, cut a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of Basic White cardstock to inside panel and stamp the greeting in Pretty Peacock Ink.
Repeat the process of stamping one flower directly to the cardstock and stamping two others to a piece of Basic White scrap and fussy cut out.
Again use the sponge dauber to add a darker dimension around the outside using a flicking motion around all edges. Attach the flowers to the white card panel.
I layered the flowers in the lower left corner hanging off the cardstock and trimmed them before attaching to the inside panel.
This Healing Hugs stamp set is in the annual 2020-2021 catalog. Don’t forget this catalog will only be available through the end of April. The Pretty Peacock ink and cardstock used in this card sample will be retiring. If you have all the 2019-2021 ink pads but not the re-inkers, now is the time to add those to your shopping cart.
Retiring items in the 2020-2021 annual catalog will be while supplies last so don’t delay. Once the retired list is available, I will post it here on my blog, but again if you do not have those re-inkers, I would not take the chance on waiting! Yes, that is experience talking, what can I say!
Order before the end of the day Sunday February 28th while it is still Sale-a-Brations! Our Host code is: WYXSZPMJ Happy stamping and Happy shopping!
It is always sad when we have to create sympathy cards for our loved ones, but what a great opportunity to use our awesome products and our creative crafting talents to bless others.
A good friend of mine recently lost her husband and I hope she will take comfort in this simple Sympathy card made just for her.
I created this card using the Framed For You and the Heal Your Heart stamp sets. I love the calming yet elegant font in the Heal your Heart set!
Begin with a Blackberry Bliss card base that measures 5 ½ x 8 ½ ”. In landscape position, (aka the long side) score at 4 ¼”. Fold and burnish.
Cut a 4 x 5 ¼” piece of the Basic White cardstock and stamp the several flowers in Blackberry Bliss ink in the upper left corner. Add some leaves and ferns in Shaded Spruce ink. Attach to the front of the Blackberry Bliss card base.
To the center of the flowers, add a silver metallic pearl. I also added an extra one to the fern and to the greeting.
Use the double oval punch to punch a scalloped oval from Blackberry Bliss cardstock. Use a scrap piece of Basic White cardstock to stamp the With Sympathy greeting in Blackberry Bliss ink. Punch out the greeting using the smooth oval from the Double Oval Punch.
Attach to the front of the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add a small silver pearl to the greeting.
Cut a 4 x 5¼” piece of White cardstock and stamp the greeting from the Heal Your Heart set in Blackberry ink and attach the cardstock to the inside panel of the card base.
Feel free to embellish the inside with flowers and leaves or leave it plain as in the sample.
I know sending sympathy cards is never fun and my heart breaks for those who have lost a love one, especially, a significant other! Let us lift up in prayer and send our loving thoughts to all those who have loved and lost!
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but thank God we have such beautiful cards to cheer others up. Thank you Stampin’ Up! for creating such awesome coordinating products!
I am going to challenge you to make a card today to send to someone. It does not have to be for any special occasion, just send a thinking of you card.
It could quite possibly be the best part of there day. Not only that when you create something beautiful to brighten someone else’s day, it just make you feel good too!
Begin with a Night of Navy card base 5 ½ x 8 ½”. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Using the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine and the Stitched So Sweetly dies, cut a frame from Night of Navy cardstock and a frame from Basic White cardstock. Stamp the greeting “sending you healing hugs” from So Sentimental in Night of Navy ink on the Basic White cardstock. If you prefer to stamp first and then cut out that works as well! You do you! Attach the White frame to the Night of Navy frame.
Layer a piece of In Good Times Designer Series paper that measures 3 x 4” on the left side of the card base.
Using Stampin’ Dimensionals, attached the Night of Navy and greeting frames to the front of the card base.
Add three gold metallic pearls on the lower right corner.
For the inside cut a 4 x 5 ¼” layer of White cardstock and with Night of Navy ink, stamp the greeting from the Heal Your Heart sale-a-bration set.
The Night of Navy tiny heart is from the Kangaroo dies.
There is still time for you to earn the Heal your Heart. Sale-A-Bration will continue next month, so with a $50 purchase, you can get this set FREE! Don’t forget to use the Host Code:ZDHDYH2D Thank you so much for your order.
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s January Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are having fun with our stamping favorites – our favorite themes for seasonal cards and projects. This month’s projects feature hearts, so prepare yourself for lots and lots of love. We are excited to share our creations with you today! After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
Today’s blog hop inspired me to create two fun fold heart cards and instead of the traditional red and pink hearts, I used the Heartfelt Bundle, Misty Moonlight ink and the New Misty Moonlight Designers Series Paper pack that will be featured in the next annual catalog.
Card #1 Begin with a standard white card base and cut 2¼” from the front of the card. Turning it in landscape position, add three hearts along the cut edge of the cardstock, attaching only the top half of the hearts to the card front. The third heart is attached in the middle with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
The hearts were created using the Misty Moonlight Designer Series paper and the two punches from the Heartfelt Bundle. The stamped heart and the sentiment, although visible when the card is closed, is actually the inside and stamped directly on the card base in Misty Moonlight ink.
The smaller fancy heart is stamped on white scrap, cut out using the paper snips and attached to the larger heart with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
The inside greeting, from Heal Your Heart is stamped in Misty Moonlight ink. This Heal Your Heart stamp set is part of the Sale-A-Brations event and can be yours FREE with a $50 purchase through February of 2021.
Card # 2 This is another fun fold card with a few extra challenges. The outside image of this card is actually a combination of the card base front (Misty Moonlight) and an extension of the inside layer (Basic White) creating a fun fold.
Begin with a Misty Moonlight card base 5 ½ x 8 ½. Score in landscape position at 4 ¼”.
Next cut a 5 ½ x 6 ½ piece of Basic White cardstock and in landscape position, score at 4 ¼”, this will create the inside portion of the card and the flap that folds to the front of the Misty Moonlight card front.
Attach the white that measures 4¼ x 5½” to the inside of the Misty Moonlight card base and stamp the Happy Valentines Day heart greeting in the center. The 2¼ x 5 ½” flap will fold to the outside of the card.
On the 2¼ x 5 ½” flap stamp the small heart in Misty Moonlight ink on both sides. Again, this flap will fold to the front of the card.
Using the hearts from the Heartfelt bundle, stamp and punch 4 large hearts.
Attach two of the hearts to the outside and two hearts to the inside of the white 2¼ x 5 ½” flap, aligning the center of the hearts with the edge of the cardstock and attaching both hearts back to back.
When you open the white card flap it reveals the next layer which is actually the Misty Moonlight card front pictured in the image below.
To create the three heart panel on the Misty Moonlight card front, punch three scalloped hearts from Misty Moonlight cardstock.
Stamp the smallest heart from the Heartfelt Bundle in Misty Moonlight ink on Basic White cardstock and punch out three hearts using the smooth heart punch. Attach these to the scallop hearts.
Layer the three hearts in a triangle pattern on the front of the Misty Moonlight card base. Stamp the arrow at the bottom in Misty Moonlight ink.
Open this flap to reveal the inside of the card pictured below.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn StampsThere’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
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