Sentiments

 Hi!  I have been playing with two new quote stamps from Darkroom Door. I love quote stamps and both of these are beautiful! 

This first one Light Remains is so lovely and will be perfect for a sympathy card.  Unfortunately we have lost some of our friends and family this year and this is a lovely reminder of them.  I am thinking how lovely this would be on a scrapbook page.

For the second card I just used a few soft wildflowers in the background.  The quote as the focal point.  

Next is the stamp Wild as the Sea and I wanted to pair this with some alcohol inks splattered like the bubbles in the froth.

I mixed in the images from the Darkroom Door rubber stamp set called Sailing Away along with a fishing net stamp. 

This is such a pretty sentiment and works well with the sea inspired images! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Gently Lovingly...

Welcome back.  Today I am sharing a series of sympathy cards. They are all based on the same idea and will help me build up a small supply of these type of cards. I am always thankful when I don't have a need for sympathy cards.  Unfortunately a friend of mine has lost someone in her family and I wanted to send her a little note to show we were thinking of her and her family.

 I started with two of my favorite stamps that I have had for awhile.  The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps and I think a beautiful way to send caring thoughts. 

 The Pussy Willows stamp is a very old one from Serendipity Stamps.  I wanted to stamp the pussy willows slightly overlapping the sentiment.  I used micro-glaze on the image and sentiment before I added color to see if I could keep my buds white.  I sprayed the mist on my craft mat and laid my stamped image and sentiment in the ink.  I then sprinkled in white paint and a few flicks of the spray over the surface.  I then came back in and added highlights with my gel pen.

 For this card I stamped and added the glaze on the buds. I then just sprayed directly in the middle of the pussy willows with my distress stain spray. I dabbed off the excess with paper towels.  I then flicked white paint and blue spray over the surface.

For my final version, I followed the same process as above but sprayed at an angle which covered more of the surface with a softer blue background. I highlighted again with the white gel pen to pop the areas I wanted highlighted.

I am added this to the CAS Mix Up Card Challenge of Stamping & Smooshing.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Sympathy

I hate to have a reason to create Sympathy cards,  but I needed a few for later this week.  These cards are inspired by Birgit.  I love her art and can recognize her art because of her beautiful style.  I have been wanting to mask off a section and sponge in some color in the corner and then overlay the image and sentiment. For sympathy cards I like to keep it clean and focus on the words.

 The first features: Ranger Archival Ink - Black, Memento Plum Dye Ink, Darkroom Door - Garden Greetings, Darkroom Door Quote Stamp - Memory

The next two are the same concept with different stamps:

 Hero Arts - Bamboo, The Stamp Barn CHSH 304 M,  Memento Plum Dye Ink, Ranger Archival Ink - Black

 I swapped the bamboo stamped image from Memento Plum Dye ink to Ranger Archival Ink - Watering Can. This was my first version of this card and I decided the gray was too strong and switched to plum.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Suzz

Elegant Weeds

Can't get enough of the Elegant Weeds Stamp from Hero Arts. Love stamping them and coloring them in with the various shades of watercolor.

I unfortunately had to create a few cards for someone who had loss a loved one. I wasn't sure about the twine on a sympathy card but wanted to keep it fairly simple.

Hope your day is fabulous!

Suzz