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Timeless Tulips Sympathy Card

Timeless Tulips is a beautiful stamp set for sympathy cards. While there are sentiments for other occasions, such as birthday and get well, we need cards for the not so happy times too. Be sure to have some on hand because they’re so difficult to make when you’re mourning. Starting with a white card base, first add a dark layer with the Gorgeous Grape cardstock. Then lighten things up again with a white panel enhanced with a narrow strip of Hand Penned Designer Series Paper. Stamp tulips from Timeless Tulips in Gorgeous Grape and Old Olive ink, and a sentiment…

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The Color of True Love

The Colors of True Love for this Birthday Card are Flirty Flamingo and Granny Apple Green. The Hydrangea Haven stamp set includes the sentiment 'To an incredible woman'.

What is the color of true love? Today’s cards feature the Stampin’ Up! True Love Designer Series Paper (item 154281). This is a black and white paper that’s perfect for designs like the Zany Zebras background prints, and also for coloring with Stampin’ Blends! The Color of True Love Sympathy Card Paper Layers and Stampin’ Blends The Light and Dark Highland Heather blends, along with Light and Dark Old Olive are beautiful for coloring this sympathy card. Choose a 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ piece of Old Olive card stock for the card base. Then add a black layer, 4″ x 5-1/4″…

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Lovely Lattice Thoughts

Petal Pink Lovely Lattice sympathy card with white embossing.

Let the beautiful flowers in the Lovely Lattice stamp set be the center of attention on this sympathy thoughts card! Stamping them in Versamark ink and heat embossing them with white embossing powder is a simple way to allow them to shine. Then, add a little color just on the center of the flowers for a little pop! For this sympathy card, I chose Petal Pink as a soft background, with a Garden Green embossed layer for a bit of contrast. Since I didn’t color the leaves on the stamped Lovely Lattice image, the Layered Leaves embossing folder subtly creates…

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Sending Comforting Hugs

Sending Comforting Hugs and Healing Prayers When you need a sympathy card, emotions often make it difficult to create one. If you make a couple of these lovely floral cards now, you’ll have them on-hand when you need one. The Kindness & Compassion stamp set by Stampin’ Up! is perfect for sending comforting hugs and healing prayers. It also has great sentiments for thanking those who have comforted you during a personal loss. Here are all the supplies and instructions to create this card. SUPPLIES   All supplies listed are available at http://bit.ly/ShopWithCarol – just click the item number to…

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With Sympathy

Lotus Blossom Sympathy Unfortunately, we often have a need to send Sympathy cards. It seems that the older I get, the more often I need them. This one uses the Lotus Blossom stamp again with a simple sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes. Supplies Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe Cardstock (retired) Perfect Plum Cardstock Whisper White Cardstock Sweet Sorbet DSP scrap (retired) Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe ink (retired) Old Olive Ink – dark stem color Pear Pizzazz Ink – light stem color Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set – sentiment Lotus Blossom stamp set (retired) Tools: Balloon Framelits Dies – for the bow Adhesives: Stampin ‘Dimensionals Snail Permanent…

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