Fab Friday Sketch Challenge: Blooming with Kindness

 Happy day friends, we've reached another Friday, yeah!  We've got another busy weekend coming up, I think I need to resolve myself to the fact that with all of our activities the days of having nice relaxing weekends are a thing of the past.  When I saw this weeks Fab Friday sketch challenge I knew I wanted to play along since it's such a great layout and would be perfect for another sympathy card that I'm working on (I'm planning on mailing by package of sympathy cards to my mom shortly so I'm hoping this batch will tied them over for awhile, unfortunately my mom and her friends have had to use a lot of sympathy cards lately, which is sad, at least they can have something pretty to send their greetings in).  Today's card starts with a Pool Party card base and then has a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock that I stamped the En Francis background stamp in Soft Suede.  Then I distressed it a little by tearing one of the edges and sponging around all the edges with Crumb Cake Ink. 

Next I added a piece Pool Party Core'dinations cardstock that was embossed with the Big Shot and the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder before being sanded to bring out the embossed texture.  I tore one of the corners of this piece as well to mimic the corner tear on the Crumb Cake piece.

For the main stamped image I used the Blooming with Kindness stamp and inked the flower with my Pool Party and Island Indigo markers using the thumping technique before punching it out with the 2 1/2" circle punch.  This piece was matted with a piece of Island Indigo cardstock that was cut with the Big Shot and the Window Collection Framelits.  The greeting is from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and is stamped in Soft Suede ink before being punch with the Modern Label Punch and then being sponged with Crumb Cake ink.

I really like how soft and pretty this card turned out and I love being able to mix so many different stamps and elements together.  I think they work really well.

I hope you enjoy, have a great weekend and happy stamping!

Diana

Create with Connie and Mary: Thoughts and Prayers

Welcome back friends and I hope all is well.  One thing about creating cards is that I make more cards than I can use, thankfully my mom and her friends are very supportive and frequently purchase cards for their occasions.  Unfortunately they've been needing a lot of sympathy cards and I'm having a hard time keeping up with what they need so I decided to make a sympathy card for this weeks Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge.  The stamp set Thoughts and Prayers is perfect for this challenge.  The cardbase is Crumb Cake and I added a layer of Soft Suede that I embossed with the Fancy Fan embossing folder.  Next I added two strips of DSP from the Poetry Prints DSP stack and a piece of Gumball Green 3/8" stitched satin ribbon as well. 

The main stamped image is stamped on Very Vanilla Cardstock and is stamped with Soft Suede ink and then sponged around the edge with Crumb Cake ink.  This piece was then matted on a layer of Midnight Muse cardstock.  The greeting is from the same stamp set and was cut out with the Apothecary Accents framelits and then sponged with Gumball Green ink.  The greeting was attached to the card with dimensionals so it pops.

 

I love how soft and elegant this card turned out, perfect.  I love this sketch and can't wait to use it again.  There's still time to play along with this weeks challenge, so give it a try.

 

Happy stamping!

 

Diana