Five Sympathy Cards

Five different versions of the same idea.
This was a lot of fun, thinking of different ways
to use my supplies.

The tree scene is a stamp from a company called
Bear Rubber. I have no idea if they are still in business,
but I sure do like a lot of their stamps.
It was cut out with Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals,
then layered over a slightly larger black oval.
A medium tan ink was used to stamp the "shadow"
image, using the same tree scene stamp.

The phrase was done in PSP X (as usual), cut out with an oval
and layered over a black oval. The above card has a
textured layer in craft colored card stock under the
tree scene and the phrase.

An EK Success Martha Stewart punch was used for
the viney leafy border.

This last card does not have the tree scene. I was
experimenting with the texturing of the craft card stock
and using the viney leafy border on the top and bottom.
It turned out reasonably well.

Under God's Feet

Another card for my pastor. The zebra stripe oval is from the Paper Studio Everyday Craft stack. A wonderful stack for "man" cards or scrapbook pages. The oval and the plain black larger oval were both cut with Spellbinders Nesting ovals.





The tiger stamp is from Sutter Enterprises Stamps. This company has a wonderful collection of western and wildlife stamps. The image was stamped with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink. This ink was also used to sponge around the edges of the card.




The phrase was computer generated in PSP X. It was cut with a Spellbinders Label die and mounted on an oval, again by Spellbinders. The final embellishment is three black "jewels" on the right hand side of the phrase.

I will answer you

The texture is an embossing folder. I used the same one
for the white and the purple.
The scripture has been constructed in PSP X.
It was cut out with a Spellbinders oval die, mounted on a
Spellbinders Fancy Tag and those two layers
were then attached to Spellbinders oval cuts as well.

Praise The Lord!

This is a simple card that looks complex.
There are a lot of steps to making it, but
none of them are complicated.

The black and white that is the center of the
square and the layer under the phrase
have been created with spray webbing.

All of the layers have been 3-D'ed
with paper egg cartons.
All of the foam 3-D materials would have
been too much for the look that I wanted.
I wanted very distinct layers, but
not a lot of height off the card base.
So cutting up the flat parts of a
paper egg carton are the best solution.
It also costs me nothing. LOL!

All of the dies used were Spellbinders.
A Cuttlebug embossing folder
was used for the first white layer
on the card base.