Fresh Fig Heartfelt Sympathy Card using Stampin Up products

Hey Everyone,

I absolutely love crafting and making cards for every occasion, but I always have a heavy heart when I get asked to make a sympathy card. A friend of mine asked me to make them a card to give to someone and I'm pleased with the results of the card, although it be a sad one.

Fresh Fig and gold seem to be a great combination. I love the simplicity of this card, using bold colours, heat embossing and ribbon help create a luxury feeling card.

I used heat embossing to create the shiny sentiment, and the gold ribbon shines the same, so when I punched out a circle for the centre of the flower from our gold foil sheets - it didn't look right as it didn't match and I struggled to figure out how to make it compliment the rest of the gold! Only one solution and it was to heat emboss.

Taking the versamark ink pad and 'smush' it onto a scrap of whisper white, sprinkle with embossing powder and heat. You will be left with a patch of heat embossed gold. Take the desired punch and create the shapes. I used the small circle from the cookie cutter punch as it was the perfect size for this flower, but this technique will work with any shape.

Product List

Heartfelt Sympathy Photopolymer Stamp Set

[138764]

Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock

[144248]

Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack

[144131]

Gold 1/8" Ribbon

[134583]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Blossom Builder Punch

[141469]

Cookie Cutter Builder Punch

[140396]

Heat Tool - Uk Plug

[129054]

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Glue Dots

[103683]

SNAIL Permanent Adhesive

[104332]

Thanks for taking a look at today's project.

I hope to see you all soon

Vickie
  xx