Sympathy Card

Happy Friday!

Tonight I have a card to share with you that I made for the challenge over at

Bitten By The Bug 2: Sympathy Card Challenge

Sympathy cards are so hard to make. I have none in my stash so even though this was a tough challenge, at least I now have one just in case. As pretty as this card is, I really hope it just kinda collects dust and never has to be used. To create my card, I cut out my flower from the Spring Cottage Cricut cartridge and placed it inside a frame that I cut out from the Elegant Edges cartridge. My flower was cut out in all white and then I just inked the leaves and stem with green ink, making it lighter and darker in certain areas to give a bit more dimension. I also added a bit of sparkle to my flower by added some shine from my Wink Of Stella Clear glitter brush pen. On my pink layer, I heat embossed the sentiment as well as the edges with silver embossing powder. 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today and taking a look at my latest creation.

I really appreciate it!

I hope you have a great crafty day!

Supply List:

Cardstock: Neenah Solar White

Patterned Paper: In Bloom (MME)

Stamp: In Line Sentiments (Scrappy Moms Stamps)

Inks: VersaMark, Peeled Paint (Ranger)

Cricut Cartridge: Elegant Edges & Spring Cottage

Misc.: Silver Embossing Powder (SU!), Foam Adhesive

Teacher Gift's Blog Hop!

Happy Saturday!

I'm so glad you here!

Are you guys ready to hop and get some great

inspiration for those end of the year teacher gifts?

You should have arrived here from the very talented Sarabeth of Chronicles of Sarita.

If you just happened to stumble across the hop today on my blog and would like to start at the beginning, just hop on over and see Joy at Joy's Life.

For my project, I decided to use the Spring Cottage Cricut Cartridge and make a basket filled with strawberries. Each strawberry is filled with some Hersey Hugs. I love summertime and being able to get fresh strawberries. I will take some strawberries over apples any day! haha!

Here is a view from the top:

Cute huh?

 For my sentiment, I used one of the new stamp sets from Joy's Life titled, Sweet Popsicle Puns.

For my project, I used the Spring Cottage Cricut Cartridge and cut my basket out at 8.5". I inked my basket before I assembled it. After my basket was assembled, I used my Doily Lace border punch to create a little decorative border around the top of the basket with some white card stock and then attached that to the basket using some atg adhesive. I then cut out 6 strawberries, all cut out at 3.25". I filled each strawberry with some Hersey Hugs candies and then tied my leaf onto the strawberry using some Trendy Twine. I then added some bows to the sides of the handles. I stamped my sentiment onto some white card stock in the shape of a rectangle and then used my corner punch to give it the rounded edges. The sentiment then got popped onto the front of the basket with some foam adhesive. Voila!

What's a blog hop without a little candy?

I'm going to pick one lucky person to win the super cute

Wild Life Puns stamp set from Joy's Life:

All you have to do for you chance to win is:

1. Be a follower of my blog

&

2. Post a comment on this post.

I will pick a winner using random.org on Saturday, April 28th.

Just make sure you leave a way for me to contact you.

Thanks for joining us on the Teacher Gift's Blog Hop!

Your next stop is the very talented Susie from The Dies Have It.

Here is a list of the blog hop order in case you get lost along the way:

Joy

Julie

Nina

Jennie

Patty

Sarabeth

Stacey <---Your Here

Susie<---Your Next Stop

Laura

Lori

Megan

Ashley

Amy

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great crafty day!

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge: Spring Cottage

Card Stock: Kraft (Recollections), White (Georgia Pacific), Red (Bazzill), Old Olive (SU!)

Stamp: Sweet Popsicle Puns (Joy's Life)

Ink: Real Red (SU!), Tea Dye Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)

Punches: doily Lace (Martha Stewart), Corner Rounder (EK Success)

Ribbon/Twine: Ribbon (SU!), Holly Green Twine (Trendy Twine)

Misc.: Foam Adhesive, Wonder Tape