Sympathy card

Hi everyone,

Our summer weeks inspiration is over at the Copic Marker Norway challenge blog, and we are back to our regular schedule. Our first challenge theme is " Milestones in life". We may often think of weddings, baptismn or other big and happy events like birthdays a.s.o, but since my family unfortunately had the loss of an uncle of mine recently I decided to make a condolence card. 

I went with a mini slimline card, and this is a card size I love to do. These beautiful flowers are a digital stamp from Alex Syberia called Fabulous floral slimline card panel. I decided to print out the stamp in its original slimline size, but only use part of the image fussy cutting out two of the flowers.

I colored up this image with my Copics using BG 78-75-72-70 and going blending tip to tip between the gap of BG72 to BG 70 as the last color is so much lighter.

I used a light grey wooden pattern paper under the flowers that I popped up on dimension tape to add some interest to my card. I stamped the word condolences on vellum paper and added some clear crystal bling to my card. For the flower centers I decided to go with Black diamond Stickles from Ranger to add some elegance and also to pick up the black from my card stock panel.

On the inside I stamped a very sweet norwegian message translating ruffely into " Life will never be the same after a drear smil fades away"

I`m really happy with how this card came together and I wish the pictures would make this card justice.

I`m entering this card to:

 Simon Says: Anything Goes, featuring Hero Arts! | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Thank you so much for stopping by, 

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Theatre inspired confirmation card

 Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing a confirmation card I made for a son of some friends confirmation last weekend. I`m so happy with how this card turned out.

I made the card into a double gate fold card, getting the inspiration from the theatre curtains opening up to begin the show. This young man loves the theatre and is also a talented actor at the local youth theatre, so that`s where I got the inspiration for the theme of the card.  

For the card front, I used an old paper from KaisercraftsOn Stage collection. The striped blue paper is a digital pattern paper from Polkadoodle Gnome music bundle. The pattern paper with blue stars is from Papirdesign. The edge star die from Tim Holtz are cut out in black glitter paper and I used the same die and just cut the stars into smaller pieces to decorate inside my card making sure to place them as to help guide the eyes across the card.

This sentiment is from Papirdesign and it says: "Some people make the world special just by being in it".

The pictures are printed to the desired size at home and the main one is placed in an Insta frame that I stamped and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The sentiment says: "You are amazing".

On the backside of the card, there is a nice space to write a personal note.

I love how this card turned out, and thank you for letting me post this card here on my blog with pictures in it. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,

-Christine💮