Use Your Background Stamps | Sympathy Card Ideas | Carnations and Pray On It

 

Happy Saturday y'all.  I love using background stamps for cards.  But I hate making sympathy cards.  Today, two stamps from Technique Junkies whispered in my ear - the Carnations background stamp and the Pray On It stamp - and I used both of them to make 2 sympathy cards.   

I even have a video showing how I made these cards and also showing other cards I made using the Carnations background.  

Let me explain how I made them.  Both cards are made almost the same.  The only difference is that I glued flowers on the horizontal card.

• Using black cardstock, I made two A2-sized card bases.  One vertical and the other horizontal.  
• I die-cut two pieces of white cardstock using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die and adhered one inside each card to the message.
• Using Archival Jet Black ink by Ranger, I stamped Carnations twice - once on a piece of textured pink cardstock and again on a piece of yellow cardstock.  
• Then I die-cut each of them using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die.
• I cut two pieces of black fun foam, a little smaller than the die-cut Carnations background, and adhered one to each of the stamped images.  Then I adhered one ot each card front. 
• For the sentiments - I stamped Pray On It on a piece of white cardstock - twice.  I trimmed them down and layered them on a piece of black cardstock.  
• Then I die-cut each of them using the 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die to get the stitched sides.  Make sure to align your die either vertically or horizontally depending on which card you are making.  
• I adhered a piece of black fun foam to the back of each sentiment and then to the card front.  
• Lastly, I adhered a small heart sticker I had in my stash to the sentiment and I colored in the letters using a yellow or pink marker.

For the horizontal card, I adhered the sentiment so there was space on the right side.  Then I used a hot glue gun to adhere some paper flowers and a heart hat pin.

I'd love to know what you think of these cards and which one is your fav?  If you want to pick up anything on the Technique Junkies website (www.techniquejunkies.com) - you can save 10% by using my code at checkout - TJ10Michael.  

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and, until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael