Modern Butterfly Sympathy Card

As we all do from time to time, I had the need to make a sympathy card today. I also purchased some Gina K Designs products recently that needed some love. In addition, I wanted to make something more modern, yet keep it somewhat simplistic. Scroll down for some brief chit chat, creative details and a clickable supply list at the end of this post.

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There are so many different directions to go to, when making a sympathy card. For my friend, who's father passed away, she's not the frilly type. I also didn't want to go over the top or throw a lot of things at this card.

Rather than create a separate card panel to mount on a card, I decided to trim and score my own A2 side fold card with heavyweight cardstock that wouldn't show any ink on the flipside.

I started by doing some partial ink blending with my Gina K Designs oval mask/stencil using Ranger Ink distress oxide ink in Faded Jeans. I chose this as the dominant color, to tie in with the tiny bit of blue on my butterfly. 

Butterflies symbolize transformation and I thought it would be an appropriate symbol for my sympathy card. I stamped the Gina K Designs Blooming Butterfly image in black hybrid ink with my stamp positioner, then colored with OLO Markers. Here are the colors that I used:

OR4.1, 0R4,2, OR1.3,  0R3.4, 0R3.7, B4.3, YG2.5, YG8.5

I also embellished my butterfly with a white gel pen. As you can see in the close-up photo below, I also drew some white lines across the body of the butterfly and smudged them. It wasn't exactly to my liking, so I touched up the white lines with a black fine tip pen. I was much happier with it after the touch up!

I also used the coordinating Blooming Butterfly Die to cut with my Platinum 6 die cut machine.

This card took me approximately 30 minutes to make. Some of that time was figuring out what I wanted to do. I actually had a different plan to begin with but I'm very happy with my end results.

Lastly, I popped up my butterfly and sentiment with adhesive foam strips. By the way, I just love the scripty fonts of the sentiments in this stamp set. They're just so delicate! Also, my sentiment was stamped with Catherine Pooler ink in Macchiato. 

 

I could have easily added some sequins or other sparkly embellishment, but my friend is not the bling-bling type and I chose to keep my design more simplistic.

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Have a fabulous week.....we're expecting snow and we're all just a little excited here in the southern United States, haha!

Terri

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