Monday 25 January 2016

CC#47 - With Sympathy


Well, I'm sorry to say that I need one of these this week, for a family at our church. I looked at various challenges over the weekend to inspire me for this card and landed on The Card Concept's Floral Elegance photo:



I was inspired by the white-on-white layered leaves and the dark branches. I took a very clean approach, using Simon's Clustered Leaves, Clearly Besotted 'sympathy', Papertrey 'with' and an MFT Pierced Square die.

I cut the leaves out of a larger piece of white cardstock before cutting it again with the square die. This allowed me to lay the leaves back in and keep that one little one poking out the side.

23 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards Ardyth, your to laid trick is very creative.

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  2. Love the inlaid leaf ,sympathy cards are the hardest to do not just to make but give as well x

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  3. Love the inlaid leaf ,sympathy cards are the hardest to do not just to make but give as well x

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  4. A selfmade card (and such a beautie) will give solace.

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  5. I'm sorry for your loss Ardyth! Amazing card, perfect!

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  6. Beautiful! Keeping it simple for a Sympathy card is a great thing...

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  7. I'm sorry you neded it but it's a very soft and understated card. Love the inlaid leaves.

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  8. Beautiful, Ardyth ... a perfect sympathy card! Hugs & bisous, Anita :)

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  9. Such a beautiful sympathy card, Ardyth!!! Love how you've done the leaves with the one going off the edge!!!
    Have a wonderful day!!!

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  10. These are hard cards to make. This is beautiful and elegant x

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  11. Love that inlaid leaf, beautiful sympathy card Ardyth. I really like the design,too. Thanks for joining us at The Card Concept!

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  12. What a perfect touch, to have that extra leaf adding something extra to this clean design.

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  13. Elegant simplicity! Love the wee little leaf that has escaped the confines of the stitched square :)

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  14. Gorgeous!!! Your creations always amaze me!
    Thanks for sharing this beauty with us here at The Card Concept!

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  15. Love what you did with the dies!
    Good to see you at The Card Concept!
    Lilian
    The Leaf Studio

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  16. I really like the sending hugs card. The colors are great and the placement of the flower and leaves is just right. I was especially glad to see the PTI dies used here since I have those but haven't used them in awhile. this gives me new ideas for those.
    Mary

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  17. Love the wonderful CAS designs! Thanks for joining the Card Concept challenge!

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  18. Soft and wonderful sympathy card and I love the leaf off the edge.

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  19. lovely card Ardyth and congrats on your win over at Card Concept!

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