Sympathy Card- No Time to Stamp Challenge #128

Sadly, I had to make a sympathy card today for a friend whose close Aunt passed away last week from cancer. I was reading the challenges and saw that No Time to Stamp had one for sympathy cards (which are always difficult to create). I like using this memories verse from Cloud 9 Stamps on my sympathy cards as I feel it really expresses how you might remember someone's life.

The "scallop oval edging and flowers" is an unmounted stamp from Pez-a-Doodle Stamps that I embossed with gold EP on K&Co paper. Here's the link: http://www.pezadoodle.com/buscfr.html

I used a Spellbinders Oval Nestie to cut out the center to make a window card. The edge of the oval is embossed, but hard to see in the pic. The butterfly is cut with a Spellbinders die from embossed vellum. Sheer ribbon, primas, and pearls for dimension. I also embossed a smaller butterfly and group of flowers on the inside of card.

Sharon
Feb.28/10
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Challenges:

Clearly I Stamp Challenge #8 (CIC8)Hip to be Square - Any size of square card. Mine is 5-1/4" square
http://clearlyistamp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/02/clearly-inspired-challenge-8-cic8-its-hip-to-be-square.html

Character Cafe Feature Friday #14 - Monochromatic
http://charactercafe.blogspot.com/2010/02/feature-friday-14.html

Saturday Spotlight Challenge #20 - CAS, or clean paper and edges
http://saturdayspotlight.blogspot.com/2010/02/sshp20-clean-it-up-challenge.html