Sympathetic Sunflowers 🌻

Today I am creating for a Blue with Sympathy themed card swap with Canadian Cardmakers group on Facebook. Swapping is a great way to see other products you might now have and how a creator uses them! 

I wanted a chance to get my Sunflower 3D embossing folder inky and a sympathy card seemed perfect because sunflowers bring a smile to my face when I am feeling sad! Just love the deep embossed effect you get with the 3D Folders especially if you spritz your paper with a wee bit of water before hand! This is a nice large folder so I’m definitely going to put it to use on future scrapbook layouts as well! 

I used the drag the ink pad effect for the colouring initially using Pool Party, Lost Lagoon and Balmy Blue ink pads Stampin’ Up!. However felt my Sponge daubers would offer the finer control opportunity to go in add colour to some of the deeper areas not caught during the dragging process.

I pared it with the Heartfelt Prayers sentiment from the Peace On Earth stamp set. This stamp set has awesome sentiments and well in my humble opinion and based on my growing collection you just can’t have too many sentiment options! 

I added the little dove die from the coordinating Peaceful Garden die set and added some ink sponging to the dove to give it some dimension. Finished it off with a few pearls for that bling effect. 

Then I wanted to use my second embossed image for a landscape view which turned out adorable as well. Instead of adding the second glitter label frame I placed some retired glitter ribbon behind the sentiment.

Finished both cards off by adding a dove to my envelope because I just can’t let an envelope go out into the world naked! Have to dress it up too! 

Do you dress up your envelopes too? 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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