May You Find Comfort

A sympathy card for a dear friend who lost her father last week - so terribly sad.  She lost her mom around the same time last year.  I can't image how she is feeling.  I will be getting this out to her this week.

To create this card, I pulled my inspiration from this week's challenge at CardPatterns - Sketch 147:

I turned the sketch 90 degrees to the right.  The base of the card is Gina K's Pure Luxury card stock in Kraft.  The designer paper I used is from the My Mind's Eye - So Sophie - Graceful 6x6 paper pad.  The sentiment is from Inkadinkado - Kathy Davis, which I stamped and then cut out the shape by hand.  I added a mat of designer paper under the sentiment that I cut out and embossed with Nestabilities Labels Eight.  For the bottom border, I used a piece of frayed canvas and then added some Prima flowers and leaves.  The centers are small yellow pearls.  I added some smaller flowers to the sentiment as well.  All sponging was done using Memento Close to Cocoa ink.  Two small vintage buttons from Grandmom's stash were added to the corners to complete the card.

I hope you have a great start to your week!

best!
dee marie

home sweet home

Hello to all my friends! I have missed you so much over the past month and a half! I am so excited to finally sit down and share some news with all of you! Shaun and I are now home owners :) We moved in mid April and we are finally settled (and I finally unpacked all my stamp supplies!) I can't wait to get back into the swing of things - it's going to take me forever to go back through all of your blog posts and catch up! I can't wait to be inspired by all of you!

Tonight I am sharing with you a picture of our new home. We are so proud and we can't wait to have all of our friends and family over to check it out :) I will be sure to throw in a snapshot or two from time to time!

I am also sharing with you the change of address cards that I have sent out. This was my first project after unpacking all of my supplies. Since I needed 40 of these (yes, I know, 40!) I kept them very simple. They are single panel cards, A2 size, cut from Gina K's Pure Luxury in Soft Sand. I stamped each front with my SU! Canvas background stamp using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I like how the canvas stamp gives the effect of a screen door. I then colored the new home stamp from Inkadinkado using Memento markers in Rich Cocoa and Cottage Ivy, stamped on white, and punched out using the pink Marvy oval punch. SU! card stock in YoYo Yellow was used for the scalloped oval that was layered under and paper pierced. I finished by using corners punched out from various scraps of Basic Grey Origins designer paper. I used the computer to print our new information on the back.

I hope you all have a great night! I am off to create something - I can't let the free time I have tonight get away from me!