Sympathy in Blue

Hello everyone.  It's Wednesday again so that means another Perfect Sentiments Challenge.   This week's challenge was to create a card with the sentiment of sympathy; and the twist was to use this photo as inspiration.

Whoa!  That didn't come out too big, but I guess you can get the idea.  I used the color scheme as my inspiration and went looking for a layout that I liked.  I came across this card in Card Ideas for Paper Crafters by Nicky Hsu.  Here is a link to her blog showcasing her card.  http://craftcoffeecat-nicky.blogspot.com/2011/08/publish-card-ideas-for-paper-crafters.html  My card doesn't really look anything like hers, but it did inspire me and turned into this card.

Not much stamping and no Copics on this one, but I love the way it turned out.  The card base is just white.  I used another sheet of paper from my Prima Sparkling Spring paper pad layered on top of the base.  Then I just added things to it.  The blue crushed velvet ribbon is from my stash.  The Recollections flower is layered on a Rolled Daisy die from My Favorite Things cut out of SU Bashful Blue.  The pearls and glitter bling are from Recollections.  The sentiment is from Papertry Ink's Sympathy set stamped on white and matted on another piece of Bashful Blue.  I shaped the ends by hand.

I hope this will give you some inspiration and an incentive to come join us this week and show us what you can do.  I know that I, for one, don't usually have a sympathy card around when I need one, so this is a good time to add at least one to your stash.

And, of course, we have a PRIZE! 

Shelly's Images.com ~ One digital image of your choice.

Check out her store here - http://www.shellysimages.com  Now check out the rest of the Design Team and Guest Designers and get ready to be inspired some more:

Sami 

Sarah 

Jan

Sassy

Abby

Jessica

And the January 2012 Guest Designers

Ashley

Karen

Tabitha

  Thanks so much for stopping by again. I appreciate all your comments and support.