Blessed Are Those Who Mourn - Daydream Designs

It's always unfortunate when a Sympathy Card is needed.  But, nonetheless, it is part of life.  When the situation at hand calls for one, I like to try to make something special that will be a blessing and a comfort to its recipient(s).  In this case, I used the beautiful sentiments from the God's Comfort Sentiments Collection available at Daydream Designs.  These beautiful sentiments are perfect for making sympathy cards, and there are many different sentiments in the set for just $3.95.  Here is an image of the set you can purchase.  Just click the above link to go to the store.

 

Front of card:

 

Inside of card:

 

I was inspired to make this card by the challenge this week at Nichole Heady/Papertrey Ink's Challenge Blog where they have a great tutorial showing how to decorate the inside of your card.  I used stamps on the background, then printed my Daydream Designs sentiment on vellum to cover the butterflies.  Next, I used a Papertrey Ink hearts border die to cut a strip of hearts that I sewed to the top of the sentiment.  Then, on the outside/front of the card, I used some Basic Grey Lemonade patterned papers, again printed the sentiment on vellum, sewing all the pieces together.  Next I cut a heart from canvas using the Papertrey Ink heart die-cut (the large one in a set of 3), and put some of the left-overs from the other rows of PTI heart die-cut border on the canvas heart and inked them all with Ranger ink.  On the bottom left, I adhered a Prima leave with some flowers as an accent.

 

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/make-it-monday-86-participants.html%20 - Papertrey Ink - Make it Monday Challenge #86 - The Inside Edition

http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/2012/10/challenge-75-and-winners-of-74.html - Lexi's Creations Challenge Blog - Challenge #75 - Pink for Breast Cancer

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to see the post below for more Daydream Designs Hope for a Cure inspiration and some freebies along the way.

 

Blessings,

Karen