sympathy cards

The leaf is cut out of felt. Did a stitch for the leaf veins, and a blanket stitch around the leaf. Sewed the fabric square to the card.

This card I used the stencil with texture medium put brads on the corners, and the fiber wrapped around the card edge.

from a pillow to a card

I cut out for the card from the lace pillow top.

I did top0stitching around the area I was going to cut so it wouldn't ravel on my.

Sewed it to the card front , three rows of stitches to really secure it. Then used tacky tape to secure the ribbon around the edges.

Also wove ribbon on the edge of lace border and tied a bow.

IN SYMPATHY

I used the stencil and a texture medium and then inked the raised image.
Tore the edges and inked them.
stamped the sentiment with the same ink.
And added the ribbon on the side of the card.

with sympathy

My two latest sympathy cards. They're my favorite. The lace pieces I attached to the card using brads. Have to find more of the lace pieces so I can make some more like this. The hunt is on. I got these at a tag sale a few years ago in Missouri.

with sympathy

a with sympathy card, hand stamped image in brown ink and the sentiment stamped with sky blue ink.

I put black lines around the image edges with a marker.

Then added the 3 brads.

with sympathy cards

the lighthouse stamp is from Sweet and Sassy stamps the with sympathy is a fiskars stamp I colored in the image with water color pencils. And added some stitching in the water with a shiny thread.

Stitched around the leaf images with green thread. The with sympathy stamp is Fiskars.

Sympathy Cards

The butterfly I outlined with a black marker, and colored it in using markers. the background I painted with acrylics.

The forget-me-nots are colored in with water color pencils. The leaves and stems I used acrylics.