Deepest Sympathy

Kara from KandRDesigns is hosting a challenge to celebrate her 100th week of pinning to her Friday Inspiration File.  The challenge is to create something based on a project in that file.  There are lots of inspirational projects to choose from, however I chose to CASE this card by Deanna Jean from week 72.

Love the simplicity and crisp look of this card.  Deanna's original was the perfect sympathy card.  Check out Kara's file for some really great inspiration pieces!

CASE'ing Keva!

Keva is celebrating her 1 year blog anniversary!  Congratulations Keva! :) In honor of her anniversary she is giving away a $25 gift certificate to PTI or Verve.  In order to have a chance to win, she is having a fun challenge.  All you have to do is choose one of her cards or projects to CASE.

Here is the card that I CASED...

I needed to make a sympathy card and so I thought the simplicity of her card would work perfectly for me.  Here is my CASE of Keva's design...

I tried to stick to her simple clean design as this is a sympathy card.  

There is so much inspiration on her blog, please stop by and check it out!  

Sympathy Card

Sympathy cards are usually the hardest cards for me to make.  I usually don't keep any on hand and feel pressured whenever I need to make one...creativity just doesn't flow after I receive bad news.  

I try to use very little black or dark colors on these type of cards.  I also try not to make them too vibrant or too dreary.  This is a card I made for my dear friend Sandra who recently lost her grandmother.   

Embossed the sentiment and used Ranger's Enamel Accents in white to enhance the white dots that were already printed on the patterned paper.

Used black pop dots to adhere the patterned paper to the card base.