Pet sympathy card

Unfortunately I've had to make 2 sympathy cards this week, one for a person and one for a pet.  They are sad cards to make aren't they.  I thought I would share the pet one today.  My lovely friend in work had to say goodbye to her beautiful dog Jenny last week and this is the card I made for her and her husband:

I also made my own envelope:

I ink blended the paw/heart stencil with some white ink onto red cardstock and adhered this to a white panel.  I die cut a white heart and a black dog (only using the dog part from the Waffle Flower 'rainbow bridge dog die') and added this to the panel.  I used a beautiful sentiment also from Waffle Flower and stamped it with Versafine onyx black ink.  I found this sweet 'bones' 12x12 paper in my stash (from many moons ago) and thought it would make the perfect envelope.  I also decorated the inside but I keep forgetting to take a photo until after I've already written on it!

It's such a hard thing to say goodbye to a pet, especially when they've been ill and you know the day is coming.  I'm sure my friend took some comfort in my card and even though I couldn't take the pain away she knew I was thinking of her and her husband. 

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:

CCC Digi Creations challenge - no patterned papers

Simon Says Stamp IG challenge - friendship (made for my friend)

I'm really struggling with my back at the moment, I was getting clothes out of the washing machine on Thursday and it suddenly gave way.  Over the years I've suffered with sciatica but this is a different type of pain so I think I must have pulled a muscle or something.  I'm taking paracetamol and using my heat-bag to try and ease the pain but it's really uncomfortable.  Fingers crossed it will get better in a few days.

Have a great week everyone and take care.

Card ingredients:

Honey Bee Stamps - friends furever set of 2 stencils

Waffle Flower - rainbow bridge dog die

Waffle Flower - rainbow bridge stamp

MFT - hearts a plenty dies

Taylored Expressions - sugar cube mini ink pad

Heffy Doodle - cherry on top red card stock

We R Memory Keepers - envelope punch board

Stamp with fun #101–DT card

Good morning everyone.  I hope you all had a really good weekend.  I’ve just been relaxing with the family (and crafting a little too) so the time seems to have whizzed by as usual.  I think we should have a two day working week and a 5 day weekend lol! 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and this week we have a lovely theme for you of “monochrome blue”.  It is such a great colour to work with, although I really don’t use blue enough.  I decided to make a baby boy card as I don’t have any baby cards ‘in stock’ at the moment.  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super cute image from Lili of the Valley called ‘baby blanket’ and I’m ashamed to say this is the first time I’ve inked this little cutie up.  I love gingham papers and especially love them on baby cards, so I had to use my new Wild Rose Studio ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper pad.  The cardstock I’ve used is navy blue but it looks almost black in my pictures for some reason. 

Our sponsor this week is Just Some Lines and the lucky winner will receive a $15.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design team have created wonderful cards for your inspiration, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Aly’s Sunday challenge – anything goes

The crafty pad challenge – use a ribbon

Dream valley challenge – new beginnings

Bee crafty’s challenge – tatty and/or buttons

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Scrap creations challenge – kids

Creative craft world challenge – card for a male (mine is a baby male lol!)

Your next stamp challenge – blue

Simon says stamp challenge – 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (buttons, pearls and ribbon)

Shelly’s images challenge – layers, layer, lots of layers

Alphabet challenge – r is for ribbons

Fairy fun challenge – inspired by a song (mine is ‘baby love’ by the Supremes)

Fussy and fancy challenge – embossing and/or paper piecing (I’ve gone with embossing)

Phindy’s place challenge – oh baby

Tellen’s place challenge – at least 2 embellishments (I’ve used buttons, pearls and ribbon)

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I will be back in a little while with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: LOTV - ‘baby blanket’

Papers: Wild Rose Studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white cardstock, LOTV stamping card

Tools: promarkers, MFT die-namics buttons die, SU scallop border punch, raffia ribbon from stash, personal impressions stamped sentiment, SU oval all punches, pearls from the hobby house