Welcome to Social Stamping – the first of the monthly hops focused on social greetings as themes. If you joined us for any of the 15 weekly Social Stamping hops, you’ll be familiar with the blog hop style, linked to each other and also a main blog host post. Click here to see a full list of designers participating today.
Today’s theme is ‘sympathy’. Sympathy cards can be very hard to make. The elements of the card – the colour choices, the theme, the stamps, the layout – it seems to carry more weight when the job of the card is to express to someone how much we care. I wanted to make a card that covered feeling sad and the new Boho Indigo stamp has has the perfect sentiment – “sorry you’re feeling blue”.
I really love the Boho Indigo Product Medley with it’s serene blue tones and beautiful imagery in the stamp & die set.
Flowers are a great way to express condolences and a good theme for sympathy cards. The stamps and dies in this project set make it easy to create visually stunning arrangements in no time at all. I’ve used a combination of the vase (Smoky Slate), flowers (Misty Moonlight) and leaves (Seaside Spray).
I came across this style of card on Debbie Henderson’s blog recently. She called it an interlocking card – and I just love it!!!
The finished card is the same size as a standard Australian card (A6) and fits in a normal C6 envelope. To create the gap needed for the slider, you cut the card front down by 1/8″ to allow for the slider mechanism to sit snugly down the gap. The card base is 8-1/8″ x 4-1/8, scored at 2″ from each end.
The slider is made using two labels or tags held together with Foam Adhesive Strip. I used two of the same size die from the Tasteful Labels set, cut from Misty Moonlight cardstock and held together using a piece of Foam Adhesive Strip.
It’s so simple but so clever – my favourite kind of card! I can see this being my new favourite as it will fit any style or theme of card.
I’ve added the flowers & vase to the slider and also a piece of ribbon to act as a pull tab.
Thanks for hopping with us today. Next blog to visit is by Julia Quinn – who makes gorgeous projects in sunny Queensland.
Enjoy your weekend. I hope you don’t have a need for many sympathy cards, but if you do, I hope this hop has provided some helpful inspiration!
A lovely card Kelly. The Boho Indigo medley is perfect for this theme and your gatefold style is gorgeous. Interlocking the card fronts into the design feature is inspired. Must give it a go. thank you for being such an inspiration. xxx
Love this medley Kelly, but more so your gorgeous slider project…so creative and clever!💕
Such a clever design love boho indigo and I’ve been playing with it lots lately – I’m going to have to give this one a go xx
Beautiful paper Kelly, I’m a sucker for anything Blue. I love the slide card idea – will definitely have to try this.
A new one on me Kelly. Also going to have to give it a try. Love the use of your blues to fit the greeting perfectly.
Beautiful card-it’s easy to overlook this bundle and you’ve certainly brought it alive with this card and great design.
What a clever and nifty card closure idea. I need to try this. Gorgeous as usual. x
How clever, Love it, I’ll have to give this a go. thanks so much for the in details and inspiration.
Love the combination of blues and I’m sure this card would brighten anyone’s day who is feeling blue.