Thinking of You- Sympathy

Since I am really tired today, I'll be quick about this post. This card was a request from a co-worker who was complaining that there was "no good sympathy cards at Wal-mart. None that left any room for (him) to write anything that he wanted to say, and all had cheesy or really long sayings." Basically his friend's mother just died and he wanted something basically to just be a little "thinking of you" type card. I overheard his rant and popped in, "Hey, you know I make personalized cards, I can make you one!" I then directed him to my blogo, and he was sold on the idea. So here is what I came up with.  Enjoy.

(here's the front of the card. I used a new Nestibilities I got from my mom for Xmas)

 

 

(He wanted the inside blank so he could write his own message, so I dressed it up at the top, but left the bottom blank)

 Sympathy cards are always tough for me, since I don't want them to be too frilly, bright, or modern (which to have none of those is reallllllyyyyy tough for me), so this is what I did. I tried to keep it elegant and soothing. Not my absolute masterpiece of cards, but it works.
Night all. (I just finished up my Friday Night Card club cards, so later on I'll upload it to show ya'll.) laters.
-M

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A shoulder to cry on

So I was requested of a co-worker, like I have been a lot recently, to create a card to give to his friend who is need. I had many similar sentiments, however none did the trick totally. My co-worker wrote up basically what he wanted to say, and I thought, "Hey, why don't I just make a digital stamp version of this to use." I whipped it up in a jiffy in Photoshop, printed it on cardstock, then cut it out with my very first Nesti I got a few months ago- with a discount coupon for Micheal's. He also gave me her name, which I decided to make the main focus for the front of the card, while the sentiment was for inside.
Here it is.

 (I decided to go for the "pretty in pink" look)

 (These chipboard letters actually had little purple flowers on them, but they didn't match, so I covered them with other flowers of the right match)

(the inside sentiment)

I also created another baby shower card, this one for a co-worker's daughter who is also having a baby boy. He liked what I did with the baby shower card I made for our one co-worker, and wanted a similar card. Well, 1) I didn't have the same chipboard letters left, 2) I didn't have the same ribbon or paper left either 3) I  realized after I stamped the image and already adhered the back to the main image paper, that damn, there seems to be a decent amount of space at the top, compared to the original card I made, so I added another sentiment. "Sweet" to the top. Here it is, a very similar resemblance to that of my previous baby shower card, but slightly different. Yay for Stickles making non-sparkle chipboard letters Sparkle! Enjoy.

(oh baby! hehe)

Have a great day/night all!
-M

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Out fishing...

Evening all. This little card I made for one of my best friends, in light of recent events with her father. She found out recently that there is a grave possibility that he has cancer. He's been in and out of the hospital in surgery/testings, etc. to get rid of "all the bad stuff." In this stressful time for her, I thought I'd make her this card. Her father is a sport fisherman, and the whole family (her husband included) like to join in on the fishing fun and come out to many tournaments for fishing. This coming weekend she hopes to take her dad out on a vacation to upstate New York (to fish of course!), unless the Friday tests tell them he can't. So this card is just that type of theme-fishing.

(I was kinda sad I didn't have 3-4 brads in that colro of the same size, but oh well- it doesn't look too shabby with 2 different sizes, does it?)

I recently acquired this stamp set from my mom when she was cleaning out her craft room, and I immediately grabbed it for this reason. The hat and can of worms are both very large stamps so I decided to do a mask to hide part of the hat behind it (I had seen this done on a few people's blogs recently, so I decided to try it). Then later I decided I was going to cut out the images and pop them up, so the masking wasn't really necessary in the end, but at least I tried it!

(let me tell you, those worms were a pain to cut out!)

Since these were so large of stamps, they kinda took up most of the front of the card, so there isn't much to it, so that is why I added some stuff to the inside. (also because I thought it looked nice without the saying on the front).

(sorry this particular shot isn't the best, my camera's batteries decided to die right after I got only 1 shot of the inside- and I didn't have any extra batteries around).

So that was the card (inside and out). I kinda wished the little worm on the inside didn't have a "I'm going to be sick/throw up" face, but, oh well, it serves its purpose.
Anyways, hope everyone is having a great week so far, and I hope to post more cards later in the week. Hugs all!
-M

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