Mom Project - Card #19

Here is a sympathy card with the sentiment: "When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure." I get tired of just saying with my deepest sympathy or variations of that - this seems more uplifting.

For the card, the heart border punch is Martha Stewart; and I used Stampin' Up!'s half round punch to make the "holders" for the sentiment piece. I like this punch and the way it can look.

Tomorrow is the final card....

Mom Project - Card #16

This sympathy card takes advantage of a Creative Memories punch - the paisley punch, which I uncovered the other day. I like this punch and my mom loves paisley so I combined the punch with the paisley embossing folder I have from Sizzix.

Once again the picture is not great (this was a scan on my printer rather than a photo using my camera setup) but the card is actually a blue "Starry Night" paper --- I love this cardstock, it is midnight blue with specks of white scattered about reminding me of a star-filled night. I use it often and am running out =(

The sentiment - "In this time of sorrow, know that I am thinking about you...and that I care" might have been better if I had made it an outside/inside type ---- with the last part written on the inside; however, I have an aversion to inside sentiments. I need to get over that.

Mom Project - Card #1

Ok, here I go - I will show you the 22 cards I gave my mom for this project (yes, the card holder only holds 17 cards, but I gave her a few "extras").

In doing the project, I decided to split up the cards like this:

4 Thank you
3 Birthday
3 Note cards
3 Sympathy
3 Get Well
1 Congratulations - I tried to make it useful for a wedding or a birth


This is a sympathy card made with paper I knew my mom would love:

Sympathy Cross Card

A friend of mine from one of the places where I volunteer lost her husband rather suddenly from cancer and so I came up with a sympathy card at the last minute. I used my Cricut Expression and adapted an SVG cross that I had stored on my computer to the circumstances.

Once again, I know I got the idea for the original cross from someone else's website yet I didn't record where (I know how horrible that it of me), and I had to re-design it for my card --- it wasn't fitting on my card correctly and had once set of "humps" missing, but it still is NOT my design. I do appreciate immensely all the people who share their files on the web and feel horrible that up until now I haven't kept better records of where I have gotten my files. :(

Here is the card I made using a yellow pearlescent base and pearlescent white for the layered crosses. I used pop-dots between the layers of each size cross. It went card base (yellow), then a pearlescent large cross, pop-dots, a pearlescent large cross, pop-dots, and a small pearlescent cross. Making 3 layers of paper above the cardstock and 2 sets of pop-dots, yes it was thick --- but I like it this way. You could achieve a nice look using just one layer of a large cross and a small cross also, forgoing the pop-dots. I know some people (my sister included) do not like the dimensional look of many current cards. My card looked like this:

It is VERY simple in the picture. At first, I did not want a lot of frills, but after I made it I realized that it needed a sympathy verse and some peel-offs. So I did dress it up, I just didn't get a picture taken before it was sent :(

I am sharing a ZIP archive that contains the jpg image of the card, the SVG file, and the scut2 file for a 5x7 card.

Sympathy Cross Zip File

If you have seen the original cross file on the web somewhere and can send me the link - or are the original creator - please contact me and I will give you the credit that is definitely yours!