Monochromatic Monday...sympathy card

Good Monday Morning to everyone--hope you had a great weekend.  I had a pretty lazy weekend but got some great crafting done.
Today I want to share a very simple sympathy card.  It may be simple but I think it turned out to be one of the most elegant cards I have made to date!

I used a monochromatic color scheme in cream.  I used colonial white card stock from CTMH and a damask pattern from the DCWV At Home stack.  I inked the edges with Chamomile ink from Paper Trey ink (this and the Chi are must haves) and Yellow Cadmium from Color Box.  The two colors give a really nice vintage tea stained look.

I used the Manhattan Flower texture folder from Stamin Up/Sizzix, cut out the main flower and inked with the same two colors.

I have a lot of sentiment stamps but most of them are small, I found this one from A Stamp In The Hand in my garage sale haul box--the font was perfect for this card.  I stamped in a slightly darker color (desert sand from CTMH) so that it would be readable and blend in to the over all feel of the card.

I also finished the inside with a couple bits of the scrap pattern paper from the front of the card.
Thanks for stopping by today.  I am madly working on a project to share on Everyday Cricut on Saturday--but i do have a few more projects to share this week.
Make it a great one

Layered Sympathy Card

Here we are at the start of another week. I will be sharing projects this week using a selection of papers and tools that are budget friendly! I will have a paper review on Tuesday and my goal is to show that you can make a number of projects with the same papers that all have very different feelings.
Today I have a sympathy card.

I used a number of layers and a unique orange and grey color combo. I added some texture to the solid grey layer using the Cuttlebug and folder from the Asian bundle.


Using a EK Success punch, I made a 'top note' of sorts and stamped the sentiment using a Papertrey Ink stamp and the bees from an SEI set. I inked the edges twice--once with a close match orange shade and then over inked that with a dusty grey. I added some herringbone twill tape I had in my ribbon bucket.


Here is a close up of the layers--you can also do a lot with planning the placement of the printed paper--since I was using a paper that had a border print I made sure that you could still see the grey bees which tie the color combo together.

***Update--I have heard your comments about the black type face in the comments and it being hard to read--I did my research and found out how to change it and it should now match the text color of the main post--much easier to read and enjoy eveyone's comments--thanks for the feedback and hope you like the update!

Thanks for stopping by. I usually one post on Monday Wednesday and Friday but this week I have something to share everyday! This weekend crafting came before laundry--
Have a great day!