Cardz 4 Guyz Sympathy Card

Welcome to C4G challenge # 267! This challenge’s theme, By the Water, has many possibilities. When I started working on this card, I thought the end product would be a birthday card. As things tend to do, this card morphed into a sympathy card, mainly because of the colors. Creating sympathy cards is hard, at least for me. Now, I have a couple of female cards and this male card. However, this could also easily be a birthday card for a guy. Color combinations for this card are plentiful. I chose white, Seaside Spray, and Basic Grey.

Here’s my card:

Clean and Simple

Even though I used four stamp sets, the layout, whitespace, and lack of embellishments keep it clean and simple.
I started with a Seaside Spray base, trimmed to 11 inches by 4-1/4 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches. I wanted to be able to space out the stamping in the landscape mode rather than cramming into a portrait mode.
The Basic Grey mat measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
Next, I did all my stamping. The Seaside Spray water on both the front and inside white cardstock comes from the Waterfront stamp set.
Then I stamped a ship onto the white cardstock using Basic Grey using the Stamp-aratus so I could get the dark color I wanted.
I also stamped a ship on a piece of scrap white cardstock and fussy cut out just the ship. The mast and smoke would have been very difficult to fussy cut, so I didn’t even try. I really like the way the different depths turned out.
The sympathy sentiment on the front and inside come from the Path of Petals photopolymer stamp set in the January – June mini-catalog. It is a very pretty sympathy set of sentiments and dainty floral stamps.
Even after I stamped the Smoky Slate sun from the Waterfront stamp set, I thought the front needed something else. Enter the fourth stamp set, Sailing Home. There’s two set of birds on the front and one on the inside.

Finishing Up

Finally, I ran the white cardstock for the front through the Big Shot using the textured 3d embossing folder, I trimmed it to 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
The white inside panel measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
I used mini-dimensionals to very carefully attach the fussy cut ship to the front of the card.
My favorite adhesive, multipurpose glue, was used to adhere the layers on the front together and also for the panel on the inside of the card.
Easy-peasy. Clean and Simple. Completed.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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