Made with love for Laura in her favourite colour, purple.

 This stunning stamp is now available at Unity Stamp Co. and I decided to colour it up with my distress watercolour pencils.

 I made up several of these cards for my good friend's family. I used her favourite colour for the rose. It made me think of a song we both learned to play on the piano growing up called, The Rose. 

 I have been wanting to try out some ink smooshing with acetate and distress inks so I took the opportunity to try it to make up some sympathy cards.

 I love sunflowers and so when I saw this stunning image put out by Studio Katia this spring in support of Ukraine, I just couldn't wait to paint it.

 Sadly, I have needed quite a few sympathy cards this month. I have also been needing to make up a batch of plantable sympathy cards to send up to Fullfill, so I made up a batch up these. I pulled out the Budding Beauties Summer set from The Greetery and chose the peony sprig.

I couldn't decide whether I wanted this design to be on cardstock or plantable paper so I decided to make up both! I wanted to replenish my stash of sympathy cards and wanted a design that could be used for all seasons.

 This time of year I am often thinking of a very special lady in my life and I wish she was still here with us. To honour her this year I made a couple of plantable tags to give to my Mom and one of my Aunts who lives in town. My Grandma loved yellow roses so I thought it would be fitting to create these tags with those being the feature.

How do you make a card for someone who has lost their precious, beautiful, wanted and loved baby? Sadly, I guess I might have a better idea than many, but it still leaves me a bit breathless. I chose a daisy from The Greetery for this plantable sympathy card. In some cultures, the daisy flower is given to grieving parents. Daisies can symbolize innocence and purity. I purposely left this card blank and without sentiment so that the sender could add their own personal message. 

A friend requested a wordless black and white sympathy card from me. I was inspired a couple of weeks ago by Dawn McVey's clean and simple layout using Sketchbook Roses + Postal Frames dies from The Greetery and thought the layout would be perfect for this card.

I was able to put together a few of these sympathy cards to have on hand. I was inspired by all of the bone folding accents that Laurie Willison has been using with some of her cards using the amazing products from The Greetery, so I decided to give it a try myself! I just love these cotton sprigs that I picked up from MJ's Florals in town to match with this beautiful set.

I needed two sympathy cards, unfortunately, for some special people in my life and set to work with the eucalyptus sprigs from The Greetery to make up something special. Using the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and an inspiration pic sent from my Aunt, I set to work to create something using a black card base and this beautiful black and white buffalo plaid. I changed the direction of some elements in the sketch and made it work to use this beautiful halfsies diamond die that is also from The Greetery. I couldn’t decide which sprigs I liked best so I decided to do a little variation on each card. Can’t believe it’s FMS400 this week - wow! So happy I was able to play along :)!

The new Feels Like Home paper collection from Close To My Heart has my attention in the craftroom right now and I cannot stop creating with this beautiful paper! Here is a sympathy card I put together using CAS(E) this Sketch. See the picture links below for some of these products!

I've been wanting to get this older Close To My Heart wreath set for awhile now this fall. When I saw the current layout over at Freshly Made Sketches, it just screamed wreath to me! Needing some sympathy cards, I felt the wreath could serve as a warm heartfelt sympathy card. I intended to add the "three" items to the wreath at the bottom like the sketch, but it just looked too busy with this wreath, so I chose to make this paper bow instead.