Sympathy

A return to the same stamp for a sympathy card, this time in shades of purple. Stamped in black stazon, on an oil pastel background, then matted onto black card and trimmed to a narrow border. Two shades of purple vellum punched with a rope border and fixed down the centre of a white card blank. The sentiment is stamped onto an offcut of the background and fixed with foam pads.

Waste Nothing,or Serendipity in action!

Just to prove that there really is no such thing as scrap to a crafter. All of these images were stamped onto ‘waste’ paper that I was rolling off excess ink from my brayer onto.The purple one was a sheet I had started to make a background on, then didn’t like, hence the pale ‘moon’ , so I had put it in my scrap paper pile. When I bought this owl stamp (Crafty Individuals) ,and the treeline stamp, (Crafty Individuals) they seemed like the perfect partners to these.I probably couldn’t have made more perfect backgrounds for these stamps if I had been trying.Needless to say, I now look at my sheet I’m rolling off onto as a potential new background and change to a new one before I turn it muddy!