Clean and Simple Challenge

Happy Sunday all!  I am entering my first challenge over at The Glamorous Side of Scrapping, the Clean and Simple Sunday challenge.

This challenge is...

Pattern Paper - you just need to use patter paper on your clean and simple card!

And at CardzTV the challenge is Anything Goes!

Here is my entry:

This is a 6 x 6 kraft cardstock base.

 The pattern paper is from the Lost & Found collection from My Mind's Eye

This will be a sympathy card for a co-worker whose brother just recently passed away.

Hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by.

Sympathy cards

Hello all!  Today I had to make two sympathy cards for co-workers who lost family members.  I used the same colors and cuts, but made them a little different.  The butterfly was cut at 2" from the Ashlynn's Alphabet cart, which was the first cartridge I bought at a Black Friday Wal-Mart sale years ago and don't really use very often.

I used basic A2 card bases and re-folded one into a gate fold.  I covered the inside entirely so you can't tell from the inside.  I embossed both butterflies.  The second butterfly I really like how it turned out, it is much prettier in person.  I cut the second butterfly from the same pattern paper I used for the base.  I then used the "stencil" part of the cut so I would know where the image would cut on the paper and inked over the pattern paper and also added accents in yet a second shade of ink.  I then embossed both butterflies with clear embossing powder three times to add some weight to them.  I don't have the extra thick embossing powder (yet) so I used extra layers and it works similarly.  Everything was inked in a dark purple for some highlights.

thanks for stopping by and happy scrapping!!