Yellow Rose Sympathy

Hoo-Ray for Saturday, and welcome.  When you have time, please take a moment and check out the new page recently added for the lovely friends' cards that I've received. I copied this excellent idea from our Darnell - who termed it Happy Mail. A great title, but I didn't want to copy too terribly blatantly, so I named my new page Friends' Cards. I hope I can successfully add new cards as they are gratefully received. I love to share them with everyone, as we are always so thrilled to see this kind of mail.

Unfortunately we lost a very dear neighbor last week. It had been expected for a while, but it happened the day that DH had his heart cath. (and thanks for all your good wishes for him. His checkup went fine...just typical of a dude his age!). Here's the card we are sending to this family. He was the kind of neighbor who was always there when you needed a helping hand. He had a very strong faith, so knew where his journey would end. We know he is with his Father now, but we shall miss him a great deal.

- Inkadinkadoo image, stamped in Momento Desert Sand. Didn't want a black outline as I intended to use yellow copics for the rose. There's just a touch of pink in areas close to the petal shadows. Added clear WoStella in places on the rose and the leaves (copic yellow green family). Background is BG0000.

- S/B Label 4 die cut;  faux mat cut by outlining the outer edge of Label 4. Shook down the WoS really well - outlined the blue mat and it looked very silvery- instead of  the usual glisten of the Clear WoS.   Dylusions blues sprayed on water color paper created the mat - this piece was intended for another project; decided I liked it here. S/B Tranquil Moments die cut the yellow design paper, which was snipped in the middle to fit around the edge of the blue mat. Lightly inked with DI Sage Green to compliment the green leaves. I see in the photo that I didn't get this placed evenly on each side, but drat it, didn't catch it at the time.

-  Sizzix die cut leaves from water color paper sprayed with green shades of Dylusions, and snipped apart to fit the placement I wanted. The paper had been heat embossed with a white rose design, then sprayed. Didn't like the result, but it worked nicely for the die cut leaves. Some of the embossing shows on a few leaves. WoS applied and some veining with a copic green multi-liner.

- Colorbox Watercolor theme pad (from Walmart - $5 for a 12x12 pad) used for the card front.  Embossed with a new Crop Stop EF - has doves and leaves. Card base is white.

- Sentiment stamped on the snipped out middle portion of the yellow S/B Tranquil Moments die cut, using a S/B label die. Blue mat behind the sentiment is from the blue water color paper.

- added some tiny pearls.

Hope that you have wonderful plans for this Saturday. Thanks for spending a few moments here with me. I appreciate each visit & comment that you care to leave, and am always happy to answer any questions you might have about any card that I post. Enjoy your day, and Big Hugs. Ya'll come back soon.