Today I had the very sad task of making another sympathy card. One of my new friends from CTCA lost her husband to cancer last week. This never gets any easier.
This is for 2 challenges, SC157, and WT147, to use flowers. The main image panel started with a pale background of Pearl-Ex and Lumiere, (Luminous Pearls tech.) overstamped and embossed with the flowers from Oriental Paintings. I then watercolored the design, and finished the panel with the Cracked Glass technique.
The sentiment panel is embossed with my own mixture of Black and Galaxy Gold EPs. I like the soft, burnished gold-black look this produces. It reads, *May the beautiful memories that fill your heart help to bring you comfort.* I've used a variety of decorative papers, and finally, sponged the same Lumiere mixture onto the brown panel. Everything is popped up on foam tape, for extra dimension.
Thanks for looking!
Happy New Year to All,
Maddy
Date: Friday, January 4, 2008 GMT Views: 2357
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Registered: May 2, 2006 Location: Northern Ontario Posts: 15152
Fri, Jan 04, 2008 @ 5:57 AM
Maddie, this card reminds me why I have your gallery favorited. This is so special, so gorgeous, so full of artistic beauty. I love everything about it from the watercolored flowers to the cracked glass and the neutral backgrounds that bring out the colors in the flowers. I also love your stamped Asian theme. Just WOW!
------------------------------ Crissy Armstrong
My SCS Gallery My BLOGwhere you can find more card details and links to my images as well as some videos I've made of my colouring process.
Friends are like the walls of a house. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes you lean on them. But sometimes, it's enough to know they're just standing by.
Registered: April 21, 2007 Location: Mesa, Arizona Posts: 24458
Fri, Jan 04, 2008 @ 8:15 AM
This is just stunning. So beautiful and one of the prettiest examples of cracked glass I've seen. Maddy, I don't know you but have heard so many wonderful things about you in the past few months that I feel we are friends. I'm so happy to see that you are able to stamp again and pray you continue to improve. I'm so sorry for your friends loss but this absolutely lovely card should bring a measure of comfort.
Registered: February 19, 2006 Location: Texas (Killeen, Fort Hood area) Posts: 6985
Fri, Jan 04, 2008 @ 10:08 AM
This is gorgeous!! Sorry you had to make it for someone, but it will certainly mean a lot to them.
------------------------------ DebThe Dolphin/Whale trainin' ~~ Army Mama Spammy. Prayers and Blessings for all our troops, and their families!! My Gallery LinkIf you don't want to comment, you can just throw money. lol