March 9, 2010
Sympathy Cards - Silhouette
Sympathy cards are sometimes very difficult to make especially if you are making them for a specific reason. I feel sympathy cards are best kept simple with clean lines, and not too many embellishments.
Believe it or not I actually used a sample of wallpaper I had in my craft supplies for this particular card. The great thing about wall paper is it has a texture to it so it feels different to normal paper.
Because the wallpaper was black and white I decided to use black card for this handmade card idea.
I cut the wallpaper slightly smaller than the black card. I made sure I selected a nice piece where there was a big flower.
I then placed a piece of black organza ribbon along the back of the wall paper so that when turned over I could then make a bow.
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I placed a sticky dot behind the bow to hold it in place.
I then attached the wall paper to the front of the sympathy card. As this particular wallpaper has a slightly shiny feel to the back of it I found sticky dots worked the best at holding it in place.
I wanted to add an appropriate sympathy card wording. I found a stamp that had the words ‘with sympathy’ on it.
I cut off a plain piece from what was left of the wallpaper and wiped an anti static bag across the surface. If you do not have an anti static bag in your craft supplies a small amount of talc will also do the trick. By wiping an anti static bag over the paper ensures that the embossing powder will only stick to the ink and not to any other area of the sympathy card.
After stamping the sympathy card wording I carefully poured black embossing powder onto the stamped words. Next just use a heat gun to emboss the sympathy card wording taking real care not to burn the wallpaper.
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Once embossed I mounted the sympathy card wording onto black card and then onto the front of the sympathy card.
This card has a really different feel to it because of the wall paper that has been used. It is really cheap to make and can be repeated using different wallpapers.
You could also change the sympathy card wording here to a happy birthday message as this card would be fitting for many greeting card variations.
