Category: Sympathy Cards

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators. Fellow demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia are participating. We have a wide array of fun projects and design styles to share with you! Our theme this month is “Sympathy”. These are probably the cards that we don’t like to make, but they are the ones that have the most impact for the people receiving them.
You may be starting your hop here, or you may have landed from Nancy Reynolds’ blog. Did you love her project?

I used the New Horizons DSP for the background of my card. This is my FAVOURITE DSP in the January – June 2022 mini catalogue and will be retiring soon. At the time of writing, it was still available (and discounted to $14), but I expect it will sell out soon, and once it is gone, it is gone. Be sure to put in your order ASAP if you want a pack. I also used the Sending Smiles bundle. Although the name seems incongruous for a sympathy card, it does have the “Comfort and Strength” sentiment which works. The palm trees are cut using the Palms dies. These are also in the retiring mini catalogue, but have carried over to the annual catalogue. If you want these dies with the coordinating stamp set, you can order the Paradise Palms bundle before the end of June to take advantage of the bundle discount.

Be sure to complete the hop to see all the wonderful ideas that we have to share with you. The next stop is Maureen Rauchfuss. I can’t wait to see what she has created this month.

Shirley Merker
Julia Quinn
Annette McMillan
Julia Mazur
Terri Stewart
Nancy Reynolds 
Tracy Held <== YOU ARE HERE
Maureen Rauchfuss
Krissi Hannahs

Product List

Sending Smiles Bundle (English) [158707] $87.25	Palms Dies [157718] $61.00	New Horizons 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [157768] $20.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00
Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $16.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.50	Adhesive Sheets [152334] $19.25

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! It costs you $169 to sign up as a demonstrator and you can choose $235 worth of products for your starter kit! Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

Any orders placed by the 20th July 2022 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. This month’s tutorial bundle showcases masculine cards and uses a variety of stamp sets. Here is a sneak peek of the projects in this month’s bundle:

This is the card that I contributed this month. All the instructions to make are in the tutorial bundle.

Welcome to our Paper Crafting Blog Hop featuring talented Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. Fellow demonstrators from all over the globe including the USA, United Kingdom and Australia are participating. We have a wide array of fun projects and design styles to share with you! Our theme this month is “Fall”. Once again, I am in the reverse season, as we are supposedly in Spring (although someone forgot to tell the weather and it still feels like winter in Melbourne!)
You may be starting here, or you could have hopped over from Shirley Merker’s blog and seen her fantastic project.

I have taken a bit of poetic license with the theme today. One of my colleagues has just lost here brother, so I needed a sympathy card. I decided to use fall colours to make my card.

I used my blending brushes to make the background using Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler. I then stuck the Meadow Dies cut outs onto the background and cut it out with the Stitched So Sweetly dies. Although these are my least favourite cards to make, they do help to bring comfort to people who are grieving.

Be sure to complete the hop to see all the wonderful ideas that we have to share with you. The next stop is Annette. I can’t wait to see what she has created this month!

If you get lost along the way, here is the complete hop list:

Shirley Merker
Tracy Held
Annette McMillan
Julia Quinn 
Sue Boerner
Terri Stewart
Maureen Rauchfuss
Joy Nelson 
Krissi Hannahs

Product List

Quiet Meadow Bundle (English) [155847] $92.50	Stitched So Sweetly Dies [151690] $56.00	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087] $13.00	Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [147085] $13.00
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $13.00	Cajun Craze A4 Card Stock [121683] $15.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Gray Granite A4 Cardstock [147008] $15.25
Silver Foil 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Pack [156457] $17.50	Pale Papaya 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155672] $12.25	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220] $8.75

If you are like me and need to have absolutely everything in the catalogue, give some thought to joining my team! Talk to me if you would like more information, or you can sign up now.

If you live in Australia and don’t have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to assist you with your stamping needs. You can also shop from home at my online store.

Any orders placed by the 18th November 2021 will get a tutorial bundle as a thank you. This month’s bundle features a variety of Christmas projects from the annual and August – December mini catalogue, and contains 13 different (and stunning) designs by 13 international demonstrators. This will give you some great ideas to get started on your Christmas cards. Below is a sneak peak of the projects included in the bundle.