Simple Stenciled Sympathy Card

Good morning!  Jessica Frost-Ballas here with a simple stenciled sympathy card.  It’s never fun to need one of these cards but I like to try to keep some on hand for when they’re needed.  This is a simple, meaningful design that can be easily mass-produced so that you have a little stash for those sad times.  You can find a video tutorial for this card below or at this link.

To start, I used Blending Buddy Ink Blending Brushes to blend a rainbow of distress oxide inks over the Paw Print Heart Stencil.  I used picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, cracked pistachio, salvaged patina, salty ocean, and shaded lilac oxide inks and blended back and forth until I had a smooth rainbow transition between the colors.  Once the panel was dry I added a few spritzes of shimmer spray to give it a soft sparkle.

Next I die-cut the Paw Print Shaker Tag from gold glitter cardstock.  I used the same gold glitter cardstock and white cardstock to die-cut the Simply Sentimental – Friend word as well.  Then I stamped a sentiment from A Sentiment For (Almost) Everything and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder before die-cutting it with the coordinating die.

I ended up die-cutting the friend outline and the sentiment outline two more times from white cardstock and layered them to create a thick chipboard like sentiment.  Then I adhered the pawprint to the stenciled panel and added the sentiments on top.  To finish the card I added a sprinkle of sparkling clear sequins.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an amazing weekend!

-Jessica Frost-Ballas