WHERE I'VE BEEN (AND A PRETTY CARD)

 

Remember when I said that I was going to try to breathe more life into blogging?  I was doing pretty good, and then we bought a house and moved.  Funny thing . . . my son is the one who was looking for a house and planning to eventually move, but his search found a house that he wanted my husband and I to look at.  My first reaction was that it was really pretty but too big and quite a bit above budget.  Several days later, we looked at the photos and specs and decided to do a walk-through.  Long story short, the house was perfect, we bought it, we've been slow-moving for about six weeks now, and my craft room is still in limbo.  I don't think I've stamped or created anything with paper since early December, and I can hardly wait until the rest of my craft room gets moved to the new house.  It's the big storage items (countertop, cabinets, drawers, etc.) that I'm waiting on.  Today I needed to make a sympathy card, and the February Paper Pumpkin kit was the only set of readily available products. It was quite nice to use a little of this and a little of that to create just the card that I needed.

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s retired "Heal Your Heart" stamp set, which I always keep close at hand.  

As much as I enjoy how quick the Paper Pumpkin kit projects are to make and the fact that 99% of what you need can be found in that one little box, I sometimes feel that more layers and embellishments are needed for the projects.  So I added a few snippets and layers to give my card some texture and dimension.  

You know that I like to make sympathy cards as needed because, during the process, I think about the person who will receive the card and the person who has passed.  I won't mail a sympathy card unless I'm pleased with it, and I was quite pleased with this one.

Hopefully, it won't be too long before my craft room is in perfect order and ready to fully enjoy!

Have a stampin' good day!