Pet Sympathy for JAI #657

 

Hello and happy Friday! It's the end of another week and we are nearing the Shortest Day here in Australia. That is when our mornings and evenings will slowly become lighter and we can begin to look towards Spring. I hope that you all have had a good week and are ready to do some crafting this weekend.

This week at Just Add Ink we have this clean and graphic Sketch Challenge for you from Nikki.

It is such a fabulously versatile sketch as you can see on the challenge blog from all the design team members cards. I hope that you'll be able to pop on over and see and I'd love it if you were able to join us!

This week I used the sketch to create a pet sympathy card using this very touching set called Fill My Heart by Whimsy Stamps. 

Sadly, a lovely friend's dog that I have known for most of his life, is terminally ill. When I initially saw the sketch, rows of paw prints came to mind. So that was the starting point of this card and then slowly the other details took shape. 

A ruler was used to slowly and surely stamp the individual paw print image from the Happy Tails set and emboss these in gold. 

Then the dog image was stamped and coloured with Copics and the touching sentiment was also embossed with gold being the accent colour for the card.

So that is my card for this week. What will you make with this clean and versatile sketch we have for you at Just Add Ink this week? I can't wait to see!

Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Shaded Spruce, Gold Foil

Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Accessories: Die Cutting Machine, Stitched Rectangle Framelits, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Metallic Sequins Assortment, Gold EP

'Til next time,

Jan

Pet Sympathy for JAI #421

Happy Friday everyone and welcome back :-) It's been a busy and rather chilly week here in Melbourne but we are over half way through Winter now so the days are getter longer again.

It's time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink and this week we have a fabulous clean and simple and ever so versatile sketch for you to use from Narelle. Our design team have created a fabulous array of cards to inspire you so we hope that you will pop on over and take a look and join us :-)

For my card, I created a pet sympathy card for a lovely friend. I moved the Sentiment Panel to the bottom of the circle and it just needed a little heart 😊
The gorgeous images are all from a Whimsy stamp set called Fill My Heart and I added some shading underneath it with a Watercolor Pencili. The paw print stamp used for the background is also part of the same set.

Our pets are part of our families and give so much more than they receive so when their time comes to say goodbye it is as heart wrenching as losing any human. When a lovely friend shared her loss this lovely stamp set came to mind and I hope it will bring some comfort.
On a happier note...a family is coming to meet Honey, the very sweet young Lab/Kelpie I've been fostering this weekend so fingers crossed all goes well and she is settled soon. 😊

Card stock: Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Real Red
Inks: Early Espresso, Versamark
Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, White EP, Heart Punch (retired), Basic Rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you can take a moment to pop on over to Just Add Ink and see all the fabulous inspiration from the design team and I look forward to seeing what you will create with this great versatile sketch too!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan