FWF for a Friend

Usually for my Friends With Flair Friday posts I like to be kind of upbeat, but today it is a little hard because of the reason I had to make this card.  My co-workers and I learned yesterday that one of our practitioner's lost her husband in a car accident on Wednesday evening!  It is such a sad time and I never feel like I know the right thing to do or say!

So the thing that comes easiest to me at a time like this is to make a card.  I tried really hard to make a card that will show her how much I care and hopefully give her some comfort.  I used the beautiful Bevy of Butterflies set from Unity and some of the new DP's from October Afternoon.  These OA papers are beginning to become a real favorite of mine.  I can't wait until I can purchase more of it!

I started with an off white card base and added the 3 x 4 inch paper sample from the soon to be released Thrift Shop line of paper from October Afternoon in the right upper corner.  Then I counter balanced that with a swatch  of the same sized piece of black CS in the bottom left hand corner.   The look I was going for was a Vintage/ Victorian look.  I added some distressing to the edges of the some of the panels and used embellishments that were cream

One of the butterflies was stamped onto more OA paper and a strip of small half pearls that I lightly aged with some Copics was added to the center for the body.

The image panel uses the same CS as the base.  I stamped the plant silhouette and sentiment from the same Bevy of Butterflies set.  I lightly sponged over the silhouette with Versamagic wheat colored chalk ink to reduce some of the harshness of the cream color. I liked my end product, but just wish I didn't need to send a sympathy card.  My heart is heavy for my friend.

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