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Hello friends!
Several of you may have read about the tragic death of
Tom Murphy, an executive with Sprint Communications; such a horrible, horrible death! A couple people I work with know Tom; but particularly my boss. They were pledge brothers, have taken vacations together, gone fishing, skiing, etc. My boss's wife has known Tom even longer than my boss; so life has been tough this week. I wanted to make a sympathy card and finally made time tonight. The kids were exhausted after their 1st day of school, so they hit the sack early, leaving me some creative relaxation time. Ahhhh....
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Anyway, back to the sympathy card. The layout is from
Lord Have Mercy's Tuesday sketch - again, another great sketch!! I used Basic Grey's Porcelain paper; after My Mind's Eye, Basic Grey is my next favorite paper...in case you haven't noticed, I'm addicted to DP! Guess that's a pretty safe addiction, right? I paired it with PTI's Berry Sorbet and Vintage Cream.
I used the new stamp set from Verve Visual called "
Forever in our Hearts"; the set has such incredible sentiments as well as images. On the small strip across the bottom, I stamped the small leaf image in PTI
Vintage Cream (definitely one of my favorite inks).
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Also on the main sentiment panel, I stamped the large leaf image in
Vintage Cream, heat set it and then stamped the sentiment in
Berry Sorbet. Since I was using Mercy's sketch, I stitched across the top and bottom of the oblong panel and then used my favorite MS punch, Arch Lattice across the bottom of the card.
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I'm glad you stopped by and for a bit of fun before you go...some pictures from our first day of school! Please note, we have one teenager (yes, she has the teenager attitude going on - can't you just SEE it); one that likes to smile and one that doesn't like to smile. Bet you can identify
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them all. LOL
Have a great week - Hugs, ~M.
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WHAT'S IT TAKE?
Stamps: Verve Visual Forever in our Hearts
Ink: SU! Basic Black, PTI Berry Sorbet & Vintage Cream
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream & Berry Sorbet, Basic Grey Porcelain
Accessories: MS Arch Lattice Punch, Sew Mini, Brads,