My thirteen-year-old daughter and I were both saddened to read in the church bulletin that one of her favorite former teachers at school had recently lost her father.  I thought it was time for my daughter to learn how to write a sympathy card.  I think that sympathy cards are often the hardest ones to write, especially if one didn’t personally know the deceased.  We talked about what kinds of things are usually written in these cards and how to personalize them.  I was so proud of her for wanting to learn this.

I pulled a favorite set, Choose Happiness, which I haven’t used in a while off the shelf.  The sentiment is from a hostess set, Bloom with Hope.

I used some of the Naturals White card stock, and used a color scheme of Mossy Meadow, Basic Black and Pool Party.

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I needed to make a thank you card for my MIL, and since she is a big bird lover I knew I wanted her card to have a bird.  That gave me an excuse to use one of my favorite stamp sets, Choose Happiness.

I used a color scheme of Rich Razzleberry, Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon and Night of Navy.

My daughter and I are off to help 30 volunteers stamp away this morning.  It is Make a Difference Day, and we are coordinating an event for the Visiting Nurses Association.  They want 300 cards for their hospice patients, so I have been busy planning all of the cards and cutting all of the card stock.  The volunteers will be doing the stamping and assembly.  It will be fun to see it all come to completion this morning.

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I was in the mood to make a collage-style card yesterday, so I pulled out one of my favorite sets for that style, Choose Happiness.  I decided to use some Fall colors with it to be a bit different.  Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow and Blackberry Bliss were what I ended up using, mainly because I wanted to use some washi tape too.  I threw in some little bits of black as well.

The sentiment comes from the sentiment set, And Many More.  The splatters are from Gorgeous Grunge.

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You may or may not know that while I love the color purple, I have an aversion to stamping with it.  I don’t know why.  Sometimes things like this just aren’t logical and can’t really be explained.  So while I know many of you fell totally in love with the new color Blackberry Bliss when the new In-Colors were revealed a couple of months ago, I secretly thought, “Uh-oh.  Another purple.”

But I’m trying to overcome my purple phobia.  I think Blackberry Bliss is a gorgeous color, and I am determined to use it.  Don’t you have a color that strikes fear in your heart when you see it in a color challenge or need to use it for a certain project?  Surely I’m not the only one.

I recently got the new set, Choose Happiness, and wanted to ink it up.  I started with some of the Typeset dsp, which I painted with a layer of gesso, and then spritzed with some Blackberry Bliss ink.  The dsp is from the Park Lane dsp pack.

I think this stamp set has such pretty images.  I chose some and created a bit of a collage with the stamps and embellishments.  I think this will be a fun set with which to play around.

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