With Sympathy

Here's my take on the current Fusion challenge. I paired the sketch with elements from the inspiration photo (color scheme and images featuring natural elements) to create this sympathy card.

Instead of trees, I used flowers for my focal image. My flowers are from the My Favorite Things Flower Silhouettes stamp set.  I stamped them several times on a long pierced rectangle panel I created by doing some creative die cutting with a long pierced fishtail flag die.  I masked off the edges with sticky notes so that none of the flowers extended into the border between the pierced line and the edge of the panel.  The stamped panel was matted on dark brown cardstock, then on kraft cardstock.  I adhered the stamped piece to a dark brown cardstock panel over a white paper doily.  The panel was matted on kraft cardstock, then adhered to an easy to write on white card base.  For the sentiment, I stamped the "with sympathy" sentiment from the Essential Sentiments set on a narrow white strip in dark brown ink.  After matting the text on dark brown cardstock, I adhered it to the cardfront, overlapping both the image panel and the doily element.

Materials Used:
Flower Silhouettes and Essential Sentiments stamp sets, Pierced Fishtail Flag STAX dies (My Favorite Things); Espresso Truffle ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Early Espresso cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink); paper doily; foam tape