Side Step Sympathy Card

My parents lost one of their best friends earlier this week, and I wanted to make them a special sympathy card. I chose a side step card and make the base out of heavyweight paper. Then I trimmed black cardstock for the layers on the panels of the card base.

For the flowers, I used Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Hellebore set and die cut lots of flowers out of purple cardstocks. The lighter purple colors I had watercolored and sprayed to create, and the darker purple is a shimmer purple that's even prettier in person. After die cutting all the pieces, I assembled the flowers and then die cut the leaves out of vellum.

For the basket, I used Altenew's Woven Basket Die Set and die cut the pieces out of papers I had sprayed to create the yellows. I assembled the basket and didn't adhere the top part to the back because I wanted to tuck in the leaves and flowers. I arranged them how I wanted them and used Glad Press N Seal to hold the arrangement together while I added liquid glue and foam tape to the back. I then adhered the arrangement to the panel. 

For the sentiment, I stamped "heartfelt sympathy" from Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Bewitching Rose set and trimmed it and adhered it to the card. 

To finish the card, I added several Hunkydory purple pearls. 

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Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (4/6; ends 9/12/25)

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As You Like It Challenge: Favorite coloring medium and why: I love using watercolors and sprays to color sheets of cardstock or watercolor paper and then die cutting flowers and other shapes out of the papers because the watercolors and sprays create such pretty textures (1/3; ends 9/3/25)

Cardz 4 Galz: Use vellum (I used vellum for my leaves) (1/3; ends 9/3/25)

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