Pitcher Vase Sympathy Card

Sadly one of our longtime church members lost his battle with Parkinson's a few days ago, and I've been making sympathy cards for his family members. One of his sisters is married to one of my husband's uncles, so I wanted to create this special card for Aunt Judy. I went with a pink and black color palette and created a black top-folding A2 card base to start. Then I ink blended an ombre background using all 4 colors in Altenew's Bubblegum Dreams ink collection. I stenciled over the background with Altenew's Lattice Blossoms stencil and some of the Fuchsia ink from the Bubblegum Dreams collection. I trimmed the panel to 4 1/8 by 5 3/8 and set it aside.

For the focal point, I die cut and embossed a pitcher from Altenew's Pitcher Vases set out of some watercolor paper I had added Lindy's Magicals to. I then added some die cuts I had created with black cardstock I had spritzed with gold metallic watercolor and die cut with Altenew's Zero Waste: Berries & Branches die. I arranged them in the pitcher and thought the pitcher needed more than foam tape to help keep it from getting lost on the background. So I die cut one of Altenew's Nested Arches dies out of vellum and adhered the pitcher vase to the vellum with bits of Altenew's Instant Dimension Foam Tape. Then I decided where I wanted to put the vellum arch and chose where to place my sentiment stamp. I added the background panel to my MISTI and stamped the sentiment before adhering the vellum arch to the card. To finish the card, I adhered the background panel to the black card base. 

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 Challenges I'm entering:

{Cupcake Inspirations}: ATG (1/3; ends 7/10/26)

Make My Monday Challenge Blog: Use a Stencil (1/3; ends 6/28/26)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of craft/hobby (1/8; ends at the end of the month)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (1/4; ends 6/26/26)

Crafty Catz: ATG (1/5; ends 6/18/26)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 6/29/26)

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game!: ATG with option of butterflies (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love Challenges Blog: ATG with Birthdays, Engagements, Weddings, Anniversaries and/or Sympathies (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Add a sentiment (1/5; ends 6/17/26)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (4/4; ends at the end of the month)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite sentiment and why? When I need sympathy cards, I find myself turning to this Heartfelt sympathy stamp most of the time because it's so elegant. I like that it's a bit more personal than just "with sympathy" (1/3; ends 6/17/26)

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Inspiring creativity 8-ways each week: Center row down: Gold/Black, free, stencil (1/3; ends 6/18/26)

A Cut Above: ATG with die cuts (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of anything but a card (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Monochrome and/or birthday + a sentiment (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with option of polkadots and/or stripes (2/6; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 6/24/26)

Allsorts challenge blog: Anything from a garden (2/5; ends 6/18/26)

Creative Inspiration Challenges: ATG (2/2; ends at the end of the month)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party: ATG in or from a garden (1/5; ends 7/6/26)

Paper Rocks Scissors: ATG with paper and/or scissors (I used scissors to cut the foam tape pieces) (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

The Diva's that cut ....paper!: ATG with die cuts (2/4; ends at the end of the month)

Daisy Chain Challenges: Not square (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG with option of birthday/anniversary (unlimited; ends 6/12/26)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

--Numbers 6: 22-26