Serene Seahorse

For my Visible Image DT post this week, I’m making a sympathy card.  There are a wide variety of images you can use for a sympathy card.  Quite often we use flowers but whilst this card was for a lady, it was her father that had passed away, so I decided against flowers.  Looking through my stash for alternative images, I opted for the seahorse from Create Your Calm.

I’d prepared an inky background and used the stamps from Dare To Swim to add fish and foliage to the panel.

After colouring in the seaweed, I stamped some coral using pink dye ink.  The coral stamp is actually the large tree from Into The Woods.

The seahorse was stamped using Versafine Clair Twilight ink and clear heat-embossed.  I used my MISTI as the stamp is quite large so I could restamp if required.  I added colour to the seahorse by painting with silver Distress Mica spray “Frozen”.

To create a frame, I first die-cut the Torn Fishcut from navy card.  Using a Distress Embossing Ink Dabber, I dabbed ink randomly around the panel and added some green embossing powder and heat set.  I repeated this heat-embossing with navy and metallic mix embossing powders and then trimmed the panel into pieces and glued them around the panel to make the seahorse the focus.

Finally, to finish the card, I stamped the sentiment from With Sympathy, trimmed it and attached to the panel with foam tape.  The panel was backed with navy card and then attached to a white square card blank.