With Love...

My husband is a veterinary internal medicine specialist.  He can be a huge help to many pets and their owners... but, unfortunately, many of the patients he sees are very sick and his job is just to manage symptoms to help them feel as good as they can until... well, until they pass on.
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I try to supply my husband with handmade sympathy cards to send to his clients.  Sometimes he needs more than I can keep up with... but I like to make each one individually.  I think each person who is mourning the loss of a beloved pet should get a special card.  I know that what my husband writes inside his cards (handmade or not) is the part that makes them special... I just hope that the people who really need the touch of a handmade card get one.  (I pray to God that He takes care of that part.  I am sure He does.)

New Year, New Post

Simple Design

I have never been good at combining colors so I rely on my color wheel to help me out all of the time. I thought this turned out to be a calm combination of colors that did not turn out too bad for a sympathy card.

Have I Shared This One Yet? Ha ha!

Summer vacation arrived here a couple of weeks ago or so for my boys... they are keeping me very busy, to say the least... but I miss blogging. We will see if I get any computer time worked into my schedule to go along with card-making time.

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Here is one in a group I made for my husband and his clients at work. He has shared that a couple of clients have appreciated the hand made cards... I just want to share that they are made with love and sympathy for those who receive them.

Sympathy

The Lord heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3

Archive...

A lot of the cards I will post here are ones I have done some time ago. I have kept a photo archive of cards for quite a while now.

I try to do a lot of original designs and ideas... but I do "scraplift" ideas from the Stampin' Up! (registered trademark) catalog and other magazines. (The top card in this post is one done at a workshop... so that plan was made by or copied by my friend/Stampin' Up! consultant. The next two cards I did myself. The middle card's photo is not too good... but I will add here that the word "hope" is done in bronze embossing like the emblem shape is.)