CAS Challenge #216

 Hello everyone.  Today I have a card for the CAS Challenge #216

This is the sketch.

I noticed a couple of the DT had made sympathy cards and realised that I have none in my stash!  Now, as we all know, a sympathy card is not something that you want to make in a hurry and sometimes, at a time like this, it may be the last thing you want to be doing (making a card).  So, I thought it might be a good idea to not only get inspiration from the sketch, but also from the DT's inspiration designs also.

So, here it is (explanation at the end).

I started with a plain white card base, with a slightly smaller black piece of card-stock that I embossed with some matte black embossing paste through a stencil (which doesn't show at all in the pictures).  Next, I adhered a smaller white panel on top of the black one, on which I had stamped the bird image (manufacturer unknown).  Then I adhered that to the base card with foam for a bit of dimension.

Finally, I heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of black card-stock and adhered that with foam too.

I finished the whole thing off with a few black enamel accents and a light spritz of home-made shimmer.

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