Cards for the 10th--February 2025

I have had a request to show more sympathy cards, so my post on the 10th each month will be featuring those more often.  For today, I used the recently retired Regal Winter Designer Series Paper (DSP) along with the Perennial Postage dies and a brand new item, the Hole Punch Assortment.  These 3 little punches will be new Online Exclusives in March.  As a demonstrator, I was able to pre-order them last week.

It's actually a little ironic that I paired these punches with the Perennial Postage Dies, because the die set includes little dies to create holes to make tags.

I created my 2 cards, by selecting 2 patterns that I could interchange.  I had even more options than the 3 I show here.  I had a 4th option; the back side of the color-wash piece in front is another Blackberry Bliss print with tiny flowers.  

The color-wash print is in Bloom Impressions, a Sale-a-bration 2025 option.  The other 2 were in the now retired Regal Winter DSP.

To create my 2 cards, I cut the DSP to 3-3/4" X 5".  Layered them and cut them together using 2 Perennial Postage dies.  Then I swapped the cut shapes for each card.  It's another version of the 'stack, cut and shuffle' technique.

I finished off this card with the Blackberry Bliss & Gold 1/2" Textured Ribbon.  It's currently (as of 2/10/25) on the Last Chance list and is on sale!

For the little tag in this card, I found the 'to you' stamp in the Day to Celebrate stamp set, another Sale-a-bration 2025 option.  I wanted to keep my tags small so as to not cover up much of the beautiful DSP!  That's linen thread on the tag.

Thank you, Dianne and friends, for the suggestion this month!

Happy Stampin'!