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An elegant sympathy card featuring product from Waffle Flower Crafts

An elegant sympathy card featuring product from Waffle Flower Crafts

Today I’m sharing a very elegant sympathy card featuring new releases from Waffle Flower Crafts.

Even though there are many steps to this card, the end result is very peaceful and calm.

I’m also testing out two cardstocks for hot foiling today and check out my tutorial to see which one worked the best!

I love a touch of shine for a sympathy greeting and the With Sympathy Duo Hot Foil Plates and coordinating dies are lovely staples to have on hand when needed!

YOUR NEXT STOP: 

The next stop on this blog hop is Gallina. To see the full hop list, check out the Waffle Flower Crafts blog, or see below:

Cathy Zielske—you are here!
Galina Filippenko
Rebecca Keppel
JJ Bolton
Caly Person
Dilay Nacar
Carol Hintermeier
Jeanne Jachna
Brenda Noelke
Channin Pelletier

BLOG HOP GIVEAWAYS:

For today’s hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on this blog and along the hop by 11:59pm EST on Tuesday January 10th, 2023 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts in this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower Blog on 01/11/2023.

BLOG HOP SPECIALS:

Specials: From now until January 8th, 2023, all orders placed at waffleflower.com will receive a mysterious gift (No code required!).

For those of you who are new to Waffle Flower, they have a Last Chance section on their website that lists many goodies for 25% off until they are gone! This would be a great place to start your collection! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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  6. Stefanie McHorney-Enokian says

    Love the elegance of this card! These are never easy to make and the foiled sentiments are perfect.

  8. Kay Furnish says

    Beautiful card, Cathy! I wouldn’t have thought to use those colors on a sympathy card, but I think the recipient would have their spirits lifted when they open the envelope.

  10. Evelyn says

    I really like this sympathy card!! Colors are so soothing and I want to get the products and make up some in soothing colors to have on hand. When you need them it is sometimes hard to make them. If they are already done then I can concentrate on the message I need to send to the recipient. Thanks Cathy for a really good card!!

  11. Laura J Millerick says

    Thank you Cathy for all the you tube videos you do! You are really awesome I hope you know that. My son is a graphic designer! I always told my children (I have 6 of them) that they need to do something they really love. I mean work is work, but you should still sort of like it right? Oldest to youngest careers are: Librarian (currently a library director), graphic designer, Plumber (he is awesome and who doesn’t want a plumber in the family), next a daughter who lost her retail position due to covid and now raising an 18 month old baby boy-an important job!, next a son who is in a great law firm doing their billing, he loves it! and they love him and my youngest a school secretary, and also has her side business as a photographer doing Photo shoots for many occasions.- but not a wedding photographer. Okay that’s enough about my kids. Thanks again and the reason I wrote all that is because I love your career path! – Laura

  12. Lori says

    I really like the soft colors you used, perfect for a Sympathy card.
    Thanks for sharing and for the video.

  14. Pattie Hurd says

    Beautiful card! The colors are so soft. After the Iris bundle, the Zig Zag die and stencils are my favorite.

  16. Bets Greene says

    This is the most lovely sympathy card, Cathy. You entire design is truly thought out. And the colors are just perfect. Its not a sad card, its a love card. 💜💜💜

  18. Cyndi Morris says

    I adore this card! Your colors are absolutely beautiful. Thanks for using the wonderful ZigZag texture die and stencil set–I honestly might have overlooked that one, but now it’s at the top of my wish list!

  20. Pam Nutting says

    Gorgeous, just gorgeous!! Thanks so much for sharing the foiling process on the 2 cardstocks. Love these stencils and dies.

  21. Patricia E Wilson says

    This is a good card for a sympathy card with the soothing colors on it. Foiling was great and glad you showed your experiment regarding the different card stocks. Thank you.

  26. Anne Sturgeon says

    Gorgeous colors Cathy. Sympathy cards aren’t the easiest to make. Yours is so lovely.

  27. Denise Bryant says

    I love the soft colors you used and the zig zag texture die! Beautiful sentiment too! Awesome card!

  34. Carol Scheevel says

    That embossed and stenciled card is one of my favorites I’ve ever seen you make and what a great concept in our crafting world!

  35. Julie H says

    I love watching your videos. I also adore the fact that you don’t have a huge extra room in your house for a total craft room, like many of us don’t have that luxury! Waffle Flowers has been a favorite of mine for a long time. (PS – the 10th is my B-day, what a nice gift that would be :-))

  44. Mary Holshouser says

    Your card is serene and relaxing.
    A wonderful color combination for
    a sympathy card. thanks for sharing

  46. Stacey Carpenter says

    I love the pastel colors you used Cathy and love the foiled cut out sentiment! also love the vellum!

  47. Connie Johnson says

    Cathy this is such a soothing card! I love your color palette and the vellum too! Thanks for inspiring me 🙂

  48. Lee Miner says

    Beautiful color choice, Cathy. Soothing is comforting so… wonderful idea. Don’t want to think about the person the card is for in the moment; so much better to have something this lovely on hand so you just have to struggle with the note.

  50. Mel H says

    I love this card. The colors you used are soothing but not depressing. Sympathy cards are SO hard!