The current Time Out Challenge is to CASE this card by Gina K: 

If you are new to the concept, CASE stands for Copy And Selectively Edit.  Gina has an easy to recognize style involving ink blending with stamping, often silhouette, over it, lots of white space, and a thin black mat mounted on a white card base.  This pet sympathy card, based on the comforting idea of The Rainbow Bridge, is my take on it.  I used small blending brushes and Distress ink with a stencil made with  a heart die from Stampin' Up and a piece of Gina K Masking Magic to create a rainbow heart.  The cat was cut from black cardstock using a die from Paper Roses and the sentiment is from an old Close to my Heart set, Big Hug.  I used a die from Altenew's Mix and Match Frame set to cut the black dots around the edge.

I also plan to enter this the Make My Monday All Creatures Great and Small and Allsorts A/G with option of All About Hearts challenges.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi

 

In my world pets are four legged children whose loss requires a sympathy card.  I made this one based on this Paper Players sketch:

When I saw it I thought of a stencil and mask I recently ordered from A Colorful Life Designs .*  I started with a panel cut with a stitched rectangle set by Penny Black and used the stencil and Gina K Designs Amalgam ink to create the cat.  Next I used the mask to cover the cat because although  amalgam ink is waterproof , it is not ink repellent, and I did not want to color over her.  I then masked off a rectangle and then the outer edges of the cat.  To make the rounded corner I used a Hero Arts Infinity die to cut a small rectangle from masking paper and then cut off part of the negative space piece to use as a mask on that corner.  Now that I think about it, I could have just used one of the dies to create a rectangle stencil and masked off the excess.  I started out using Distress inks in Festive Berries, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet, to make the rainbow until I dipped my brush into the green when I wanted violet and didn't realize it until the ink was on the paper! Oh well.  I went back over the rainbow with Distress Oxides which made a more intense rainbow than I had planned but saved the card.  If you are not familiar with the association of rainbows with the loss of a pet, it comes from the Rainbow Bridge poem.  I then stamped a sentiment that is part of an old set, Big Hugs, from Close to My Heart and added a few sparkles. 

I have a new lighthouse stamp!  Many of y'all know of my fondness for the Cape Henry lighthouse in my hometown, Virginia Beach.  There is, however, another lighthouse that has also occupied my heart for many years.  You see, my family, all of whom (except me) live within spitting distance of both ocean and bay beaches, rents a beach house in the Outer Banks near Cape Hatteras.  Yes, we invade someone else's hometown.  Cape Hatteras is the site of the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States.  In case you are thinking the the designer of this stamp took artistic license drawing the lighthouse so close to the beach, I can assure that this is where the Cape Hatteras lighthouse stood until 1999 as concern grew that the encroaching ocean would wash it away.  In a feat of modern engineering, the lighthouse was moved 2900 feet inland where it will hopefully stand for years to come.

To break in my new stamp I made a quick sympathy card following this Freshly Made Sketch: