Purple Rose of Sympathy

Good evening!  At least where I am it is evening.  I am squeaking in at the last minute with a card for JustRite Stampers' Challenge.  This time it is a sketch challenge.  You can find out all of the details by going to their site here.  I decided to make a sympathy card using my With Sympathy clear stamp set from JustRite.  I  love that beautiful frame and the rose is also a personal favorite.  I recently had made it a goal to use some colors that I don't usually use, so I chose purple.  I wasn't sure how I was going to color that rose purple, but I really like the way it turned out.  Now, on the screen it may have more of a blue appearance, but it is actually violet.  I colored it using Copic colors V20,22,25,28 and a bit of V17.  For the leaves I used G40, and BG93,96,99.  Part of the challenge was to use one of JustRite's background stamps, if you have one....which  I don't...yet.  So, in the meantime, I made my own background by stamping the roses as my background.  I matted that with some purple cardstock, inked and stitched it, then wrapped some ribbon around it.  This is not your ordinary ribbon, and I am wondering if my friend Kush is going to recognize it...lol.  It is recycled from when I went shopping and the retailer tied a ribbon on my bag.  It just so happened to be the perfect color for my card!  :)  The rose was trimmed down from it's original 2 bloom size to fit this frame edge.  I pulled out my new find....my Krylon Gold Leafing pen and went to work on most of the edges.  I tell you, I want to gold leaf everything now...lol...my dachshund is getting nervous!  Nah, I wouldn't gold leaf him....hmmm.  Anyways, I finished it off by adding some pearls.  Thank you to JRS for a really great sketch to play with this week!  And thank you for stopping by!  See you soon!

Katie

Supplies:  With Sympathy stamp set, Nested Oval Medallion Label dies-JRS; Small Oval die-Spellbinders; Classic White, Classic Ivory cardstock-Flourishes; Elegant Eggplant ink and cardstock, Crumb Cake ink, pearls, foam dimensionals-SU!; Ribbon-stash; Krylon 18KT Gold Leafing Pen; Chamomile and Chai inks-PTI; Peeled Paint Distress Ink-Tim Holtz; Singer sewing machine