Inspiration Week: Introducing Pet Sympathy Stamps & Dies

Hello there!  We're halfway through our sneak peeks for our new release for Fall coming out on Friday. 

Today I am popping in to share a new set for a very specific occasion called Pet Sympathy.  We all love our animals like part of the family and sometimes traditional sympathy cards and stamps don't quite fit the occasion when someone we love loses their beloved fur baby...

Up first is a puppy dog angel card.  The stamp set comes with separate pair of wings and halo to expand the versatility of the set and allow you to use the animals for non-sympathy related projects.  I started by inking the center of my card panel with Tumbled glass distress ink and then layered a cloud from our Sunny Sentiments set.  I colored my pup with Copic Markers and then added some glossy accents to the heart in his mouth for a touch of shine.  I then stamped a random heart pattern with the two solid hearts from the set on my card base and repeated the red color for part of my sentiment.

For my next card I created the kitty version of my first card.  I love that I was able to color my kitty to match my own favorite kitty growing up.  There are really so many ways you could color him.  

I created my cloud background by first creating a stamped scallop edge with our Sunny Borders stamps and then layering it with clouds from our Rain or Shine and Sunny Sentiments stamp sets.  For my background I lightly inked on some worn lipstick distress ink and stamped my sentiment in a soft grey.  It still felt a bit plain so I went back and added some random tiny pink hearts and it's just what it needed.

Up next is a card using an interchangeable sentiment that can be used for either cats or dogs depending on how you stamp it.  The set also comes with a toy mouse and a ball of yarn so by substituting the accessories this card design could work for either a dog or a cat.

My next card uses a similar design with the paw prints.  This time I used our Traditional Tag Topper dies to frame my sweet dog in the dog bed with some of my favorite sentiments from the set.

To put my dog inside the bed, I stamped and colored a second dog bed to layer over the top, cutting off a portion of the bed for the top layer.  The dies that come with this set also cut out that interior line, making it super easy to slip your dog or cat inside the bed.

Up next I created a non-sympathy card by pairing the images from the set with a sentiment from our older Furever Friends stamps.

I have another everyday themed card, this time pairing the kitty from our Furever Friends set with the cat bed from the new stamps.  It's so fun to finally have some accessories to go with the kitties from that set!  For my background, created my own patterned paper by repeating the phase "I heart cats" using some of the extra words from the Pet Sympathy set.  I love the red, black and white color scheme, don't you? 

Here's a full look at the new Pet Sympathy stamps and coordinating dies available for purchase on Friday morning.

     

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peek.  Would you like to win a $25 gift code to our online store to spend on some of the new sets?  Use the rafflecopter below to enter to win.  We will be giving away a new gift code each day for a total of five chances to win!  Contest closes on July 22nd at Midnight PST.  Winners will be announced on Sunday, July 23rd.  :)

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Make sure to check back tomorrow when I will be sharing a super fun set for fall and beyond that I'm hoping you'll fall in love with as much as I have. ;)

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