Dragonfly sympathy card

 I often use butterflies on sympathy cards because of the tradition that says seeing a butterfly means that a departed loved one is thinking of you, but this card is for a friend who has just lost her adult son, and I felt a dragonfly would be a little more masculine - as well as adding a personal touch as she knows my love of dragonflies. 

I used a grey inkpad to stamp the fern, using a platform to stamp the first image twice, the second once and the third with just the residual ink from the previous stamping. I stamped the sentiment over the lightest impression, then added the dragonfly, stamping several times in purple ink. The whole thing is matted with matching grey card. 

The stamps I used are all so old their origins are lost in the depths of time! The fern was from a sheet of botanical stamps that may have come from Graphicus, the dragonfly was from a grab bag of UMs which were mostly All Night Media stamps and the sentiment was a gift from a friend. 

I am sharing this with 

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes  

Make My Monday - Sympathy 

Creative Crafting Uncles - Butterflies and/or Dragonflies 

Perfectly CAS - repeat stamping