Missing Tile Sympathy

A handmade greeting card sits on a wooden surface surrounded by crafting materials. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card. The card is lying on top of foiled cardstock. All items are arranged on a dark wood grain background.
A handmade greeting card sits on a wooden surface surrounded by crafting materials. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card. The card is displayed in front of crafting supplies including the press plate used to create it and autumn leaves in warm orange and yellow hues. All items are arranged on a dark wood grain background.
A handmade greeting card sits on a wooden surface surrounded by crafting materials. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card. The card is standing on crafting supplies including the press plate used to create it and autumn leaves in warm orange and yellow hues. All items are arranged on a dark wood grain background.

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While the patterns in the Spellbinders Sketchy Hexy BetterPress plate are playful, I wanted to use this plate for a sympathy card. Specifically one that acknowledges the hole left in our lives when someone we love passes.

I could have used the hexagon die included with the set to create the hole. But I felt that it was too neat. Grief isn’t neat. So I cut out by hand instead.

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The foil is Satin Peach, which is only available in the Pastel Satin Variety Pack, as far as I know. I foiled the background plate on Hammermill. Then I foiled the negative with my Pinkfresh Studio Solid Foil Plate also on Hammermill.

Cutting

I die cut two tiles from the negative. For the positive tile, I channeled my inner Kristina Werner and carefully cut it with a small box cutter and a ruler. The trick is to cut gently numerous times, as I’ve learned from watching many of Kristina’s videos.

A handmade greeting card sits on a wooden surface surrounded by crafting materials. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card. The card is standing on crafting supplies including the press plate used to create it. Autumn leaves in warm orange and yellow hues lie behind it. All items are arranged on a dark wood grain background.
A closeup of a handmade greeting card. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card.
A handmade greeting card sits on a wooden surface surrounded by crafting materials. The card features a soft peach and white patterned background with various decorative elements including dots, crosses, and lined patterns. It is matted in black. In the center two hexagonal tiles flank a black hexagonal void. The void is bridged by the greeting "With Sympathy." Small rhinestone embellishments are scattered across the card. The card is lying on top of foiled cardstock. The photo was taken from the bottom left corner of the card. All items are arranged on a dark wood grain background.

Assembly

I glued a piece of black cardstock to the front of my card base. Then I cut down the positive-foiled background to 4″ by 5 ¼” and stacked two pieces of Accent Opaque 100 lbs behind it. Obviously I had to cut out a piece from the center, to allow for the reveal. Once the glue had set up, I centered the panel on the card front.

I popped up my two negative-foiled tiles on thin foam tape and placed them on either side of the missing tile. Then I used a sentiment from my mug of sentiments to bridge the gap between the two “main characters.” The sentiment is from the You Are Everything Sentiments Press Plate & Die Set. It’s also foiled with Satin Peach Glimmer Foil.

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