Sympathy Cards

This past Saturday was a difficult day for our family as we suffered not one, but two deaths in the family just hours apart from each other. 

 

If you're like me sympathy cards are always the hardest cards to make and definitely not something I keep on hand.  As I sat down to create these two I was even surprised to find that for the 100+ stamp sets I have only one had phrases that were sympathy in nature - Simply Said by Craftin Desert Divas.

 

My first card, the Sunset Card, is from My Scrap Chic.  I love the simplistic beauty and peacefulness that this card brings.  To add to it I used a couple of different embossing folders from my stash and then finished it off by using purple twilight colored skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

 

 

The second card is a Lori Whitlock Card Flower Kit from the Silhouette Design Store.  This one you'd think would be easy to put together but I was back and forth so many times trying to decide what papers I wanted to use.  In the end I chose several papers from the SEI New Day and Desert Springs collections.   On this one I decided to use an orange skittle to help the center of the flower pop.

 

And now I'm not even sure how to end my post.  I think I've re-written it about 4 or 5 times now.  So I'll just end it by saying thanks for stopping by.....

Sparrow Sympathy Card

One of my friends just lost her husband to cancer this week and while trying to decide what I wanted to do for a sympathy card I came across the saying, "His eye is on the sparrow" along with a picture of a sparrow in a hand.  Of course that got me going and thus this card was born.

I used A Child's Year for the hand and Home Decor for the bird.

I love using this hand for things but I've really got to figure out how to make it look more dimensional and not so 'flat'.

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are always the most difficult cards to make.  However, I have another simple card to share with you today.

For this one I used Accent Essentials for the scalloped and regular ovals and Wild Cards for the sentiment.  The background was embossed using the Cuttlebug script folder.

Sympathy Card

This is a re-creation of a card that I made a year or so ago.  Not that I was in need of a sympathy card but I realized that I didn't have any completed and thought it would be a good idea to have one or two done.  Especially since I'm considering signing up for our local Oktoberfest next month.

For this card I used:

Graphically Speaking for the sign and the butterfly

Zooballoo for the grass

The inside sentiment says, "The memory becomes a treasure. Treasure the memories and let them lift you up."

Sympathy & Butterflies

I needed a sympathy card for a co-worker this week and as I tried to decide what I was going to do for the layout I came across Okie's card challenge on the Cricut boards. This week she provided three different sketches and this card was inspired from her third sketch. I've never participated in one of the challenges but this one was fun and came just when I needed that nudge.

For this card I used Tags, Bags Boxes and More, Home Decor, and Accent Essentials.

Sympathy Cards

Tonight my goal was to create a couple of sympathy cards. Something no one really ever wants to do. With that in mind I opened the document where I store various card sentiments I like and randomly selected two of them.

The first card says: When someone you love becomes a memory...The memory becomes a treasure. Treasure the memories and let them lift you up.

Thus this particular card was created using the memory lane sign from Graphically Speaking. However, I also wanted something that is representative of peace/comfort and so I added the butterfly from Happily Ever After.

The second card says: May God's love heal your sorrow and may His peace replace your heartache with warm and loving memories.

For this card I chose to use the tree from Happily Ever After since it reminds me of one of those oriental type trees with the flowers (sorry - I don't remember what they are called). Again I wanted something that represented peace/comfort and for this one I chose the bird from Indie Art (which is pop dotted for dimension) so that it would create an effect of serenly gliding in amongst the flowers on the tree.