Sympathy Bloom

 

This is my second card for the challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Beautiful Blooms

My sister-in-law recently lost her father, so I made a card for her and also for her mother. 

 

Spanish Sympathy

 

My sister-in-law is from Columbia, and her mother is very sweet and does not speak English. She recently lost her husband of 69 years, and my husband and I wanted to send her a special card. I speak very little Spanish, and have only one stamp set in Spanish for party invitations, so I looked up translator and printed a sentiment from my computer, 'With our deepest sympathy'. I would normally create a sympathy card with a butterfly or dragonfly, but wasn't sure if either was appropriate for someone from Columbia. I was excited to see the challenge from Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is for 'Beautiful Blooms'.

 

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Heartfelt

Unfortunately I've had to make a couple of sympathy cards lately.  My cousin passed away recently and she lived near the ocean, so I'm hoping this card will let her husband know we're thinking of him.

Because I needed to put it in the mail, I wanted to make a one layer card with no embellishments, which works well for a masculine card as well.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-One Layer

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Healing Wings-Skipping Stones Design

Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop Challenge - Sketch Challenge #035
Picture Perfect Creations PPC Color Challenge #23 - Winter White, Basic Grey, Daffodil

I love the sentiment of this Skipping Stones Design set, Healing Wings, it feels so comforting to me and is perfect for a sympathy card.

Memories

I spent most of my craft time this weekend helping a friend put together a few layouts for a Memory Album she's creating for her son who passed away recently. She is extremely talented at cross-stitching, but has never done paper crafting of any kind. I'm still relatively new at scrapbooking also, but I think we came up with a few nice pages. This is a sympathy card I had done for her because he loved fishing so much...I'm a little disappointed in how the picture turned out, the card really looked so much better, not so faded looking, hard to see the colors... background is Mellow Moss, a strip of black with hemp twine and the sentiment matted with Not Quite Navy.