Sympathy Card

Sympathy cards are always difficult to make and sometimes it's challenging to find the right words too. I made this card for a dear friend and decided to keep it quite simple. For our blog challenge at Daisy Chains this month our theme is CAS - clean and simple.

I have decided to use this card as my DT project for our blog challenge.

For the card base, I used ivory centura pearl cardstock with my Tattered Lace Precious Nested Book die set from the Loving Memories collection.

Run the larger die twice through your die cut machine to get the front and back part of your book using a tacky pva glue or red liner tape along the inner spine to create your card/book.

The largest die measures 13.2cm  x  18.7 cm which makes a nice neat card.

I love the attention to detail on this die set. It is such a delicate collection. I also used the gilded cross die in the collection on some Hunkydory rainbow mirri card. This cross die does actually come with its own matching charisma paper which you can download for free direct from the Tattered Lace website in their downloads section.

Inside I used white printable vellum for the insert with a personalised verse.

Also using the smaller cross in the die set and a chain die from another Tattered Lace set that I had, I created a little crucifix to embellish inside.

As this card was going in the post, I didn't want it to get crushed so made matching gift box.

My card to let my friend know I was thinking of her at a difficult time.

Have a look at the inspiration from the rest of the design team and what our crafters have been making for our blog challenge this month.

Happy Crafting
Michelle
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Sympathy Card

 Today's share is a sympathy card made using the Tattered Lace Gilded Cross die. as a central focus on the card.

Some cards can be a challenge to make as you can't always find the correct materials for the occasion and I find sympathy cards are one of them.

I wanted to keep this card quite simple and have used the following to make this card:-

• A4 centura pearl white cardstock
• Tattered Lace Gilded Cross die
• Tattered Lace Moroccan Trellis die
• Hunkydory rainbow mirri card
• Hunkydory matt silver adorable scorable card (for the cross)
• A small piece of green/white card for the flowers on the die
• stamped sentiment.
• White crushed satin ribbon
• Few pearls to decorate

The gilded cross die has been decoupaged for dimension as it is the central focus on the card and I have die cut the flower and leaves to layer over the top of the die for the white lilies.

Inside my card, I have used a  personalised verse.  It's always difficult to know what to say in a sympathy card and  I often don't like the verses very much that are in cards so prefer to make my own.

Happy Crafting.