Simple Sympathy Card

It's Thursday--and what a week it has been.  A week ago I attended a funeral for a close friend and wanted to make a card to send to his mother to just let her know I was praying for her.  As I started to design the card I found this great pattern paper in my very large stash.  DCWV has a stack called Serenity is very nice and has a lot of masculine patterns and colorations.  I thought it was the perfect mix of soft with the flowers and the masculine with the neutral colors.

The base of the card is cream card stock, layered with a mint green stock that I ran through the cuttlebug using the leaves folder.  I attached the chocolate satin ribbon before I layered the pattern paper to the card.

I did ink the edges of the mint green to give it a little definition.

The sentiment is a two parter; one for the outside one for the inside.  I used the Card Chatter-Sympathy (D1476) which is available in the just released Close To My Heart idea book.  I used the same layer pattern from the card base and stamped the sentiment in chocolate ink on white card stock.

Here is the inside and second half of the sentiment.  I always have a hard time with sympathy cards but find that if I keep it simple my results are always good.

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