Sympathy Cards

Unfortunately I had cause to make a sympathy card up recently.

Personally, I prefer to keep such cards fairly plain and simple. I feel the focus should really be on the sentiment and the recipient, rather than a chance to show off some awesome card making technique.

I made them using my silhouette portrait:

• The flourish is from the silhouette store here
• The font is called caneletter script

I had initially cut the white elements to place on the blue card but I ended up preferring (and sending) the white card with the blue paper behind to highlight the negative space. I have to admit to frugal tendencies - I'm always looking for a chance to use both the positive and negative space from cuts, but in this case I really do think both cards work really well in their own right..