Poppies Sympathy

My family had an unexpected death this past week and so I needed to create a sympathy card for family. He was a good and simple man. He loved his wife and daughters and was always one to make others laugh. He will be missed terribly. With that in mind I set to creating a card for them with poppies. These are beautiful flowers that have several meanings with one of them being remembrance.

The card it self is a simple three layer card: base is vanilla then kraft and then vanilla again. For the top layer I used PTI's Botanical Silhouettes and stamped the leaves in green with the poppies in red while the sentiment is in kraft. I then took some colored pencils to the flowers to help add a little depth. Once everything was stamped/colored I used the Linen plate from PTI to emboss the whole layer. Creating these cards aren't hard for me though. Sad yes, hard not as much. It's finding the words for the inside that cause me problems because really what can one say...