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I hate getting older! UGH...I have more "sympathy" cards to send out than any other card and I am only 44!!! GEESH....what are some good stamp sets to use for sympathy that anyone would care to share? How do I do a search on seeing some "sympathy" cards already done?
I have never felt talented enough to create an elegant enough sympathy card until I found Roses in Winter. Not only is it very appropriate for sympathy cards, it works wonderfully for wedding cards - another one I didn't think I could do either. Awesome for birthdays, too!
Wouldn't trade Roses in Winter for the world. It really is formal enough for any occasion where you want a little touch of elegance to say it right!
I seem to make a lot of sympathy cards, also (and I am your age).
I like to use Spring Garden (pg 134) and Petal Prints (pg 127). My masculine options use either a sand dollar or dragonfly from a 2003 Sell-a-bration set (can't remember the name!).
I think sympathy cards are the BEST reason to make your own greeting cards.
I don't have any in my gallery on SCS. If you want to see a few, e-mail me privately.
To find sympathy cards, go to "gallery" and near the top on right-hand side is a little white rectangle. Type "sympathy" in there and click "go". I just pulled up 26 pages of sympathy. Perhaps there will be some samples in there that will trigger your creativeness.
I bought a retired set off of ebay called Hope for Comfort. It's a hard set to find at a reasonable price. I don't like the set in the current catty. It doesn't sound sincere to me. One verse is so-so, but not for what I've needed it for too many times... death of an infant. I also like to use Petal Prints. Here's one I did with Petal Prints and Wonderful Words 2 before I owned a sympathy set.
Wait till you turn 55. My age. This is Silver Dragon's mom. The older you get the more you get to send. At my age not only do you lose some contempories but your friends parents are also passing and your own. The Simple Sketches on Pg. 80 would work, says thinking of you. Ageless Adornment pg. 136(with cow lily). Page 185 Elegant Greetings has a With Sympathy. Wishing Stamp Up would put a new sympathy set in catalog. I would buy it.
I always felt sympathy card challenged, so I hosted a sympathy card swap! I had a full group, and I got some great ideas! Maybe you could host one, too!
Like someone else said, search the gallery using the word "sympathy." I found a lot of inspiration there.
C
__________________ "We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." Anais Nin
I did one using the Daisy set and used pastel colors. I probably got the idea from here. I think I put "Thinking of you" on the outside and "Keeping you close in thought and prayer" and "With Sympathy" on the inside. I also made the same card but with bright colors but didn't put the "With Sympathy" part on the inside to use if someone is sick or to just send a nice card.
__________________ Sara
Fort Atkinson WI
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I usually use a flower set, like spring garden, but I had a problem when a man at work lost his wife recently. I usually don't like giving men cards with flowers, but I made a very elegant and not-to-girly card with a single blue tulip from Terriffic Tulips layered on Bordering Blue cardstock with a simple saying on the bottom. I made four more the next day in all different colors. Burgundy tulips look nice too.
I usually use flowers for sympathy. As for greetings, that is one thing I am disappointed in SU. They just don't seem to have any good ones. So I often just use a thinking of you stamp.
__________________ Michelle Thomas Craft Well, Wrap Often, Stamp Much!! I FiNallY DiD iT - TAC AnGeL #2645
WOW ladies, you never seem to disappoint me on here! I JUST LOVE THIS PLACE!!!
Now, to actually go make some sympathy cards..... :(
Honestly, there never really is a "good" one
Thanks again Ladies!
Kathy
I've used Heartfelt Thanks for sympathy cards. I stamp some flowers and just use the word "heartfelt" on the front. Very soft and pretty.
__________________ "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." Oscar Wilde Proud to be a member of Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge DT! My BlogMy Gallery
I just bought the set, "Brighter Tomorrow", and my next purchase is going to be, "Ageless Adornment". If you search the gallery, *most* of the sympathy cards use the Lily in the Ageless Adornment set. It's just beautiful!!
I have yet to make any sympathy cards, my husband got back from Iraq just after I got into stamping, so my cards were store bought. I'm 32, I don't see what age has to do with loss.
I have a sympathy stamp in Sincere Salutations, and I'd probably use something from Godspeed (our sympathies have been military related).
If not, I'd use muted flowers, or just a background stamp, with a sentiment stamp.
Versalog.com has good sentiments for inside cards.
I just bought the retired Garden collage just for making sympathy cards. The "gentle thoughts of you" with the bird and butterfly seemed appropriate. I also saw a card recently that used the stipple butterfy. Very elegant.
I've used Botanicals and Lovely as a Tree. The only advice I was ever given is that this should be a time for an "understated" card, and not an opportunity to "showcase" and do something really WOW!
Recently I unfortunately needed to a sympathy card and used the flower from Heartfelt Thanks done in almost amethyst on US white then mounted on crumpled and DTP distressed lovely lilac which were then mounted on mellow moss stamped with filigree BG. I also used the With Sympathy stamp on US white, which wasn't all that great looking...would probably try to do something different with it next time. Sympathy cards are difficult, if you ask me. HTH
I usually use calla lily images, or any elegant floral image (to send to a woman), and, to send to a man, I usually use lighthouse images or seashells. For the loss of a child (yes, that is probably the most heart-breaking sympathy card to try to create, and I've had to do it, to my deep deep sadness), I have used elegant angel images and stars.
Hope that gives some suggestions for ideas . . .
__________________ Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR once upon a time . . . )julieebersole.com"So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka
I've used Botanicals and Lovely as a Tree. The only advice I was ever given is that this should be a time for an "understated" card, and not an opportunity to "showcase" and do something really WOW!
Thanks for mentioning that great point of the "understated" card. I agree, completely.
I cased one from here but now cannot find it! It was the Art of Life leaf with Thinking of You from Sincere Salutations. I have also used the images from All I Have Seen on somber colors.
I have used the retired set Tractor Time several times on sympathy cards for our neighbors, lots of farmers. I once got a thank you back on the card! I was shocked. She said it reminded her of the work her husband loved.
__________________ Cheryl
Stampin' Up! Demonstrator
SCS Member #1254
Lovely as a Tree makes beautiful Sympathy cards. Also the flower in Ageless Adornment (use a little Pearl Ex to give it a dewy look)
Terrific Tulips is also very pretty- especially if you use just one - simple and elegant but not flashy ...
I'm sure whatever you choose will be just lovely and very much appreciated by the receipient...
Sympathy and Get Well cards are the hardest cards for me. But, I'm planning to purchase Terrific Tulips and was looking through the gallery for some good ideas. There are some very nice sympathy cards made with this set. I've made sympathy cards with the Calla Lily from Ageless Adornments, I also think that Lovely as a Tree would be a nice masculine card. I guess like any other card, it could be made with the person in mind. For the family of a hunter Noble Deer would make a nice card for example....
Best Sympathy Stamp Set
Roses in Winter
