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I hope that you have all had a restful and peaceful Easter time.

I have had a really lovely break and found time to make lots of cards, some of which I'll be sharing with you here, and some of which will go directly onto Cardmaking-Companion.

Unfortunately over the Easter period my friend's Auntie died. She approached me at Church and asked could I make her a sympathy card.

Now thankfully  I have not had to  make that many Sympathy Cards so I sat and thought which was the best way to approach this. As I did not know if the deceased or her family were religious, or not, I did not want to make an overly religious card, neither did I want to produce a card which was too upbeat.

I popped to a local craft shop and found these beautiful black, white and grey (achromatic) decoupage flowers. The sheets did not have the manufacturer's name on them. They are all pre die cut so you just have to pop them out and then decoupage them using 3D double sided sticky foam pads.

As you can see I made 3 different versions so my friend could choose which she liked the best but when she saw them she bought all 3 - saying that at her age it is a sad fact that she will no doubt need to use the other 2 before the year is out.

My personal favourite is the single rose on the right. I think that this is simple but has a classic feel to it.

Susan

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