bereavement card

[kiwibella]

what would you put on a bereavement card? I thought about making one for a colleague who lost her father on Christmas Eve (!!!) but I don't want it to be too "cheery" IUKWIM. Thanks for your ideas

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Dingle made a nice sympathy card IIRC...cala lilly on a mulberry background...simple wording..looked very nice...simple but not understated.

hi5 does one and sells it to the hospice by the 100

here is the topper part she does it on a long tall card

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ooh, I got some of those skeleton leaves in my Christmas set! Thanks for your ideas ladies. I think I will mull on it for a couple of days.

If it's for a religious person, I often make a mini envelope from vellum (usually a gold and terracotta horticultural one I get from craftsulove), place a small wire cross embellishment in the envelope and then mount onto a terracotta or old gold paper, again onto a sqaure card (cream) then decorate with dark yellow dried floweres. It goes down well. I have substituted the cross with a poem when a child has been lost (usually in our family tho as a bit personal, but you can put twinkle Twinkle little star in).

Also am making one at mo for a card swap- cream card, piece of white mulberry cut so about a centimetre in all round, large white flower mounted on left hand side, small white flowers around the mulberry edges. Basic, but all white / cream is effective.