First Installment Master's Memorials

This afternoon I began working on my largest single order to date. These are cards for a company that crafts monuments, and they send thank you cards to their patrons. What a thoughtful gesture! The papers I chose for this first set are all in the purple family. Blame it on reading Victorian period romance novels if you like, but for some reason purple is a mourning color to me. I don't plan to make all the cards in this color family, but it is just where I started out.
While I like all the cards fairly well, the bottom left card in this first group is my very favorite. It just really came together just right. (You can click on the image to make it bigger.)

edited to add: Thursday's additions...

Special Order

This set of four cards is a special order--gift for a quiet woman. Finding "calm" papers in my stash was sort of a challenge. :) These are older Basic Gray papers, and in my opinion, one can never go wrong with Basic Gray.
Here are the four together. Each unique, but obviously a set since they have the same papers.
The "lace" edge on the paper insert is made with an edge punch. Such an ingenious design, that! The flower is layered two paper flowers atop a crochet flower, adhered with a fuzzy corduroy covered brad.
This big flower was one of a set I used years ago on some other project. It had a little yellow gingham ribbon on the button, but I removed it and adhered a piece of the green to match the cross piece. It really changed the look of the whole design!
I was wishing I had thought to use the lace edge border on this card, but it might have detracted from the fun paper flowers. I do love flowers!
This is the last card. I used the lace border on here, although had I inked the edge like I did on the other card, you might notice it more. These flowers are some of my favorite white ones. I have had a lot of fun dressing them up with different centers. Here I chose a green paper flower and blue brads.
This is how I package sets--envelopes tucked inside the cards with the addition of one of my little seals for each card, then tied with a ribbon. The boxes each hold four cards with thick embellishments or six flat cards. Really, though, have I ever made a flat card??