Wedding Anniversary

Today my hubby and I are celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary. I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by - I hope hubby thinks the same thing too lol! Anyway this is the card I made for him. I kept it plain and simple as he seems to prefer that kind of style.


Stamp (Hobby Art)- Village Church

A couple of months ago I spotted the church stamp in a shop and I just had to buy it. It reminded me so much of the local church at home where we were married - very similar looking and out in the middle of the countryside surrounded by fields and trees. We had the most fabulous day and it was so sunny and warm, just like it is today.

The image is coloured with watercolour pencils and I just added some thread and a couple of Hero Arts heart accents. A bit of stitching on the background and I was finished - these CAS cards are done in no time!



Recently I seem to be up to my eyes in stuff so I hope to catch up with visiting blogs over the weekend. Have a great weekend everyone!

PaperPlay Challenge - Your Number's Up

It’s Thursday so it’s time for a new challenge at PaperPlay. The challenge this week is titled “Your Number’s Up”. So you can make a card for any occasion as long as a number features prominently on it. The prize this week is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp! and the winner will receive a $15 voucher for the store. I hope you’ll join in!

I wanted to make a 25th wedding anniversary card and decided to use the opportunity to go all out with silver and sparkle (hard to tell with photos taken on a dull day)!



Stamps (Hero Arts):- Flourish Background, Heart Winged Butterfly

The background is a piece of vellum clear embossed with the Flourish Background. I printed the numbers (from a free template on the internet) onto white card, cut them out and embossed with stardust embossing powder. I repeated the embossing process twice more.



I love the Heart Winged Butterfly stamp from Hero Arts and thought it would be nice to use on an anniversary card. The butterflies are also embossed with stardust embossing powder. One layer is embossed on white card and the other is on a piece of silk fabric. To finish I added some machine stitching and trails of silver gems with a white pearl heart (Hero Arts) at the base of each one.



I’m looking forward to seeing your creations!

Trinh told me about the monochromatic challenge at the CARDS blog so I've submitted this card. Thanks Trinh for yet again alerting me to a challenge!