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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Happy Anniversary

Hello it has been a couple of days since I last posted a card but like many households we have been getting ready for the start of school.  I made this card for two very special family members who are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary in the next couple of days. You will probably agree its a  massive achievement to reach such a milestone.

I loved making this card I never know where a card is going to take me, I have a rough idea with the main image but until I start playing around with colour schemes and papers, I go with the flow until I come across something I like which can be very time consuming at times. For the 65th wedding anniversary it colour is blue sapphire I could not find the right shade of blue I was looking for but I settled on this deep blue paper for parts of the church along with some oyster pearl card, which has a lovely shimmer to it although its hard to see from the photo. The church image has been embossed using a Glitter Girls embossing board called "Gifted" which is a lovely board to use. The only problem was the Oyster card stock was a little on the heavy side and found it hard to fill the channels in the board, but I loved the out come. I used the "Glitter & Glitz" art deco wedding CD Rom by Debbie Moore which I feel works beautifully with the embossing board. After I had glued it all together I set about looking for some papers for the background and came across some high quality paper with blue flowers and lace from my crafty stash of card and papers. I cut the paper to size and glued it to 6 x 8 scalloped card. To finish the card I carefully made a cross with 6 light blue "Basics Rhinestones" by Kaisercraft and found a happy anniversary topper from my stash of  crafty bits and bobs.  I hope you all enjoy this card as much as I have enjoyed making it.