Anniversaries

Greetings all, I have to apologise once again for being so quite and not updating my blog as I should be but I am working on a few projects all at once and it does not leave me with much free time to be updating my blog. However, I have 5 different people having Anniversaries this month and for the first time ever I have decided to take the easy way out and make 5 of the same card just changing colours. Only because I do not have enough free time from the other projects to be trying to think up and make 5 different cards for each person plus all the Birthdays as well.

Anyway, I decided on this card:

There is only 4 cards in the picture but I decided to do 2 blue ones but only photographed one of them.

Very plain but I like the end result. The base is white cardstock and I have stamped each flower in its colour and cut out only the flower and then restamped the entire image in green and cut out only the leaves. A few mini rhinestones in the center and some faux stitching complete the card. The yellow one has stitching around the edge but it is difficult to see in the photo.

Hope I have inspired somebody today and please visit again

Valerie

Anniversary card

Greetings, a dear friend of mine and her husband celebrate their wedding anniversary this Saturday and I have made them a very simple and clean card.

The background paper is from the My Minds Eye Dolled  up paper collection. It looks like teal coloured wooden floor boards and I really liked the look of this paper. Cut out  the circle from a Couture Creations doily die. The paper is double sided and the flag shaped sentiment is the other side of the paper. Some folds and a pink brad complete the sentiment tag. The stamp set is from Grace Taylor Wedding and it says "Love is the beauty of the soul". Added a pink and blue heart  with a piece of Bakers twine and pink rhinestone. White stitching complete the card. I have elevated the teal back ground paper to give it more dimension.

I hope that you enjoyed looking at my creation and that it has possible inspired someone today

Thank you for looking and please come back soon

Valerie

Anniversary

Greetings to all. Tomorrow is my 19th Wedding Anniversary and I am so blessed to have the wonderful husband I have. We met in 1988 a few weeks before my 16th Birthday and have been together ever since. Now no marriage is perfect but when I look back on all those years its the happy times that stand out far more than the hard tough times. Immigrating to another country is really hard emotionally and physically but I think the stress that it puts on relationships is probable the hardest to recover from and that is proved with the divorce rates of immigrants. However, for my husband and myself, we both feel that this has brought us even closer than before, which makes us extremely blessed. But to get back to my anniversary, I make my husband a card every year for our anniversary and this year I have decided not to go the traditional wedding themed cards but to have a little bit of fun with my Spectrum Noir markers. At this stage I only have 7 of the 12 sets of 6 markers. I have bought the other 5 sets and a set of the 24 light markers in the UK which my friend Debbie will be bringing back for me. This restricts me with colours but I am still having so much fun playing around with it. My colouring is no where near good but I am really happy with the results so far. Practice makes perfect and thats exactly what I will keep doing!!

Thank you for looking

Egg Shell Technique

One of the latest "Weekly Inklings" at Splitcoaststampers was a mosiac technique using egg shells. Yes you read right - EGG SHELLS. Now its quite a long drawn out technique so its not something that you will be able to use if you need a quick card.

Follow the link below to see the tutorial:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/eggshellmosaicbackground/

So I have been looking for an excuse to try out this technique but only have brown alcohol ink so had to go brown on this one. I also decided to try it and if I liked the outcome would use it on a card. Well not absolutely blown away with my attempt but happy enough to use on a project. I can see the possibilities if you had more colours to work with. Stained glass windows, water if using blues and greens and so many others!!

But to get back to the project - its my in-laws anniversary in 3 weeks time and I have used it on a card for them. Got to get it in the post to South Africa:

The daisies on the card are also handmade and if you want the tutorial on how to make these go to:

http://www.stampingwithloll.com/p/tutorials.html

See ya!!