Wedding Anniversary Card

Afternoon Everyone

It's our wedding anniversary today - our 18th to be exact - and this is the card I made for my husband.

I used the topper because it would remind him of our dancing days together. Apart from being the EM, head handyman, under gardener, and general all round good guy, my dear husband is an accomplished dancer with certificates and medals for modern ballroom and Latin American dancing. Time and tide, or more accurately, arthritis has taken it's toll so, sadly, we no longer trip the light fantastic but it's nice to remember our nimbler days with this card :)

I've used this Sketch #72 from Sketch N Stash for the design and I rooted around in my stash for all the materials. The glittery background was created by covering blue paper with self-adhesive glitter film - a NBUS (see abbreviations on right) bought last year after spotting it on a card made by our snippet queen, Di ... that lady sure is responsible for an awful lot of my stash mountain :)

I've edged the topper with glitter glue and it's been dotted over the dancer's dress - honestly, there's more spangles on this card than you'll see on Strictly Come Dancing :)

I'm submitting this card to Challenge #143 at Sketch 'n' Stash - Choose a Past Sketch - I chose sketch #72

No big celebration today ... we had a fabulous day out on Thursday instead - but we did pop out at lunchtime for a Costa coffee and toastie. Never let it be said that we don't know how to live the high life!

Hope you have had a good day too.

Happy Crafting,

Materials used: one 8x8 square white card base; patterned papers - stripe and embellishments from Polka Doodles Wonderland (free with Scrapbooking Magazine), the dark pink one is from BoBunny's Ambrosia collection, the dark blue one had no details on it; self-adhesive clear glitter film; Hunkydory Decoupage Book for topper; Stickles Crystal glitter glue; Ranger's Tim Holtz Black Soot distress ink; navy blue printed ribbon; peel-off greeting

Sunday Snippets ... and yet more hearts

Morning Folks

And a happy Sunday to you all too!

Out of the pile of hearts I cut recently comes another card ... it's just a phase I'm going through :) ... made especially for Di's Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 134 today.

And it is made entirely from snippets and leftovers - except the iridescent gem. I have a pack of these, bought because they are so beautiful but, in truth, because they are brown, I rarely find an opportunity to use them. I'm sure we all have items like that in our stash - it can't just be me!

I can't claim the design to be entirely mine ... I'm sure I've seen something somewhere that gave me the idea. I just can't remember where. Here's how I made my version.

Firstly, I shaped a card measuring 4½" square out of a scrap of cream cardstock, creating a tent style card base.

The next step was to layer a piece of red textured card on to a larger piece of Kraft (measure to fit across the card but leave a margin top and bottom.

I then wrapped the seam binding around it and tied it off with a knot. The seam binding was a happy find in the box of ribbon scraps. It was a bit leftover from another project made many moons ago ... it was white to begin with but was dyed using distress inks in a variety of colours that just seemed perfect for this card.

Once that was done the strip of black punched edging - another item left from a previous project (maybe I should start throwing bits like this away!!!) - was fixed to the bottom edge of these layers.

Next, came the hearts - the white embossed one came from that mammoth die-cutting session and the small ones were punched out in Kraft, brown and black to create the design.

The gem was then added as a final touch.

Be warned, I still have a box full of hearts left yet. So, at the risk of boring you to tears, there's definitely going to be more heart cards in the weeks to come as I think of ways to use them up.

In the meantime, because it's a damp and dull day - though incredibly warm and muggy - I'm going to attack the ironing basket then, once that's done, I'm going to devote some time in the craft room ... putting a scrap page together. I have a lovely photo of my two little great-grandchildren that is crying out to be scrapped :)

Thanks for popping in. I hope you all have a wonderful day whatever you are doing.

Happy Crafting,

Materials used: scraps of cream card (the base), Kraft card; red textured card (Papermania) and snippets of black, white, brown card (Papermill Direct); length of white seam binding (Wild Orchid Crafts) coloured with Ranger's Tim Holtz distress inks in a variety of colours; one iridescent gem. Tools: X-Cut Homespun Heart die; Woodware heart punches in two small sizes

CHNC Challenge 185 - the five minute glam card

Evening Everyone

Hope this finds you fine, especially those of you in the south of the country who have been suffering the lightening storms - I hope you've escaped the damage that's been reported on the news today. We expected rain around 2pm this afternoon but so far it's stayed dry and very warm. I even had to get out and water the garden ... that felt silly but after yesterday's sunshine and lack of rain everything was starting to look parched.

We weren't around yesterday ... spent a lovely day with friends instead ... so have been catching up, that is as much as is humanly possible, with what has been going on in blogland today. So, with so little time, and keen to join in with Hazel's CHNC Challenge 185 this week, I took a few minutes out to make this super quick card.

The topper is another recycled Christmas card from last year. It already had lots of glitter on it but I've added a touch of gold and red glitter for a bit more of that glam Hazel is looking for. To make the card I simply trimmed the topper down, attached the very last snippet of that red satin ribbon, printed with gold trees, to the top left corner and added a gold glitter star. 

Not easy to photograph but I'm hoping you can spot Rudolph's red nose - Xmas Red Stickles - and that you can see how glittery the star is. 

And it really was as quick as that! 

Other challenges I'm submitting the card to:

Hazel's other challenge - CHNC challenge extra for July mid-month

and Di's challenge, of course, Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 133 - the ribbon was just a snippet

Hoping to spend more time crafting tomorrow, probably to a soundtrack of thunder and lightening so may be offline for a time ... I switch everything off during a storm.

Take care and happy crafting,

Materials used: a square Kraft card base; the recycled topper; red/gold printed satin ribbon; Studio Calico glittered star; Xmas Red Stickles