Silver Wedding Anniversary

Today is the Silver Wedding Anniversary of my brother Chris (yes another Chris!!) and wife Jane.

I wanted a special card for them and this is what I came up with.

Colour combo of Silver and White.

I computer generated the greeting on the base card.

For the background I used what is fast becoming my favourite - Creative Elements,

stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Silver EP.

Matted this onto a rectangle of   Silver card (non SU)

I heat embossed in silver an  Apothecary Art image for the centre label, hand cut round this.

and then matted onto a silver frame cut with the Framelits Label Collection Die.

 I added a computer generated name plate for the centre.

Clean and Simple, but classy methinks.

Happy Silver Wedding Anniversary Chris and Jane - may you enjoy many more!!

xxx

First Christmas card this year!!

Lots of people are posting Christmas cards on their blogs, so I thought maybe

I should make a start on mine too!! Chris and I made this one together yesterday

afternoon and I am really pleased with it.  I wanted to try a diorama card

and my SU sister Sally Jo has put a tutorial on how to do this -you can find it here.

Front view

Arty farty angle showing how card is folded

I used 1/2 a sheet of A4 card in Cherry Cobbler.
Used the Framelits dies to cut the aperture in the front,
 and then cut a Whisper White  frame for the centre back..
Stamped the Christmas trees on this, then stamped and cut out the penguins after colouring in.
(Christmas trees and penguins from the Polar Party stamp-set)
A fine line of white glue applied around the aperture and glitter on top of this.
Merry Christmas sentiment from petite Pairs stampset.
And voila - there you have it -  my first Christmas card.
The Wednesday ladies made this last night and loved it.
I am hoping that the Thursday ladies will love it too!

Bright Blossoms

Here is one of the swaps that I received  at our Quarterly Training Day in Pudsey the other Saturday.
It features 4 items from the Summer Mini - the Bright Blossoms stamp-set, the Labels Collection Framelits Dies, Bakers Twine and theTextured Impressions Embossing Folders - Adorning Accents.
This swap was made by Ciara Jennings, but she didn't put her blog details on the reverse - however - a big thank you Ciara for this inspiration.