Pearl Anniversary Card

This post is of a Pearl Wedding card for a friend's husband, my instructions were, no pearls and not sloppy!! It was a hard card to make because I 'm not very good at making cards for men, as I like playing with flowers and lacey girly bits. This is what I have come up with, I used Centura Pearl card and spellbinders:

 

I love the effect of the 4 corners making up the square for the background, I used a very pale duck egg blue card behind it together with a silver mat, then stacked up 3 mats using labels dies to take the peeloff sentiment. I also added a tag and some diecut champagne flutes ... inside i just wrote the words 'Happy Pearl wedding anniversary' and 'Thirty Years together'

 

Just a short post today but I'll be back tomorrow with a Fussy & Fancy post for a new blog challenge, hope you'll like it. Right off to do some more crafting with some goodies that the Postie brought this morning....Bye Annie xxx

 

PS Phew!! Lady has now seen the card and was very pleased with it....a little of bit extra cash for a local charity very close to my heart it is  'Gwynedd Hospice at Home' which helps terminally ill patients to stay in their own homes.

Fussy & fancy Friday Challenge #85

Well here it is at last my first card as part of the Fussy & Fancy DT I was relieved when I found out the subject was Spring Days, after some thought I was in the garden and realised that all the new Spring flowers, Daffs, crocuses and primroses were all shades of yellow and purple so that was my inspiration. I always make an Easter card for my mum in law who is 92 and as her eyesight is poor I like to make 'touchy feely' cards for her, plenty of textures and strong colours ...so this is my card for You and Her....

I began with the centrpiece, forming an oval on white card with Heartfelt Creations Scalloped Posy die, as this is semicircular I cut it twice leaving a gap in the middle where the ribbon band was to go, I backed it with lemon pearlised card. Then I mounted this on a purple mat cut with another die in the same set, this in turn was put onto a white mat which I had embossed with  spellbinders Garden Lattice M-bossibilities folder, a piece of white silky crush ribbon was wrapped around the centre.
The flowers were made using various spellbinders dies apart from the daffodil which is a Marie Curie charity flower I recycled.
I  tried various ways of putting the sentiment on and then found this Easter  ribbon in my stash, the finishing touch was the little 3D butterfly made from Fantasy film. I am adding a couple of closeups of the flowers & butterflies....

Hope you like it and I look forward to seeing your creations for this challenge ...
Bye for now ...Annie xxx

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