Ruby Wedding Anniversary

Hi

A simple card to share today which I made for my parents' Ruby Wedding Anniversary. They've never been big on the celebrating thing and they were desperate to avoid a party, so they went off on a mini cruise around Scotland, enjoying their fair share of whisky!  

I really struggled with coming up with a card design which was 'them' and then I stumbled across a video by Jennifer McGuire on youtube which I'd missed which gave me all sorts of ideas and this is what I came up with:

Up to four layers of cardstock on each heart , topped with glossy accents and finished with two sizes of pearls. 

The video I mentioned can be found here

Unfortunately I did the glossy accents and then had to run straight out the door to a meeting so there are some air bubbles but the overall effect wasn't spoilt. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafting with Dragonflies - Special Occasions

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Wedding and Anniversary

A Perfect Time To Craft -  Anything Goes

Until next time, happy crafting! 

Crafty Catz DT - Oh my, teddies!

 

Good Morning!

 

What a week! School groups, public tours, moving the Stanbrook Abbey archives, 2 training courses and then choir, booking my holiday (it's another cruise! yay!) and finishing off my costume for the Venice Carnival. - I'm exhausted and for my sins I'm spending all day tomorrow singing......

 

But anyway, onto this weeks challenge at Crafty Catz . Our challenge this week has been set by Nick who would like to see Teddies on your creations on this week. We are sponsored this week by Crafty Sentiments who are offering our lucky winners 3 digi images of their choice

 

 

Sorry about the photos this week - the light levels have been awful!  but anyhoo. The image is called couples and is coloured with promarkers in caramel, cinnamon, henna, spice, terracotta, burnt orange, pumpkin, meadow green, poppy, cool grey 1 and lime green

 

I used papers from Kaisercraft Lush Collection, ribbon from Docrafts simply floral ribbon pack, inked up an x-cut doily with versamagic in sahara sand and thatched straw and finished it with a memory box diecut betterfly and gems from stash.

 

So there we go. I hope you like it and do swing by the blog to see everyone else's gorgeous creations. Until next time though, happy crafting!