Diamond Wedding Anniversary Card

Afternoon all! it's a miserable day here in the Midlands, but that's ok as I'm busy doing 101 things for my grandparent's diamond wedding anniversary celebration on Sunday - including, finally making their card! (ooops, bit late!) their anniversary is actually on thursday so I really did need to get my act together and to be fair, it's not entirely my fault. I ordered this stamp ages ago and there's been a real headache getting it thanks to Royal Mail.... but anyway, here it is!

The stamp is Penny Black's Fantasy tree - which I stamped up in black and scanned into my computer as I really wanted this silvery/grey colour and I don't have that in an ink pad. I tried it in silver and it looked awful. The colour has been altered in photoshop and it did a weird thing with some of the circles and changed their shape - lesson learned - but the inkpad! but never mind, I think it still looks ok.  The sentiment is computer generated and all the gems are from stash. The butterflies are from my MS punch.

I think it's worked really well and it's certainly more original then any of the designs i've seen to buy- diamond anniversary cards are few and far between and bland when they are in shops!

I'm entering this card into Creative Inspirations - no flowers added and also into Allsorts, who have their second week of free and easy.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting