Golden Wedding Wishes - but a bit late!

A really special blogger friend just celebrated 50 years of marriage - well done to both you and your lovely hubby. HUGE congratulations! This lady is often my most truthful and yet funniest critic, we've been lucky enough to meet up and she was absolutely what I would have expected - in the best way possible!

I've kept her name anon. (as she is quite a private person) - otherwise I'd be up there tooting about it from the rooftop! How lovely to share in their special celebrations with this card - photographed slightly from the side to stop the glare:

I used:

- 5.5" x 4.25" off white card blank, side opening

- slightly smaller layer of gold mirri card

- then a smaller again layer of Centura white pearl card (which is off white in fact, hence the card blank not being bright white) embossed using an X-Cuts 'Polka Hearts' embossing folder. To be fair, I trimmed the embossed layer to exactly where I wanted it after doing the embossing, so the hearts lined up and was just so lucky that it was as I wanted so I didn't need to trim the gold layer or the card blank down - which I often do, to make sure things are symmetrical! OCD - or even 'CDO' strikes again!

- then I dug into my precious X-Cut snippets of self adhesive gold paper and die cut two Marianne hearts using the 'LR0129' set of dies - possibly one of the first set of dies I ever bought and so rarely used (bad me as it's gorgeous!)

- next die cut the numbers 5 and 0 from a snippet of the same adhesive paper using a Memory Box 'Classic Numbers' set of dies

- and finally, with yet another snippet of X-Cut self adhesive gold paper, die cut the sentiment 'celebrate' - by Paper Smooches from their 'Birthday Words' set

- then it was just a matter of placing everything where I'd planned it to go. Apart from one minor detail - do NOT use fairly thin adhesive plain foil on an embossed background! But, with the help of careful positioning and also some glue so I didn't need to press down too firmly - we got there in the end! Just please don't pick at it :)

I seem to have a real rush on right now, needing to make special cards. It's good as it focuses the mind immensely!

BUT, Dumbo here got the date totally wrong. The card was made, written and all ready to post when I spotted that I was going to be almost a week late! Instead of Wednesday 17th, the big day was Friday 12th April.   

So it's a belated Happy Anniversary - K & C!! xx And a woof from Dudley :)

Golden Wedding card

A little while ago I blogged about making an Acceptance card to a Golden Wedding celebration back here. The big event was on Saturday just gone and this is the card I made:

Having said I really didn't (probably ever) want to tackle another card based around a photo, Len then came up with a black and white Wedding photo of the happy couple - sigh. But, it was going to be unique I guess, so off I went to incorporate it into a card - not an easy task as it was one of those group photos with relatives all huddled together on either side of the bride and groom. I scanned the photo, applied sepia effect then resized it umpteen times so I could use a die to cut just the couple out of the photo. Not only that, the matt photo paper I was using was a devil to work with - one tiny blemish of sticky and that was it, no way could it be removed even using my sticky stuff eraser - it took four attempts to get a perfect result. You can imagine the air was just a tad blue here!

I used:

- 6" x 6" square cream card stock

- gold mirri card for the next layer, topped with another square of cream card stock

- the heart was cut using Memory Box's 'Bingham Heart' die - a lovely gift from ScrappyMo when she was over here. I die cut it first using gold mirri card and then a second time using cream card stock - in a moment of total madness. The little flowers and stars were then snipped one by one from the cream die cut and popped onto the matching flowers etc on the gold die cut - and a few little gold coloured gems were added. By which time my eyes were crossed and my head was thumping from concentrating :(

- the infamous photo was die cut with a Nesties oval and backed with a gold mirri card frame cut using a Nesties beaded oval die before being popped on top of the heart using sticky pads

- the numbers 5 and 0 were die cut from gold mirri card using a Britannia Dies 'Number Set' and added to one corner

- my in-house critic agreed that the other three corners looked a bit bare so I added corners, die cut from gold mirri card using a 'Whimsy Corner Die Set'

And then, the same in-house critic said that a hand made envelope would be a nice touch - as he dodged a flying paper trimmer:

I used:

- 12" x 12" sheet of card from DCWV's 'Preppy Princess' paper stack, made into an envelope using with my trusty Crafter's Companion Enveloper board

- more gold mirri card, die cut with with a Spellbinders flourish label die

- an oval snippet of cream damask card

- initials cut from gold mirri card with a Britannia upper Case alphabet die

- but, none of my dies came with an ampersand  - sigh - so I just added a teeny little 'wedding rings' peel off :)

And the verdict was - they absolutely loved it! Yay, so worth all those hours of work.

This is for the current challenge over at Cuttlebug Mania, which is to use dies, anything goes. I just squeaked in at the very last minute too! There are some fabulous entries already so I'm certainly not holding my breath here.

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