An Anniversary Card Featuring Pink Fresh Studios Hanging Floral

I just had to color using my Pink Fresh Studios Hanging Florals stamp and die set.  It's such a beautiful image and easy to color.  Plus, my parents anniversary just begged for a card and this is what I ended up with. 

I'll share the card I made for my husband a little later, but today is my 26th wedding anniversary as well.  What a great day to link this card up with Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge Wedding/Anniversary

Young Love - Celebrating 72 Years of Marriage

I am so very blessed to have both my grandparents alive today.  They are celebrating 72 years of wedded bliss.  This is no small feat as both of them will tell you that marriage is HARD!  Still, they are a testament to perseverance, patience and forgiveness along with love, dedication and faithfulness.  When I saw the Penny Black Young Love stamp I knew I found their wedding anniversary card.

I colored the card using my colored pencils (Crayola - nothing special here) and used Gamsol to blend the colors together and make a finished look.

Some Heartfelt Creations die cut Vintage Floret/Classic Rose flowers shaped and filled with pink prills to adorn the side and dress up the image adds a nice finish.  The sentiment is a very old stamp, but perfectly sized for this card.

On the inside - a sentiment that speaks to their love...

I colored this image first - my grandma loves navy blue.  I felt that the change in hat color (along with a few other improvements) in my second attempt created a bit nicer finish so I ultimately went with that one.  However, this image was nice enough to make it into a similar card that will go into the stash for another of such occasions. 

A much simpler sentiment on the inside - not sure who will receive this one.

Today is a joyous occasion.  Happy Anniversary, Bob and Mabel!  Your love is still a young love...

A Happy Anniversary to .... My Hubby

 With all the graduation preparation, celebration and clean up, I knew that I wouldn't have time for anything elaborate for my hubby to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary.  It's a little corny to make a card for your husband, but this is one of the ways he knows I care - that I won't let the opportunity pass to give him one of my creative works.

This card is made from lots of tiny hearts cut with several different mini-heart dies using patterned papers from the stash.  Most of these papers were smaller than 1 in wide strip from a 6 x 6 paper pad.  It is a good use for the scraps - though I'm left with a ton more hearts.

On the inside a simple sentiment that expresses my love for him with a few stamped hearts.  I'm currently in Oahu, Hawaii on a graduation celebration vacation with my youngest daughter, son and husband.  It is a spectacular place and we're blessed to be able to celebrate our anniversary in leisure, together, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Here's hoping your June is off to a smashing start...

Sixty-Five Years of Marriage

Friends of ours recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.  What a stunning tribute to marriage!  They celebrated with their local church and invited a few of us family friends to join them.  It was very inspiring and encouraging.  I made this simple card to show them our love and tucked a gift card to a nice restaurant inside.  This way they could enjoy a night out together sometime.  Here's the details:

• I used an embossing folder with white cardstock to create the piece on the top, applied with foam squares to raise it off the card front for some dimension.
• The board die was used to cut the same white cardstock making the eyelet piece applied under a piece of green ribbon from the stash.
• The flower is a Heartfelt Vintage Floret cut from kraft glassine paper.  I just love how this looks when shaped- all crinkley with such dimension!  The flower is finished with a pearl accent for the center and a couple of pearl ended hat pins as accents.
• The sentiment is stamped in black archival ink using Simon Says Stamp's Friendship Messages. 

What joy to celebrate such committment.  I pray that Dan and I might enjoy as many long years together!

20 Years of Wedded Bliss

Today is a momentous occasion in the Miller household.  Dan and I celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary today.  Yes, 20 long years ago I started the day at my mom's house. I'd given up on my apartment lease 3 weeks earlier and didn't want to pay for part of a month and move during the end of college and last minute wedding planning rush.  I wasn't particularly nervous, just anxious for things to go swell. 

Twenty years have a way of going by extremely fast.  In my head, I'm not nearly old enough to have been married for 20 years (I would add that I'm much thinner, younger looking and can run considerably faster in my head as well!).  When first married I got into a verbal tif with a coworker who asserted the fact that married life doesn't have to change you.  Her position was that having lived with her boyfriend for many years, she felt it wouldn't change anything to be married.  I'd give a ton of bricks to find out what she thinks all these years later...

I can say one thing that hasn't changed- my love for my dear husband.  The sentiment on this card says it all- he is the one on this Earth that my soul loves and has loved now for more than 20 years.  Even if there are days where I'd like to back up and take a running start at him (which is doomed to failure because I am only faster in my head!)...

Happy Anniversary, husband!  I love you!

The card was made with my Heartfelt Creations Posy stamp and die set.  The squares of white cardstock and each flower were colored using a Fantastik and my Peacock Feathers and Worn Lipstick Distress Inks.  The sentiment is the same used for the bridal shower card last month that I printed out using Word.

Basic Grey's Sweet Threads Cards

I had cause during June to need to make an anniversary card and a birthday card.  I just love my Basic Grey Sweet Threads collection.  I haven't (obviously) used it enough because I still have whole 12 x 12 sheets of this beautiful patterned paper.  I actually scraplifted a good portion of the design and like a git I didn't mark down the reference so I can't share with you the wonderful original inspiration.  Either way, I am soooo pleased with how these cards turned out.  All cuts except the swirl and flowers are cut from Cricut's Accent Essentials.  The swirly flower stamp set is a Inkadinkado set stamped using my coffee Archival Ink.  The anniversary sentiment comes from a wood stamp I've had for ages and the flower on this card comes from those made for my May Day baskets. 

I realized that the Birthday card was photographed before I stamped the sentiment from my Glitzy stamp set (a French phrase I'm not sure exactly what it means).  The flower in this card was embossed and die cut from Heartfelt Creations Posy stamp and dies.  In this second photo, you should be able to see the pearls added using my Viva Decor Pearl Pen.  You might be able to detect them at the end of the flower swirls.  Very nice finish to a card I am very pleased with the result.  I'd make this one again and again using different paper combinations from the Sweet Threads collection.  Great paper makes designing easy!

Andie