Friday 12 April 2013

40th Anniversary Card

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to Debbie and Alanna who are much appreciated new followers this week.

I was looking at this inspiration photo 


on the Avery Elle challenge blog which says wedding reception to me, and I was reminded of attending a wedding 40 years ago because the friends who got married are about to celebrate their Ruby Wedding Anniversary. We will be joining in their celebrations in a couple of weeks and I wanted to make a special card for them, so I decided to CASE one of my own cards from 2011

This time I used Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel colours which fitted the Ruby Wedding theme perfectly. I used PTI Limitless Layers Heart dies to put a heart inside the card and embossed the sentiment in white using Avery Elle Count On It stamps


I then die cut another heart and stamped it with stamps from PTI With all my Heart, embossing the background stamp with clear embossing powder to give some shine


When the card is closed, the two hearts rest together to give a lovely layered effect. I put an eyelet into the smaller heart and attached some thread so I could dangle it from the sop of the aperture and used a ribbon punch to cut slots so I could tie some ribbon and hide the hole at the top.


A sentiment finished it off.

I am also going to enter this into the current Lexi's Creations challenge to use die cuts and punches, and the Simon Says Stamps challenge which is to use rain or flowers on a project.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

Hugs
Carol x




16 comments:

Sasha said...

Your card is beautiful, Carol. I love the colours...everything looks so clean and perfect! Gorgeous creation! x

Irene said...

Carol, your card is stunning and so beautiful. I love the design, especially the swinging heart and flowers. A perfect Ruby Wedding card.
luv
irene
xxxx

Leigh Penner said...

This is fabulous, Carol!

Sara Mac said...

Amazing card! That Scarlet Jewel looks so rich and beautiful. I love your unique design.

Kim M said...

That is a lovely card! I really like the colours you chose.

Karen C. said...

I love the way the heart hangs in the opening. What a great idea!! Scarlet Jewel and white makes such an elegant colour scheme as well.

Melissa Bove said...

Wow! What a gorgeous card!! Fabulous design!!

Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

Hugs...
Melissa

Darnell said...

Holy hanging-heart-card, Carol, this is a show-stopper! An elegant, treasured gift by the recipient!!

Glenda Atkins said...

Fabulous anniversary card, love the two hanging hearts as the focal point, wonderfully designed! Thanks for joining us at Lexi's Creations!

Joyce said...

This is so pretty. Such a clever design, too.

Anonymous said...

Oh my word, this is STUNNING!!! Love it!
xx

Deb said...

oh wow, this is totally amazing, so beautiful!
Debxx

Karin Ã…kesdotter said...

This is Fabulous!!! LOVE your super sweet and beautiful card! Have a great week-end, hugs, Karin

Viv said...

What a fabulous card Carol, I love it :) Viv xx

Avery Elle said...

This is so lovely Carol. I love the design!

Marion said...

wow I love this design. Feel inspired to get into my craft room having seen this!

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