Golden Wedding Anniversary Card

This Golden Wedding Anniversary card is made on an A5 size card with cream vellum.

Unfortunately, the vellum isn’t showing on the photograph, it covers the whole of the inner mat on the card, the embellishments hiding where the vellum is glued onto the base card.  

I had a rough idea of the look I wanted and the die cuts to use before I started.  They are all by Marianne design Creatables.  I used Kanban gold mirra card  and two shades of brown mica/pearlised card for the flowers.  

Firstly, I used a gold mat on the cream base card, leaving a thin border of the cream card showing.  Then, I cut another mat of cream card, but didn’t adhere it to the large gold mat until I had finished with placing and adhering the die cuts.  I made the flowers as per the instructions at the back of the flower dies and used punches for the gold leaves and tiny hearts. 

My handwriting is not brilliant and I didn’t have any stamps or peel-offs to say what I wanted, so cheated a little.  I chose the fonts on my computer and printed them out in black ink onto some scrap paper.  I already had the design laid out, so knew where the words should go.  I had a little practice first on tracing paper, before I committed to writing with a gold pen onto the vellum.  

I used a dry glue to fix the die cuts in place, so that the vellum wouldn't buckle.  Attached the vellum to the cream mat card and cut away the any overhanging flourishes before adhering to the gold mat.  Lastly, I used silicon glue for the flowers and leaves and dry glue again for the tiny hearts.

I think this design could be used for a silver anniversary too, just by changing the colours to white and silver. 

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

Lily Pond Stencil

I like the pastel colours I used on this oriental inspired card.  

The lily pond image is made using stencil by Dreamweaver.

The card size is A5.

I haven’t the time (or patience!) to use a lightbox and ball tool on this intricate pattern, so I used my Big Shot to emboss* the stencil pattern on the same cardstock as the card.  

Leaving the stencil in place, I coloured the raised areas with pastels on a brush, using a different brush for each colour.  Then, cut it out, leaving a border.  

On another piece of card I stamped the words in pink pigment ink and sprinkled clear embossing powder over, heating to set.  Then I edged both the stencil and words with the same pigment ink.

The real bamboo at the top is tied together with a length of blue raffia and adhered with dab of silicon glue.

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

*To dry emboss a stencil, you will need a rubber type sheet, which will compress the card into the shape of the stencil, there are several on the market, I used a Spellbinders mat.  The “sandwich” consists of:  the multiple base platform folded out for stencils, plate, card, stencil, rubber mat, plate.  

Daffodil Decoupage

Lots of things going on since the start of the year.  Mostly helping family members and looking at an opportunity for myself.  News on this to follow . . .

Okay, now to focus on this pretty card.  I’m not sure how colours appear on different computer screens, or how my camera captures the picture; the background card is a very pale green and square.

It’s made with decoupage and peel-offs.

I chose dark pink paper to layer the printed squares onto as I thought it went nicely with the pink flowers.  

Firstly, I placed the top square on the card, then the bottom square and finally the central one, to try to make the spaces equal.  As you can see, there was quite a large gap between the middle square to the top and bottom ones, which wasn’t the plan!

I placed the the decoupage picture at the bottom and placed the butterfly peel-off on the same coloured paper as the panel on the left and cut it out.  Curved the wings and and found its place on the card.  

However, the card looked like it was lacking something, so I added a straight peel-off at the side, leaving about half a strip left.  What to do with that?  Pop it on the onside and finish with little shapes?  It looked okay, so pressed them down to stick.  I had some slightly larger peel offs of these which worked nicely between the daffodil panels and seemed to bring the card together.  Then I put another peel off at the side of the pink panel.

Finishing off with the greeting and a flower.  In case you’re wondering I used silicon for the decoupage and to adhere the butterfly and single pink flower.

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)