Anniversary

 I have friends who will be celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary next month, so I made this card for them. Instead of putting the number 46 on the card, I opted to put 4 pearls in one corner and 6 pearls in the other to indicate the number of years they've been together. I found this pretty piece of dsp in my stash and die-cut it with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle. The golden heart was done with a stitched die and the sentiment is from SU!'s Beautiful Bouquet (retired). I heat-embossed it with gold ep and used a very old (retired) SU! oval punch to cut it, then placed it on the heart.

I'm sharing this card with the Allsorts Challenge blog week #781 - A/G

They're celebrating their 15th birthday this week with a big celebration so you might want to check the details by clicking the link above.

Thanks for stopping by and make this a great week whatever you do!

Carol

Anniversary Cards

I made and sent both of these cards already so I thought I'd share them today. The turquoise and black version was done with an older Sizzix embossing folder and the anniversary sentiment was done with a Kat Scrappiness die. The tiny hearts were done with a retired SU! mini punch.

 Here's another version done in a berry color with a Sunny studio quilted hearts embossing folder.

I'm sharing the first card with these challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure? January 13, 2024 - A/G using an embossing folder with an optional twist of snow people

The Word Power Challenge #1 - The sentiment must be the focus of your card.

Allsorts Challenge week #763 - make your own background or A/G

Thanks so much for stopping by and have yourself a great day!

Carol

Anniversary Card

 I recently made this anniversary card for a friend and used up lots of snippets to create it. I had pieces of silver mirri card in strips and squares leftover from other projects, so I die-cut the anniversary greeting, the stitched heart shape and the number inside the shaker element. I die cut the leafy stem from a snippet of white and that tiny bow was die cut from blue snippets also. I lined the shaker with tulle and added an assortment of silver, blue, and white gems, sequins and die-cut heart snippets and finished with tiny blue gemstones on the white stem and a tiny silver gem on the little bow. The blue glitter cardstock was a beautiful find at a craft store and it just had to be matched with silver for a great look.

Sharing with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - make it sparkle

Also sharing with the Snippets Playground #468 - must use snippets

Wishing everyone a happy Monday and have fun cyber shopping!

Thanks for stopping by 😉

Carol

40th Anniversary Card

 My good friends/neighbors recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and this is the card I made for them. I used a 5x7" card base so that I could fit the die-cut heart and sentiment together, along with a die-cut sprig of leaves at the top. I used some retired SU! glittered paper and added all sorts of sparkly sequins, gems and embellishments into the shaker which I covered with tulle instead of acetate. I die-cut the number 40 and adhered that to the card front before adding all the shaker elements and covering it with  the stitched heart die-cut shape. I added some Nuvo pink drops for a little sparkle, and added the Kat Scrappiness die-cut sentiment to finish this before hand delivering it. The sentiment die also comes with a shadow die but I couldn't fit it all onto this front panel even with the larger card base. It really does make a statement though, doesn't it?

I'll share this with the Shopping our Stash Challenge SOS505 - which is to "shake it up" - make a shaker card.

They loved this card by the way, so it was a winner!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful day full of fun craftiness!

Carol

Anniversary Birds

I made this card some time ago and never posted it, so today it finally gets it's outing. I placed a circle on some cardstock, then sponged orange and yellow colors around it to create a full moon. The Birds were done with a SU! punch, adding snippets of plaid material as their "suits." I used a Memory Box woodland branch die to create something for them to sit on and added an anniversary stamped sentiment. The tiny birds were done with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

The Simon Says stamp Wednesday Challenge - make it cute

the Double D challenge - fall plaids

The Triple B September Challenge - birds, blooms, butterflies (any or all)

Wishing you a wonderful day today and I hope you'll make it your best yet!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Elegant Anniversary Card

 When a thoughtful friend sent me this beautiful SU! Tasteful Textiles embossing folder recently I sat right down and made an anniversary card with it. I used a SU! blended bloom stamp; embossing with gold ep and coloring it with Copics and fine markers. I fussy cut it; then popped it up with foam tape, and added die-cut golden stems and golden peel-off stickers all around beneath it. The gold-embossed sentiment is from SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes and for the final touch I added a piece of vanilla ribbon. It looks white in the photo, but in real life it's a perfect match to the flower. 

Yesterday I packed up 2 shoeboxes of ribbon for donation as I've accumulated more than I'll ever use, but I still have plenty left. That's in addition to the 6 other boxes of stamps, punches, and other craft items soon headed out the door for donations. I felt like I was drowning in all these craft items so it was time to de-clutter and pass on these things to other crafters. Re-organizing a craft room takes lots of time and thought along with a mindset of letting go of cherished things. It's not easy for me 😔

I'm entering this into the TIME OUT Challenges #233 which is "elegant."

Thanks for spending a few moments of your time to come visit me - it's always nice to have you here!

Carol

Anniversary Owls

Hello and welcome everyone! I was inspired to pull out my old SU! owl punch after seeing this Valentine card recently, so I found some snippets of black, white, yellow, red, green, and kraft, along with 2 tiny pieces of a sandy-colored designer paper and created these two lovey owls perched on some branches. I die-cut the stitched circle and stenciled it with T.E. cloud stencils and some Tumbled Glass Ink. The sentiment is by Tim Holtz and someone gave me a whole sheet of his sentiment stamps quite some time ago, and this is the first outing for that particular sentiment. I thought it was cute for an anniversary card, so the anniversary greeting is inside. That beautiful embossed card base was done with a SU! Tasteful Textiles ef, given to me by a very generous friend. I thought the SSS Audrey Blue cardstock made a good color base for this card.

 Here's a closer view to show that beautiful embossing and the Wink of Stella I put on those tiny red hearts for a little sparkle! You can also see the subtle pattern on their little "suits."

I'm going to share this with the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground Challenge #448- must use snippets

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Emboss it!

The Double D Challenge - Birds

The Stencil Fun Challenge for February - must use a stencil

The NBUS Challenge #47 - Never Before Used Schtuff - (ef, sentiment)

Allsorts Week #716 - A/G  with an option of "Wings"

Critter Crazy Challenge #71 - A/G using a featured critter

Thanks for stopping by and I wish each and every one of you a wonderful day! I'm grateful for the sunshine here today, even if it is on the chilly side!

Carol

An Anniversary Card for my Husband

 Today my husband and I are celebrating our 53rd wedding anniversary and I made this card for him. I started with a dark brown card base, adding some beautiful white textured paper from SSS. The Impression Obsession wooden heart is brand new - a gift I selected as a prize from winning the Dies R Us Challenge recently. How lucky was I 😄

I die-cut both layers from SU! woodgrain papers and added a little arrow and die-cut heart where I stamped the number in the center in white. The "Love you" is an older die from SSS and that's all this card needed. My husband doesn't like fussy things but I think he'll enjoy this.

I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and got to spend time with friends and family.

We spent half our Christmas day in the ER with my husband being sick and unable to eat. Turns out he has gallstones as well as an infection, so he's not enjoying the holidays much this year, but he's home and doing better today, thank goodness!

Of course I'm going to enter this into the Dies R Us Challenge #183 where the challenge is to use any dies that the Dies R Us store sells.

I'll also enter this into the NBUS Challenge #33 with this brand new wooden heart image.

Thanks for stopping by and I do wish you a wonderful day and a great week ahead as well.

Carol

Shimmery Anniversary Card

Today I have a card that makes use of a couple new items. The anniversary sentiment was done with a new die from Kat Scrappiness using black and a bit of SSS pre-embossed woodgrain white cardstock. The embossed panel was done with a new Memory Box Open Studio "Blooming" embossing folder. I used a piece of shimmery, sparkly cardstock from an old paper pad but I love how it turned out.

 Here's a close-up, and if you click the photo, you can see the embedded glitter in the paper. It really has a beautiful sparkle but it's hard for the camera to capture that feature. I added 2 heart-shaped gems for the finishing touch and that's all this card needed.

I'm sharing this with these challenges:

Let's Squash It!! Challenge #10 - Shimmer and Shine

NBUS #28 - New ef and new die

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Simon Says Emboss it!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope your day is a good one!

Carol

Anniversary Card

 I made this card for friends who recently celebrated their anniversary. I don't know why I chose this color combination, other than the fact that I just liked it on the day I made this card :) I used a piece of SU! dsp for the orange background and a grassy green card base, using Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies on both. The anniversary circle was a digital stamp I found in my files marked MMD (?) so I printed it, die-cut it with a MFT stitched circle die, and then colored it with green and orange glaze pens. I die-cut 2 small stitched hearts and added green gems to the orange heart and orange gems to the green heart. The final touch was to add some orange gg ribbon.

I'll share this with the Repeat Impressions DCC A721 challenge -

which is to make an anniversary card.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

An Anniversary Card

 My SIL and BIL have an anniversary coming up soon, so I made this card for them. After watching a recent video by Jennifer McGuire I had to try my hand at making a card using her technique. I started with a panel of gorgeous grape cardstock, and used a (r) SU! ef to emboss large roses onto it, then swiped it with a white craft ink pad. I die-cut an oval from a panel of white, then embossed that with an Anna Griffin ef and placed it on top. The floral image was a sample from STAMPlorations that was colored with Copics and then clear embossed to bring the colors to a deeper level. I placed it partially in the window and added the sentiment to the top; and finally added some lavendar Nuvo drops here and there for a little sparkle.

I'll share this with these challenges:

The Flower Challenge #54 color - shades of purple

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #667 - celebrate

Just Us Girls #575 Trend Week - use an embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by and do have yourself a fantastic weekend! I'm going to lose an hour's sleep tonight when the clocks get turned back, but I'll be grateful for the extra hour of daylight that will come in the evenings.

Take care - kindness matters!

Carol

52 Years Ago....

 Hello everyone and a happy Monday. I hope everyone enjoyed a nice Christmas and Santa brought what you wanted.

Today my husband and I celebrate our 52nd anniversary. It makes my head spin when I think of how quickly those years passed and yet here we are!

I used some graduated stitched heart dies, embossing the white one with a Damask ef. The smallest one was cut from some wedding papers and the photo doesn't capture it clearly, but it says "On This Day" above the die-cut I.O. numbers, then just below it I wrote in "years ago." The little Gerda Stein Mouse was stamped, colored with Copics, and fussy cut and placed along the bottom. The little plastic numbers were cut from a sheet of printed numbers I saved from who knows where, but I cut the numbers that coordinated with the date of our wedding.

We've rarely made a fuss over our anniversary because it falls in between Christmas and New Years Day, but it's also my grandfather's birthday today whom I miss very much and celebrate today as well.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Carol

Z-fold Anniversary Card

My neighbors and friends celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary recently, and this is the card I gave them (along with a home-made cheesecake). I have hoarded this SU! retired Haiku dsp for much too long and forced myself to use a few snippets to make this card. The sentiment on the front was die cut several times and coated with glossy accents for some sparkle, and I dotted the coral dsp with liquid Nuvo drops to add more sparkle. The inside was done with some I.O. die-cut numbers, placed inside of a die-cut stitched heart. The sentiment is from SU!. I hope they enjoyed the card because it wasn't even mentioned amid the raves for the cheesecake LOL

I'll enter this into the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #465 - anything goes

I wanted to offer an apology to those who commented on the previous post and didn't get their comments published. I had a spammer leave a very long advertisement, and I hit delete, but apparently I was hitting the delete button for the comment below it, as the spam comment kept showing again and again. I finally realized after 3 or 4 showings of that comment, that I was  clicking on the delete icon for the comments below it instead of deleting the actual spam comment. I'm sorry - the only excuse I have is that I'm old and had a serious senior moment, so I'm very sorry. I will be more careful next time, but I wish these spammers would just get a life and leave me alone. Not only here, but on the telephone in my house! It's endless annoying harassment on a daily basis.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and have yourself a fantastic day!

Carol

 

Our Anniversary

Today my husband and I are celebrating our 51st wedding anniversary. WOW, where did all those years go so quickly? Neither of us can quite grasp the fact that we've been together for 51 years! Anyway, this is the card I made for him. I heat-embossed the PB "birches" image on some PTI Soft Stone card stock using brown ep. I added some color to the trees with Tombow markers, and hand-drew the year 1968 within the heart on the tree. I matted with some Early Espresso card stock, and heat-embossed the SNSS sentiment with white ep. For the final touch I added a couple little birds to add some color to this card. In my mind, I'm thinking I added them to indicate two love birds, but my husband hates mushy stuff, so I kept this pretty much plain LOL

I'm sharing this with the December Penny Black Saturday challenge -anything goes with an option to add sparkle and shine

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great start to the weekend!

Carol

42 Year Love Story

My blogging friend recently celebrated her 42nd Anniversary, and this is the card I sent. I pulled the plug on my red, black, and white snippets, stamps and dies to put this one together! Hah! Where do I start? 

The background dsp is by DCWV, the black Chevron cover-all die is by PTI, the big red heart is from a SSS thank-you heart die set, the celebrate die is from Lil Inker, the tiny white heart is from a SU! mini punch. The word LOVE was done with a PTI die, the word "story" was done with a MFT stamp set and MFT label die. The other words were randomly done with assorted stamps and stick stamps for lettering and numbers, and I added 3 tiny heart bits that were negatives from previous die cuts.

I'll share this with the Snippets Playground Challenge #364 as it may include more snippets than I've ever combined to make a card LOL

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Sunday. It's a rainy day here in PA - a good day for doing absotively nuttin'!

Carol

36th Anniversary Card

I've been hoarding 2 sheets of Rose Red card stock and have finally decided to let go and use it! LOL I also used this pretty piece of Anna Griffin dsp that's been stashed away for years as well. I die-cut the Gina Marie Designs rose twice, from the Rose Red card and dsp, and inlaid the dsp negatives into the rose. The leaves were snippets of green that were folded in half and run through a paper crimper, then fussy cut to shapes of leaves. The 36 was done with I.O. number dies and the embossed panel was done with a SU! Fancy Fan ef. For the final touch I added some sparkly Nuvo drops randomly.

Today is the 36th anniversary of my dear friends and neighbors so this will be delivered later today.

I'm sharing this with the Flower Challenge #36 - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is a good one for you.

Carol

Water Color Anniversary

 I've been adding to my stash of anniversary cards recently and here's one made with an old wooden stamp by Anita's Sugarloaf, Inc that I've had for ages. I stamped it with Versamark and heat-embossed it with white ep, then sponged some Pistachio distress ink all over the image. I had a negative cut from a Mama Elephant Park Avenue Framed Tag die, and used it to frame this image before placing it on some DCWV script designer paper. I found an old snippet of some black velvet ribbon which I added to the top left, along with a SU! heat-embossed sentiment done on a Lil Inker stitched die cut banner. I was going to add some Nuvo drops but I thought I'd leave it alone as I liked it just the way it is.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Repeat Impressions Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge J1219

(I used the middle horizontal row. Pistachio is a pretty mix of blue & green, right?)

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Wedding or Anniversary

Thanks for checking in this Wednesday - I hope your day is a good one!

Carol

Anniversary Rose

I have quite a few anniversaries coming up soon, so I decided to get started with the cards now before time slips away from me completely. I stamped this Inkadinkado Rose with Versafine Onyx black ink on white card stock, then immediately clear-embossed it. I added some color with 2 Copics and then used a Tim Holtz burlap stencil to sponge Distress Tattered Rose ink on top. I added a black sentiment panel that was die-cut with a Lil Inker stitched die and heat-embossed with white ep, using a SU! teeny tiny wishes stamp. I added some Nuvo pink droplets for the final touch and it's all placed on a powder pink card base.

I'm sharing this with the Double D Challenge which is - "Rose Garden"

Also sharing with A Place to Start: June 2019 challenge - Stencil me in

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Carol

Retirement Card

Today is the last day of work for one of my blogging pals/friends and tomorrow she is moving to another state, so I made this card for her.  I used a pastel pink card base and embossed the white panel with a retired SU! tulips ef. The large flourish is by Cheery Lynn and the little pink and white flowers done with SU! mini punches were dotted with black Nuvo drops in the center. The sentiment was done in black with a Lil Inker die and I wove the flourish into a couple letters to entwine the two elements together. I thought the tulips and mini flowers were a good theme for this card since spring just began a couple days ago.

Best wishes in your new chapter of life Mary Anne. I hope you'll enjoy being your own boss after working all those years :)

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

TMS #468 Vintage Anniversary

Hello Everyone and welcome to another Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge. This week we're working on sketch #468.

My stash of anniversary cards was low, so I pulled out this Inkadinkado vintage stamp along with some SU! Powder Pink cardstock and Baked Brown sugar dsp to put this together. I used some Gina Marie Designs stitched oval dies for the main panels. I colored the image lightly with matching Copics, and added strips of dsp along with some pink mesh ribbon under the SU! sentiment. The final touch was some candy dots on the side.

I hope you'll find some time to play along this week as there's a new SU! inkpad up for grabs in a random drawing. Before you do anything, be sure and check out my fellow DT creations which can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck to everyone!

Carol