Silver Card

My card for DH – another pop-up box, but this time for our silver anniversary.

21

DS was 21 recently.  Mind you, I don’t feel old enough to be the mum of a 21 year old!!

The first card was a “pop-up”box card.  Three of the flaps were decorated with pics of DS at various ages,  and the front flap was covered in sheet music washi tape with a nice big 21.  Using a 2 and a 1 paper clip for the greeting part, 2 keys and a stamped quote, the card soon came together.  Please note: the personal greeting has been erased using paint shop as I forgot to photograph it before I wrote on it (duh!)

The second card is simply the outline for a number 21 printed on card, then using my Rotring pens, zentangled.  I had great fun doing the zentangles and was pleased with the result.  Mounted onto a gold card (embossed with my gear embossing folder & swiped with a gold ink pad) – a simple but effective result.

De Bruiloft (the wedding)

As my regular readers will know, DH and I are keen ballroom & Latin dancers: we have lessons every week.  The dance school arranges balls throughout the season and the most recent was de Bruiloft (the wedding).  The idea behind this theme was that the students would be the wedding guests.  We were split into to various groups: family of the bride/groom; colleagues of the bride/groom and so on – a great way of getting people to know each other from the different year groups.
Now, whilst we weren’t expected to bring a gift for the (pretend) bride & groom, we were encouraged to bring a card.  An opportunity that I simply couldn’t miss, and the bonus was I got to make two cards: one from DH and me and one from my DS and his dancing partner.

The one on the left used a combination of embossing (Swiss dots and hearts) and a bride & groom embellishment that I found in my stash.  The one on the right also made use of embossing, this time the wedding cake (Sizzix textured impressions – Wedding set 655845).  Using a gold ink pad, I carefully swiped over the embossing, just to give it a bit more oomph.
I also made a wedding cake.  Not a real one of course, but one from boxes,ribbon, ribbon & paper flowers, washi tape and oasis.
    

Almost silver

Friends of ours celebrated their 24th anniversary this year.  I wanted to included some sort of grey/silver elements as it’s almost the silver anniversary.  I also wanted to make a modern, fresh looking card.  This is what I came up with:

Using Sizzix Sizzlits heart scribbles #4 die (654811) and Sizzix self adhesive card stock in silver grey, orange and white, I cut three hearts. I mixed and matched the pieces until I had a look that I liked.  I embossed peach paper using my Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder (37-1604) and assembled the card on a pearly orange card blank.  Before adding the hearts I used some grey washi tape to divide the card.