I needed to make an anniversary card that said loving words but wasn’t all ribbons and flowers. The brief was not too girly! So I came up with this mobile phone card using the Bee My Valentine bundle. The bee’s body punch makes a perfect speech bubble.
I used the Sentimental Park stamps for the words inside.
I made some swaps for backstage using the Ringed with nature bundle. The swap group that I was in had to make wedding or anniversary cards. I chose anniversary.
The colours are quite soft in real life with Petal Pink and Crumb Cake being the two main colours used.
The ringed with nature stamp set is so versatile. I have made birthday cards, welcome to your new home and get well cards using it. Now here’s an anniversary one. If I took the hearts off and added some Pebbled Path gray numbers, I could make them into cards for my team members who reach milestone years with Stampin up!
Adding simple embellishments like the Petal Pink ribbon from the Ribbon duo pack (there is a lovely Lemon Lime Twist ribbon in this pack too) and the enamel effects paint on the berry branches gives the card a little lift.
I hope my swap partners liked this card as much as I enjoyed making it!
This is one of my projects for my end of month classes in November. I had a request from a couple of ladies, to make wedding cards and I was surprised to discover that there are not many stamp sets in the annual catalogue that are suitable for a wedding card. I had to put my thinking cap on for this one!
I have used the Forever Ferns stamp set, with Gray Granite and Crumb Cake card and inks. To give a touch of elegance, I used silver embossing powder, silver foil card, gray granite shimmer ribbon and adhesive pearls.
Inside the card, I used the word “congratulations” from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set.
If you want to attend a class at the end of November, please contact me. Details are on the contact me tab.
It’s Sale-a-bration time again which means for every NZ$110 you spend, you get to choose a free product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I am joining with my fellow South Pacific Demonstrator Council members from last year to showcase one of the Sale-a-bration products.
I have decided to show you the free notecard and envelope pack. They are gorgeous! I feel that the notecards are often overlooked and I want to persuade you as to why they are a good choice. They are called notecards but they are actually an American full sized card. Which means they are slightly higher than our South Pacific sized cards and not quite as wide. Here is a comparison photo…
The cards measure 14 x 10.8 cm when folded in half.
There are 20 cards and 20 envelopes. The envelopes are all the same, in Soft Seafoam with lovely subtle white printing on the front bottom corner and on the envelope flap. Inside the flap is a scattering of pool party small leaf images. There are two different card designs. 10 cards in pool party with a darker pool party leaf background and 10 cards in soft seafoam with a white leaf background. The leaf images coordinate perfectly with the Splendid Day Suite in the annual catalogue.
Because I didn’t have the Splendid Day Suite, I decided to use the Forever Ferns bundle. The colours and patterns were delicate and it needed a stamp set that also had delicate leaf designs. I think this bundle worked perfectly. I kept to the colours in the cards but added in Sweet Sorbet to give it a little lift. I used the white seambinding ribbon as it is also soft and delicate.
On the soft seafoam card, I added a little bit of white embossing, just to carry through the white on soft seafoam look.
The embellishments I used were the in colour matte decorative dots. All the green dots are technically Parakeet Party in colour but because they are ombre dots, I was able to use the lightest green and it toned in well with the soft seafoam background.
I hope these projects inspired you to give this card and matching envelope set a go. I am certainly happy with how these wedding and thank you cards turned out.
Please click on the links below to see what other sale-a-bration products have been used by the other ladies in our blog hop and don’t forget to leave a comment if you like what you see.
Rhonda Fawcett – Little Paper Star
Deborah Schultz – Handcrafted by Deb
Caroline White – Creations With Caroline
Little Paper Star - Rhonda Fawcett 