Hi everyone, today I’d like to share the wedding anniversary card I made for my darling husband. We had a few things going on which put me somewhat behind, and I ended up making this in something of a panic. Feeling a tad short of inspiration, I turned to a design I made last year (here), and CASE’d my own design with a few amendments and enhancements as this card is bigger - 8” square.
I cut a 6.5” square of stamping card and created a heart by blending red Elements ink through a stencil. I then stamped Tilly and Tango “holding hands” and hearts to either side of them, which I turned into balloons by adding strings drawn with a fineliner pen. I then added a further dangling heart being held by them both, and a grunge heart by Tracy Evans in the top corner, with an unbranded “I love you” postmark. I grounded the mice by blending some Graphite Elements using a hill mask, added some white Posca accents to the scene, then stamped my sentiment which was built up from a Woodware set and an old “Me to You” set. I assembled the card by matting onto black and red borders and my card blank.
As it’s for my husband I also decorated the inside of the card …
… and the envelope.
Stamps: Lavinia Tilly and Tango, Single Heart Mini, Hearts Mini, Fairy Charms; AALL & Create #453 Heart Grunge; Woodware Happy Anniversary; Me To You Husband sentiment; Pink Frog Typewriter Sentiments; Unbranded postmark stamp;
Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Emperor Red, Graphite); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Strawberry); Posca pen (white);
Tools: Press to Impress Heart stencil; Lavinia hill mask.
Challenges I would like to enter:
A Perfect Time to Craft #9 2025 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Alphabet Challenge - K is for Keep it Simple
Crafts Galore Encore (September) - Anything Goes
Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (September) - Use a Stencil
Dream Valley #344 - 2 or More Layers
Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday (September) - Anything Goes
Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #9 2025 - Anniversary (2nd entry)
Love to Craft #88 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Make My Monday #260 - Fun With Stencils
Mix It Up #79 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Layer It Up
Word Art Wednesday #716/717 - Anything Goes
We’re planning to spend the day having some quality time together ❤️
In other news, last week I was really thrilled to discover that my September Lavinia calendar page (here) was chosen as ‘Make of the Week’ on the Lavinia FB page, AND was featured on a graphic about sources of calendar inspiration in the Lavinia FB community groups! Woo hoo! I’ve edited the calendar post to mention it but am also mentioning it here as this is my first post since finding out 😀
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
17 comments:
A wonderful adaptation of your previous card - those mice were just made for love. Well done for getting a mention on the Lavinia page for your calendar illustration. Happy Anniversary 🥰
A beautiful romantic anniversary card for your husband Pauline, a lovely design, those little mice are so sweet, some of my favourite Lavinia stamps.
Congrats on the recognition of your beautiful calendar page- a very proud moment for you. xx
Fabulous anniversary card and congrats on your September calendar page recognition. xxx
Congrats on getting a mention on your Calendar-beautiful card, love the cute image inside the heart.
Carol x
Such an adorable card! Love how you used a previous card as inspiration :) Congratulations on your calendar page; very exciting!
Congrats on your win over at Lavinia. Very well deserved. Love your anniversary card. Those little mice are so cute. I find cards for my husband are the hardest xx
Happy Anniversary! This is so cute!!
Gorgeous card Pauline - and Happy Anniversary. We are just about to head off on Sunday to celebrate our 40th! Where does the time go? Thanks for sharing with us at Love to Craft
Oh Pauline this is just fabulous ... love those little dancing meeces! LOL Hope you & hubby had a FABULOUS day! Happy Anniversary!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Stencil Fun challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Stencil Fun Co-Owner
It's hard to believe that it's time again to celebrate your wedding anniversary!! This year's card is cute in lots of ways!! All those hearts and balloons make it a delightful celebration card! God's blessings for many more years together! And thanks for creating and sharing with HQCOLCB! -- Becca
Fabulous card for your hubby, Happy Anniversary to you both.
Congratulations on the Lavinia Make of the Week.
Liz xx
Happy anniversary to you and your hubby, Pauline! I love the card that you made for him. I looked at both of them and I think I like this year‘s the best. You’ve done a great job on both of them though. I love the shading of the heart, and all the little extras that you added like the postmark. The envelope looks really nice too. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word art Wednesday! We always appreciate you!
Love it. So cute and fun. Thank you for joining us at The Alphabet Challenge xx Lynda/Loopyloo DT (Sorry for the late comment - I have been away)
Gorgeous anniversary card! Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing with us @ Make My Monday.
I'm late at commenting as my cousin was visiting and I spent almost no time on the computer so now I am catching up.
Absolutely love how this turned out! Such a fun idea to turn the hearts into heart shaped balloons and the colors are so perfect for an anniversary card!
Oh, an congrats on having your calendar page selected as the "make of the week". I can see why as it's beautiful!
So great to see you at my Crafty Wednesday challenge too!
Your card and envelope are super cute all over! Thank you for joining us at the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge.
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