Anniversary cards

Hello blog fans!

Today I have a couple Anniversary cards to show you.

My friend Emma and her husband just celebrated their

50th wedding anniversary.

I was invited to a party for them, but I couldn't attend.

I couldn't let their party go by without making a card for them.

I made 2 cards and now have one in reserve for the next time

I need one.

This is the card I sent them.

The background was made by smooshing Distress Inks

onto watercolor paper using a piece of acrylic.

I'm sorry it doesn't show up better, but it turned out 

really pretty.  For the hearts I cut out a heart shape from a piece 

of card stock, placed it onto white card stock and smooched

over it with VersaMark ink, covered it with silver embossing powder

and heated it with my heat gun until melted.  I made 2 hearts this way

and fussy cut them and adhered them to the background with foam tape.

The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from Eureka Stamps.

I stamped it onto silver vellum and heat embossed it with 

silver embossing powder.

After wrapping it around the background panel, I adhered the panel 

to a white card base.

Inside I wrote a personal note to Emma and Charles.

This is the other card that I made.

I ran a piece of white card stock through my Cuttlebug

in an embossing folder and embossed tiny hearts covering the 

panel.  I cut out a heart from a piece of card stock and used it as 

a stencil and "colored" the heart using Nuvo Mousse in gold.

To see this technique watch this video that my friend

Marleen made.

The sentiment strip was made the same way as the one above,

but I used white embossing powder.

I added strips of silver vellum at the top and bottom of the

embossed panel and adhered it to the white card base with

foam tape.

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