Ruby Wedding Mice

This is one of the cards I was asked to make this week. I used a LOTV simply print, printing out two so I could decoupage the balloon. The paper is an old Craftwork Cards one and I used a doily behind the diecut image. The flowers are from Wild Orchid.

We're off to get our click and collect shopping at lunchtime, such excitement! I'm sure we are all looking forward to the day we can browse the shops safely, have a meal out and feel safe around other people.  That may be some time away I fear. Until then stay safe x

Ruby Wedding

Good evening, here I am back home from a lovely celebratory weekend. Thanks so much to all those of you who left me so many lovely comments both on here and on Facebook. I especially loved the comments saying I don't even look 40, never mind being old enough to have been married for 40 years, bless you.

This is the card I made my hubby, which he loved. It features a sepia digi of Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea. The background paper is HOTP and the others are Country Companions. You know I love 8 x 8 cards and lots of details so I wanted to add lots of different textures and details to this card. There's ribbon, a charm, a heart doily which I chalked, a Nestie cut heart and heart Sizzix cut corners. I also used the hearts that came out of the corners. The 40 numbers were from some old Poundland stickers which matched the papers perfectly. I also used the MS PATP set.

Challenges:
One Stop Craft Texture
Delicious Doodles
Stamp Something Digi
Crafty Cardmakers Love the lasting kind
Forever Friends 3 papers
Pollycraft Love and marriage
Papertake Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes Let's get sentimental
My Partner in Crafting Crime Uncoloured image
CRAFT Wedding/love
Delicious Doodles Texture

I've got so much to catch up on now, including finishing off some Crafter's Companion samples, this week's DT cards and DT commenting plus visiting you and leaving comments which I will do as soon as I can.

Ruby Wedding Anniversary

As you can see we are celebrating with champagne in our hotel room on our 40th wedding anniversary (see post above for more details and celebration candy). We had a lovely evening last night with a meal and show at the Theatre (Spirit of the Dance). Today we are in Birmingham at a very nice boutique hotel. Off to have a meal shortly and then will be rocking the night away to Journey, Foreigner and Styx. We may have been married 40 years but we still know how to rock. We're here for a couple of nights. Plan to visit Stratford on Avon tomorrow.

Ruby Wedding

Wow, thanks for all your lovely comments on my cards posted yesterday. I was stunned that so many of you visited me. I really do appreciate them all. Going back to work was tough and I am glad I only work 5.5 hours per dayand work flextime. I was in at 8.15 and at 1.30 I left as I was whacked. I spent a lovely afternoon making a couple of cards with images which I coloured last night. One card is a DT one so I can't share that with you until Friday.

This card is for some friends who are celebrating their Ruby Wedding on Sunday. I enjoyed making the last tri -shutter card so much I wanted to try another. I had made a note of all the measurements I worked out, including the paper sizes so it was much quicker to make this time and what a great way to use up all those scraps of paper we can't bear to throw away. The image is FF of course. I added a punched MS heart, some pearl hearts, a bow and some padded hearts that have been in my stash for about 3 years and which match the spotted paper. The numbers are from an old alphabet set from Poundland.
Challenges
Forever Friends Kinetic card
The Townscrapper Save a tree (use one piece of card and paper scraps)
Totally Papercrafts More than one fold

Ruby Wedding

This is number 3 of the 8 orders I have to make. Luckily I don't have to make them all today. I'm really pleased with the way this one turned out. I ordered a couple of items from the lovely Quixotic paperie shop which arrived today. Isn't it exciting when the postie delivers something you are desperate to try out. I immediately got my brush into the angel wings Shimmerz and used it on the 2 smaller red flowers on this card. It dried really quickly and gives a lovely silvery shine to the flowers. The sketch is from Friday Sketchers and at Die Cut Dreams the challenge is hearts and flowers. I used various flowers with red heart brads in the centre. The die cut is from Twiddleys and the red patterned card is K&Co.