1-2-3 Casual Fridays Challenge

CFC #44

Happy Saturday!!!!  Today is off to a GREAT start ~ it's a gorgeous Sunny day here in Michigan and I've been able to get some crafting done this morning.

Today I'm here to share the Anniversary card I made for this week's CAS-ual Friday challenge.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Cheers to You, Hero Arts Everyday Sayings

Paper:  Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Me & My Big Ideas DP

Ink:  Memento Black

Accessories:  Stickles, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Marvy Giga Scalloped Square Punch, Photo Corner Punch

This week's challenge is a recipe challenge using 3 things:

1. A Pattern  
2. An Image
3. A Sentiment

 I cut the scalloped square out of the patterned paper and used dimensionals to pop the image up inside the square.  For the banner on the sentiment I used the triangle corner of the photo corner punch.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Anniversary card!

Julie

Celebrating Love

Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Love Letter Seals, Music Notes Stampin Up Wheel

Ink:  Basic Black

Paper:  Kraft, Old Olive, Basic Black, Going Grey, Very Vanilla

Accessories:  Eyelet Border Punch, Black Ribbon, Coluzzle, Labels One Nesties, Brads

Happy New Year's Eve!  Today's project is this Celebrating Love card.  I made it for this week's Stampin B's Challenge - #91 Make a Celebration Card.  For the color combo I used this week's Colour Q combo CQC#65.  The layout is from this week's Sweet Stop Sketch SSS88.  Today's Free 4 All Challenge (F4A45) at SCS is to celebrate those resolutions.  I can't really think of a better resolution than to Celebrate Love in 2011.

The stamp set I used is from Whimsy Stamps (Love Letter Seals).  I won this set from their blog hop earlier this month and was so excited to get a chance to use it.  The middle of the seal says 

"And now these three remain:

faith, hope, and love

but the greatest of these is LOVE."

Special Thanks to Whimsy for this great stamp set! 

 

Wishing you and yours a Very Blessed & Happy New Year!

Our 11th Wedding Anniversary and A Sketch

Today my husband and I celebrate our 11th Wedding Anniversary.  As a person who makes cards, this occasion is always a bit of a challenge for me.  How can I express my love for my husband through a card?  Well I usually spend hours working on it and end up feeling like it came out okay.  This year I did spend hours on the card but I think it came out really nice.    Here is the card I made for my husband....

Since my DH is not much for a fussy card I wanted to create something on the clean & simple side and I wanted it to be elegant.  So I enlisted the help of this week's Clean & Simple Stamping FTL112 sketch.  I really like the sketch.  It called for a square card but I really thought it looked good as 5.5 x 4.25 card.  I used Stampin Up's My Digital Studio for the sentiment and the heart.  There are exactly 11 pearls under the Happy Anniversary Sentiment.  What this card doesn't say is the music represents all the love songs that remind me of him and us.  This week my favorite is Smile by Uncle Kracker.  Scott you make me SMILE!

Feeling Sketchy Lately - SFYTT Sketch 6/5/2010

This anniversary card is for the SFYTT (Sketch for you to try) challenge from I{heart}2stamp . It is also for my sister's wedding anniversary. I was the maid of honor in her wedding 15 years ago.

I've been trying to do more sketches lately to try some different layouts. When I came across the i{heart}2Stamp challenge from a post on Splitcoast Stampers I knew I had to try this one. I was sold on trying it when I saw that it was a SQUARE card. I very rarely make square cards. I am so happy that I tried the sketch. It was a really fun card to make.

The background DP is from Archivers. I sponged pretty in pink to give it a softer look. The Two hearts in the image panel were created on my digital studio. The top heart is slightly smaller than the one behind it. The background heart is done in close to cocoa and the one in the foreground is done in regal rose. The flower embelishment is also from Archivers.

The sentiment is computer generated in Regal Rose. This entire card ties into the recipient's wedding song - Endless Love. I wanted to incorporate something from their wedding day into the card and I think the two hearts sentiment with the two hearts in the image panel combine perfectly to tell their story!

I really enjoyed making a square card and using the SFYTT sketch. Thanks for checking out my Blog!

Our 10th Wedding Anniversary

I made this card for my husband on our 10th Wedding Anniversary.

I used the Stampin Up Cheers to you set with silver embossing powder.
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, and brushed Silver.
Punches: Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Ticket Corner Punch
Stampin Up Embossing Plate & Basic Black Ribbon
The sentiment is computer generated.