I Love Candy! (And some anniversary cards)

Wow!  It came in the post on Saturday, I was so excited and ran in to open it - my candy from Donna at My Happy Place (if you're looking for a dollop of inspiration, this is the place to go). Here is what I got:

A pack of stick on diamonds (can't wait to start using those), some very groovy sentiments, a little bag of goodies containing little flowers, metallic heart shaped brads etc, and a wonderful stamp set with a gorgeous bear doing some painting and decorating.  I never win any competitions, raffles etc, so this is very exciting for me!

As the title says, I have been making some ruby wedding anniversary cards this week.  What a flippin' saga!  It is so hard to make sure they don't look like:
a) wedding cards
b) 40th birthday cards
which you don't realise until you start making them.
Anyway, here they are:

This was made using some magazine freebie papers, but the main sheet is from a Forever Friends set I bought last Christmas.  I printed the wording on my computer, then laid a tag template over it and cut it out.


These papers are from the Prima Melody collection, and they're absolutely beautiful.  I printed my Penny Black script stamp in the middle, and added the stamped image and the butterfly.  I've put glitter on the champagne bubbles, which looks quite nice.

I really enjoyed making this one, but it's harder than you think to get everything lined up properly.  I printed the sentiment on my computer first, then worked round it.  The little rose corner stamp is from a Forever Friends set, and the butterfly was in with some magazine freebies.   I am enjoying using stamps from different sets that work really well together.
All I can say is, "Phew!" and "It'll be a while before I make one of those again!"  But it was a learning experience and shows there's a big gap in the market for wedding anniversary toppers etc.  I know there's loads of stuff for weddings, but that's not the same thing, is it?  Never mind, I got there in the end, I hope my friend likes them...
Thanks for dropping by today,
Jane xx

Comments

  1. Margaret11 July 2011 at 15:12

    The candy looks scrummy :o) Your cards are really nice, love the last one. Did you use your Tanda stitching stamp?

    ReplyDelete
  2. coops11 July 2011 at 21:52

    gorgeous cards jane.really stylish and congrats on your candy win :D

    xx coops xx

    ReplyDelete
  3. Donna Mosley12 July 2011 at 06:43

    Oh! wow Jane these are all so gorgeous. I especially love the last one and how you've put it all together. Very clever. Glad you like the candy hun. :o)

    Donna x

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Colour Q Challenge # 121 and Freshly Made Sketches # 19

Image
Hi folks, hope you're having a good weekend.  I can hardly believe I'm posting again so soon, but I really wanted to get this card on before it's too late. Here are another couple of challenge blogs I've been following since just before Christmas, but I haven't had enough supplies to be able to join in.  The first one is the Colour Q challenge  which as you can see, wants us to use the colours shown in the picture, put together beautifully in the skirt.  I don't have any of the Stampin Up! In Colours yet, so this is the first time I've been able to have a go.  The second challenge blog is Freshly Made Sketches.  I saw this and wondered if I could combine the two challenges. And so here is my card: First of all, I rotated the sketch, I just couldn't work it that way up! I decided to use a kraft card base, and stamped the image (sorry I can't remember the name of it) which I'd inked up in Old Olive, Real Red and More Mustard. ...
Read more

The Paper Players #95

Image
Hello there everyone, hope you've had a good Monday.  I have, despite the pain in my hand.  I'm pleased to say it hasn't stopped me crafting one bit. I'm really pleased to have made a card that I can enter at The Paper Players blog challenge .  Here are their colours for this week: Such great colours, but it took quite a bit of experimenting before I was happy with my card: It looks a bit light in the photograph, but it's lovely in real life.  I've just received my order of card stock, including a pack of Baja Breeze, so that was my jumping off point.  I tried several different stamps before deciding on the Posy Punch set, as a lot of stamps didn't have enough impact in these colours, and I wanted to make a statement.  I've substituted Real Red for Poppy Parade as I don't have any ink in that colour. The base card is 5"x7", with a layer of Baja Breeze on top.  Then the bit that frustrates me:  I really, really need a 5"x7...
Read more

The Paper Players # 86

Image
Hello there!  I am a big fan of The Paper Players challenge blog and follow it avidly week by week (yes I spend a lot of time reading blogs!) and so finally I'm able to join in this week.  It's a colour challenge: Now here's the silly thing... when I saw these colours I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, but when I actually tried it, it didn't work!  So I played and played and had practically every stamp out that I own, and then in the end, this is what I made: The thing that's brilliant about these challenges is that they're helping me to learn about proportion, i.e. whether everything is to scale (you know what it's like when you have a tiny stamp that disappears on your card) and the way colours work together.  Years ago (yes, I'm quite old!) there was a brilliant book called Colour Me Beautiful which explained very cleverly about how to dress and keep colour and pattern in proportion.  It talked about main colours and accent c...
Read more