Hello friends! I hope you’re having a great week! I must be really wishing for flowers as this seems to be my theme this week!…along with watercolor and heat embossing! LOL!
Today I wanted to share a card I’ve made for my parent’s anniversary:
As you can see from the card itself, my parents have been married for 55 years. So when I saw this Simon Says Stamp LE Valentine 2020 card kit, I knew that this would be a great way to start using the kit immediately! (This card kit is still available as of this posting, but I think it’s going soon!)
I actually really didn’t know what direction I was going to go with this anniversary card and I just started pulling things out and swatching different items to see what I wanted to do. I sampled the stencil with the metallic paste from the kit and really liked it, but when I pulled out my copper metallic mirror cardstock, I decided to heat emboss over the stencil with the same copper EP that I used on the sentiment for this card.
I’ve also cut out the numbers with the copper metallic mirror cardstock along with the layer behind some of the papers from the card kit. I’ve added another heart strip of the papers from the kit at the top and used one of the butterflies from the kit to go over the piece of lace I’ve added from my stash. The layers were all attached over an A2 sized top folding card base. Lastly, I added some white hearts that were actually from a different card kit. LOL!
I wanted to share a closer look at the flower. The stamp set in that card kit is so stunning! I’ve white heat embossed the flower and leaves over some watercolor paper and then used my Clean Color Real Brush markers to color it with. I’ve used some foam tape to pop up the flower over the stenciled heat embossed piece that was cut out with a circle die and attached to the card front.
You can see the shimmer over the butterfly wings that I’ve covered with a glitter brush pen. I only glued the center of the butterfly so that I could pop out the wings a bit.
Although this card looks a bit simple, there were a few steps to the stenciling and heat embossing some of the elements.
My parents commented how pretty it was, so I’m glad they liked it!
I hope you like it too! Please be sure to come back to visit my blog this Saturday as there will be a new challenge to share as well as a special blog hop! Hope to see you there! Thanks so much for stopping in and I’ll see you soon!
Challenges:
- Simon Says Stamp Wednsday – Anything Goes (Instagram: #ssswchallenge)
- QKR Stampede – #382 Anything Goes
- Allsorts – Take Flight
- Creative Fingers – #178 Anything Goes
- Watercooler Wednesday – WWC256 All About Occasions
- Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #124 Anything Goes
Stamped Smiles 