Happy Anniversary--soft and sweet!

I wanted to share an anniversary card that I recently created for a swap card in one of my groups. When I went to create this card, I realized that Anniversary sentiments are ones that I severely lacking in my giant stamp collection! The only ‘Happy Anniversary’ that I could find came from the Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set. It is actually a set that I refer to beginner stampers because it has a little bit of everything in it. The sentiments are nice size can fit in many of our punches. This is important to our newer customers because we have not had a die cutting machine to offer them for the past year. So stamp sets that have many punch options are a go to for me!

I am really loving the simplicity and impact that a white card and base can make. Keeping this white gave this card a touch of elegance, especially with the gold and bronze accents used on this card.

I ran the front panel of this card through the Tasteful Textile 3D folder, it really should be a must have in your craft room! I then cut a 2 inch circle out so that when I placed this layer on the card front it would make the embossing folder stand out even more by seeing the contrast of solid paper behind the window.

I once again reached for the Forever Fern bundle to embellish this card. I cut one of the larger ferns out of the Bronze Foil sheets and stamped two of the images, both in Just Jade ink, one on Whisper White and one on Just Jade card stock.

Happy Anniversary is embossed in gold and I added in a few of the Gold Glitter Dots. The twine is from some long ago kit that I found laying around! I will admit, I am a scraps of this and that hoarder! This was the perfect find for this card!

You could easily swap this sentiment out for Happy Birthday, Thinking of You, Hello or anything really! The card design is timeless.

Around the World on Wednesday--Case the Designer!

For our Around the World on Wednesday blog hop we are casing another designer from the hop and I am lucky enough to CASE Annette Ball from Stampin’ With the Bees. I thought this was such a fun and unique idea!

This is a card that Annette created in June and as soon as I saw it, I thought it would be fun to CASE featuring the Forever Fern bundle in the new Catalogue. I loved the circle cut out from the front of the card that allows for the peek-a-boo look into the inside.

I have included a link so you can go directly to Annette’s Blog to check out her original post!

This is my take on Annette’s card—I added another panel to the front as it is easy to cut two circles out at once on our die cutting machine. I popped the front layer up on Dimensionals.

The Forever Fern bundle (pg 110) includes 14 dies in the set. I used the largest fern die on some Silver Foil Paper. I stamped out two of the smaller ferns in Blushing Bride ink on the same color card stock and die cut those. The fern image on the inside, which you get to see through the peek-a-boo window, is stamped in Old Olive. The sentiment is from Lovely You bundle (pg 22) and is stamped in Smoky Slate. I used the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch with my paper cut to 1 inch, which is the largest width you can use on this versatile punch. The ribbon is from the Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack. Some Rhinestone Basic Jewels just added a bit of sparkle.

Please visit Tricia Butts next to see who she is CASEing and her fabulous project! Thanks for hoping along with us and please feel free to leave a comment!