Fortieth Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am invigilating this week but just in the afternoons. It is nice not having to rush to get up.

Two of our good friends celebrated their Ruby Wedding Anniversary at the weekend. This is the card I made for them.

I started by making the Z fold base from a piece of A4 black card. I scored the card and then cut off the top make the opposite fold. This way everything fits together. The patterned paper was in my stash. I used the Leafy Flourish dies from the John Next Door range to add some extra detail They were a great way of using up some Snippets. 

The heart was cut with the Heart of Hearts die fro Creative Expressions. The initials were cut with some Tonic dies. I used the  left over die cuts to put initials on the envelope I made for this card. 

I found this embellishment in some lace and ribbon I was given from someone who has stopped crafting. This did make me think about how much craft stuff I have. 

The numbers were cut with some X-Cut dies that I have had for a long time. 

The Happy Anniversary die is a Signature die. 

Here you can see the Z fold more clearly. 

I know they liked the card they sent me a message. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

I would like to enter the following challenges: 

The May Challenge at Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 352 at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge Week of May 14th 

Challenge 92 at the A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge blog

Challenge 390 at the Crafty Creations Challenge blog

Challenge 114 at Scrapy Land Challenges 

Challenge 16 at the Creative Crafter's Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Creative Artiste - Heart Wall Hanging

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend. Today we will be travelling back from our short break. I hope that the traffic is kind to us.

Being the first Friday of the month there is a new challenge starting on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog and the theme this time is Anything Goes. Our sponsor this time is Foilplay.

I decided to decorate a small heart wall hanging. I started by painting the heart with white Gesso. I gave it a couple of hearts. When it was dry I used some decoupage glue to attach some tissue paper. I attached it as one piece and I was so pleased that I had used the Gesso on the wood as it really showed up the design on the tissue paper. I sanded the edges of the shape to remove the excess tissue. 

As I said at the top of this post Foilplay is the sponsor this month if you click on the logo you will be taken to their store. It is worth checking out they stock a lot of well known brands. 

I used a Dreamees stamp for the sentiment I stamped it in read to match the ribbon (which came with the heart). I cut it out with the centre die from one of my Sue Wilson die sets. All the flowers I had in my stash it was nice to have a project to use them on I attached them with a gell glue. The final touch was to add some lace around the edge of the heart. 

Here is the heart in place hanging in my lounge. I was really pleased with how this turned out and I enjoyed making it. 

I would like to enter Challenge 327 add a butterfly at Crafty Catz Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie