An Autumn Anniversary - CASology and CAS-ual Fridays

Well, it seems like forever since I've played along in a challenge!  I finally had a little time to spend at my craft table today so I created a card for 2 challenges.

CASology - the Cue Card is Autumn

CAS-ual Fridays - CFC115: Fall Colors & a Leaf

Here is my take on both challenges.

 

I found this leaf on our front lawn late last summer and thought it was beautiful.  It's extremely fragile and thin.

I had no idea what I would do with it, until just a few days ago when I saw the challenge theme at CAS-ual Fridays.  Use a leaf?  Of course!

Since this leaf would never survive the postal service, I knew I wanted to use it on a card that I would deliver in person.  What better recipient than my husband?  Our Wedding Anniversary is coming up in a few days.  So....I actually get to keep my lacy leaf card.  It's a win-win situation, don't you think?

Anyway.  In order to protect the leaf AND cover as little of it as possible, I used a piece of clear card stock (acetate) over the leaf.  When I adhered the sentiment panel, I used scor-tape beneath that area of the acetate to adhere it all to my card base.  By the way, fragile leaves and static-y acetate are bit challenging to work with.  Trust me.

Thanks so much for taking a look!

Supply list ~
card stock: crushed curry, cajun craze (SU), clear card stock (Heartfelt Creations)
ink: onyx black versafine
stamps: simple sentiments (PTI)
other: brights candy dots (SU), leaf from my lawn

Together Forever - And a brand new challenge!

Hey!  There's a brand new sketch challenge in blogland.  The creator is our super talented "boss" over at Dynamic Duos, Lesley Croghan.  I'm so excited for her!  I love sketch challenges, so I've been waiting for Seize The Sketch - STS #1 to post this first challenge.  Take a look.

My card ~

I used some negative and positive die cuts from PTI's heart border die for the diagonal pieces of the sketch.  Then layered the butterfly die cuts in the same colors, after heat embossing my sentiment.  I worked all of my die cuts and embellishments around the word "Memories" in the bottom corner of this piece of patterned paper.  It fits so well with the wedding anniversary theme of my card.
Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supply list ~
Card stock: pistachio pudding, early espresso (SU)
Ink: versamark
Stamps: love & marriage (PTI)
Patterned paper: printery 6 x 6 pad (Prima)
Other: heart border die (PTI), early espresso embossing powder, neutrals candy dots (SU), thread, sewing machine

An Anniversary Gift Set

Hi, this will be a short post.  I completed a customer order today for a couple who will soon be celebrating their first wedding anniversary.  A few of you may remember an altered teacup that I created last spring for my sister.  One of my customers asked for one, along with coordinating anniversary cards.  This is what I created today.

I pulled the colors for my cards from the colors on the teacup.  This was such a fun project to make.  A little change of pace for me.  I've gotta' get going.  Thanks so much for taking a look!

Together Forever...our Anniversary

I'm sharing a very special card today.  This one warms my heart...for several reasons.  Tomorrow (Monday) my husband and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary.  Oh my.  Thirty-five years!  I love him even more now, than I did on our wedding day.  We've been through a lot together, and it's made us stronger.

Anyway, I just love how this card turned out!  I had an idea a few days ago when I was at work...yea, I wanted to go home right away and stamp!  I wanted to use a frame die over a copy of one of our wedding photos.  This PTI die gives the look of an old Polaroid photo.  This card is the result of that idea.  It worked out just as I'd hoped :)

I'm playing along in 2 challenges with this card.

Unscripted Sketches #178

Just Us Girls #156

My card ~

I used photo paper to cut the frame, then cut another frame out of white cardstock and glued them together.  This gave me a more substantial frame that I could pop up on foam tape.  The stamps that I used for the date, below the photo, are from a set called Calender Stamp set.  It's my first purchase from the Precious Remembrance Shop.  The wording and numbers were just the right size for this project.

In the closeup photos you can see some of the detail from the impression plate I used on the kraft cardstock.

I added some matting, a couple more stamped sentiments and a piece of ribbon (the ribbon is a new one from Stampin' Up!) and my card was complete.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog.  It means a lot to me...and so do your comments.  Truly.

Supplies:

card stock: midnight muse (SU), white, kraft (PTI)

stamps: calender stamp set (Precious Remembrance Shop)

ink: jet black staz-on and onyx black versafine

other: photo paper (Kodak), sunrise impression plate (PTI), fabulous frames die (PTI), midnight muse stitched satin ribbon (SU)