Happy Tuesday and an Anniversary card...

Hi, all!  Today, I thought I would show you the card I made to go with the photo mat I featured here a couple of days ago.  This card was made with a digi stamp designed by one of my fellow Outlawz teamies, Sandi Huggett who offers some of her fabulous digis to the entire membership free of charge!  If you'd like to see her designs and take advantage of her generosity, visit us at The Outlawz Challenges, become a member and look in the freebies tab. We host a different challenge each day of the week and offer some really cool prizes, with a great prize for one lucky person at the end of each month. Come check us out!

Anyway, back to my card. This pretty pitcher is graced by a bunch of beautiful pansies, one of my favorite flowers. I decided to be a little adventurous and made a gate-fold card this time. As I mentioned on the post for the signature mat, my friends celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary on the 26th of this month so I wanted to make a special card for them. Their wedding colors were dark yellow and white (eek!) but I just couldn't make myself use that color scheme so I included a bit of the dark yellow on the pansies. My niece, who is a cake decorator, recreated their wedding cake, complete with yellow roses, so they had plenty of that color to remind them of their wedding day. I love purple in nearly any shade and decided to use it as a contrasting color to the yellow. Here's how the card turned out. You can click on the individual pics to enlarge them.

The closed card is 6" square and opened up, it's approximately 14 1/2"! The image is colored with Copics and coated with a couple of layers of Diamond Glaze to make it shiny like hand-painted glazed porcelain. I also added an extra layer of the glaze over the pansies to raise them and add texture. The card base is Core'dinations cardstock in an almost dusty plum color with the mats, also Core'dinations, a shade or two lighter. The dp is from my stash but I think it's an older pattern from K and Company. I found the ribbon in Michael's dollar bin and the green mini ric rac came from Jo-Ann. I cut a paper doily in half and folded the cut end over to give the appearance of a tabletop lace doily. The little purple flowers are Flora Doodles and the purple pearls are from Recollections. I used Martha Stewart's Eyelet Lace Punch Around the Page set to create the inside mat. The Happy Anniversary greeting is by Stampendous and is stamped on white smooth cardstock, layered over gold glitter and medium purple cardstock and popped up to add dimension. Not shown in the pictures, I stamped the inside mat with a passage from Corinthians13:13 that says, "There are three things that last... faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. I thought this sentiment was appropriate for a couple who is in as much love today as they were 33 years ago.

Don't forget to check out Sandi Huggett's free digi stamps, as well as some other beautiful ones from Anne Fenton (another of my Outlawz teamies) on the challenge site. These two ladies are so sweet to share their talents with us and they are constantly changing out and adding new images.

Thanks for stopping by today. As always, I love reading your comments. I have an engagement tonight but if I get home in time to type up the post, there will be another card tomorrow for your viewing pleasure. Until then....

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Tea Time Birthday

Good day, everybody! I hope that you all have had a lovely Father's Day and that you've been able to spend quality time with the special men in your lives. As my son lives nearly 500 miles away, I wasn't able to be with him to celebrate his special day but I did spend a few hours yesterday with my wonderful brother-in-law, both of his sons as well as their significant others (wife and girlfriend). You may recall that I traveled to Austin last month to attend the wedding of the older nephew. I am making a wedding album for the newlyweds as my wedding gift and they brought me a disk with all of their wedding photos on it. So the time has come to begin working on that sizable project. I have never undertaken such a large and important project before so I'm just a little nervous about it. I am determined, however, so I'm just going to take my time and do it right.

Okay, back to the subject at hand.  I have a card to show you today using one of the gorgeous digi stamps of Sandi Huggett.  Sandi offered this tea pot and cup and saucer as free images to the members of The Outlawz.  I knew immediately when I saw them that I had to have them and I had an instant image in my mind what I would create with them.  Thank you, Anne!  Well, I have made 3 cards with them so far but I'm only showing you one of them.  I'll save the others for later when I might not have time to make something new.

The fuschia blossoms on these pieces are just beautiful and were so much fun to color. If you have never seen these delicate flowers in person you should look them up on the internet. They are grown in a wide variety of colors and put on a spectacular show when planted in groups. I would love to have a real tea set that looks just like this one!

This card measures 5 1/2" square. I distressed the papers on the front of the card to give it that shabby chic look. I also coated the teapot and cup and saucer with Diamond Glaze to give it the appearance of glazed china. The moss green card base is Core'dinations and the silver foil cardstock I used for the mats is from American Crafts. The dp is from K and Company's Best of Brenda Walton stack. I colored the images with Copics, fussy cut them and layered them onto the card with pop dots. The paper doily and ribbons were purchased from Michael's. The stamps I used are by Inkadinkado and Studio G. Cotton lace is from Jo-Ann. The metal corner embellishment is by a coompany called Accent Factory and Trims Company and is sold in sets of 4 or 8 under the name "Embellish It!" The pearl heart pin, to which I added a pink Swarovski crystal and pink Swarovski glass pearl, as well as the tiny little maple leaf bling were in some blog candy I received from my friend, Kay. The paper lace strip on the inside is from my stash.  I can't remember the manufacturer but I think it was probably K and Company. It originally came on a card with 3 different colors and styles of paper lace ribbon.

So there you have it. I hope you have enjoyed seeing one of my latest creations. Come join us at The Outlawz if you'd like to get Sandi's free digi images. She has some beautiful ones! I hope the remainder of your weekend is awesome and that the coming week brings you lots of creative time.

Happy crafting!
Anniebee