Friday 26 June 2009

27th Anniversary


Today my hubby Andrew and I have been married for 27 years. It doesn't seem like it though as the time has simply flown by since we had our 2 daughters. Claire is now 20 and Sarah is 18 and sometimes it seems like it's only yesterday that they were little.
I made this card for Andrew to celebrate. It's not too fussy as he's not keen on anything too frilly.

The heart was cut out from some paper I decorated. I scribbled on watercolour paper in several colours of leafing pen (copper, gold and red shimmer). I then painted the paper with watercolour paints in deep red and pink. When it was dry, I rubbed a baby wipe over the top to remove the paint from the gilded areas. I then stamped on a design made from 9 squares chosen from a set of Magenta cling stamps in black Memories dye ink. Please note that you cannot use solvent ink such as StazOn for this as it takes off the gold leafing.

I then stamped the same 9 square design on white card in the black ink. I used a 12cm square and trimmed the edges with deckle scissors. I stamped a border of squares round the edges of a deep red 15cm square card.

To finish, I edged the heart with the gold leafing pen and added a greeting and a brass stamping in antique copper which I glued in place with Diamond Glaze.

7 comments:

Siobhan Brignull said...

its very classy fliss, and a Happy Anniversary to you.

Sandra said...

Great card Fliss,Happy Anniversary
Sandra xx

cheryl said...

this is beatuiful hun happy anniversary hun love cheryl xxxxxxxx

Rose said...

Gorgeous card Fliss, lovely colours, happy anniversary, love Rose xx

Anonymous said...

Beautiful card Fliss, great techniques! x

Deborah said...

Congratulations, Fliss and Andrew! Wonderful card too.

Anne Chilvers said...

Fantastic !