It's that time of year again :)
Our 43rd Wedding Anniversary on 13th February and tomorrow is Valentines Day.
I designed the card in Word for the layout - Text sentiment & an hourglass image from pngWing - which was printed onto gloss cardstock with a laser printer.
I glued down some 'GORGEOUS' sprinkles I received in my Secret Santa Swap for CraftMad Swappers as the 'sands of time' - the little hearts are just perfect! As soon as I saw them, I knew I was going to incorporate them into a card. The white cardfront was then attached to a Kraft cardbase with foam tape.
The Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge this time round is 'clean and simple' and the Allsorts Challenge calls for romance or music.
The challenge over on Inkspiration is in collaboration with Color Hues Challenge using pink & red. Now, I never thought that I would make a card for Mr Fixit using 'pink & red' ... but I think the subtle pink & red tones work! The red foil 'I Love You' and the light pink & dark pink hearts in the sprinkles adds just enough colour to an otherwise 'all gold' card.
My Time to Craft asks us to use a theme of 'hearts'.
Linking with the following challenges:
Now, this is where I get honest, the above card is the second version, you see, I had great plans to turn this into
a shaker card.
In the first version, I cut the inside of the hourglass away, added 3d
foam tabs behind to make a pocket, then added the 'sprinkles', then
attached it to the cardbase. You guessed, it ..... I forgot to add the
acetate! DOH! I had sprinkles everywhere!
So then I peeled off the foam, attached the acetate, then added back the foam and the sprinkles and attached it to a white base ... but it was a bit crooked and there was a misalignment; you could see the hourglass printed underneath .... and I mangled up the edges of the foil when I cut the aperture out... AND I spied a rogue triangle piece in the shaker area..... at that point I decided to do the card again and produced the card you see above.
Here is the first version of the card .... complete with crooked placement and the rogue 'triangle' piece in the shaker area.
I showed Mr Fixit the first version .......... he did say he liked the idea of the 'shaker card' and wouldn't have noticed the rough edges, nor the misalignment, nor the rogue triangle .....
Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
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