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.
It's a wonderful card for your anniversary and bless your hubby for saying he wouldn't have noticed the error on the 1st version. Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts.
ReplyDeleteA unique idea for a Valentines card, great fun, many thanks for sharing at Allsorts challenge.
ReplyDeleteB x
Your hourglass and sentiment pairing are perfect for both an anniversary and Valentine card; adding the shaker feature and you've elevated the impact to WOW! Definitely a card filled - and made - with love. Thank you for joining us in the Colour Hues and Inkspirational galleries.
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I think they are both so creative and I think the shaker card looks just fine. I don't think anyone would notice the flaws that you pointed out. So happy to have you joining us at Color Hues for our collaboration challenge.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary Cathy! Fabulous sentiment and I love the hour glass and how you added the sparkle and the second fixed version turned out fabulous too. Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Color Hues!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your wedding anniversary, these are such a creative pair of cards. Thanks for linking up at Cardz4Guyz and Color Hues. :)
ReplyDeletethis is such a great card for a life long partner!! Thank you for sharing this with us at MyTimeToCraft
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea...that sentiment along with a hourglas...YES!! Thanks for playing along with our masculine CLEAN & SIMPLE challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz!!
ReplyDeleteDeb Horst, DT #C4G365
This is so clever. Thanks for joining us at Cardz4guyz. Love Dawn x
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