Thank You

Regular readers may remember we celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary recently.

Here is the card I made for hubby 

and here is the card he made an extra effort to get out amongst 'all the people' and get me 

and here is the card he picked for Valentines Day

I think I will keep him ..... what do you think?

His family thoroughly surprised us with some beautiful gifts & flowers

Anyway, I thought that the extra effort his family went to for our Anniversary deserved an extra special 'Thank You' so I made two cards for them - one for the Sister-in-Law & Family and one for the Brother-in-Law & family

I had another go at making my own watercolour backgrounds - smooshing 3 different colour inks and then running through Cuttlebug embossing folders and inking raised bits and around edges.  'Thank You' die cut three times and sentiment stamped in Staz On Ganache.  Cardfront mounted to Blue Cardstock.

Quite please with the way these turned out.

Linking with:

Cut it up - #250 - April Showers bring May Flowers

Make the Cards Challenge - #53 ink blended background 

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.

A Touch of Red

Here are 2 cards from my recent swaps with my Card Swap Group - A Touch of Red and an Open Swap.

I didn't read the brief correctly for the 'A Touch of Red' and made just a 'Red & White' card   DOH!

But then I realised that it would be OK, as I could use it for the 'Open Theme' swap - winner winner!

So here are my cards.

CARD #1

White cardfront embossed with Provo Craft 'birthday' folder (one of the first embossing folders I got when I bought the Cuttlebug back in 2008!)  'happy' & 'birthday' sponged red to highlight.  Balloon die cut 3 times from red cardstock, layered then attached to cardfront.  Red gems to finish off, then cardfront mounted to Red Leathergrain card base.

CARD #2

White cardfront, run through Cuttlebug with Spellbinders M-bossabilities folder ES-014.  'hello' die cut 3 times from red cardstock & layered and added to cardfront.  Gem brad used to attached red paper flower, then cardfront mounted to white cardbase.

Linking with:

CARD#2 - Perfectly CAS: #25 - Die Cuts

CARD#1 - Make the Cards Challenge: #50 - Embossing Folder

Stay safe everyone!  Tell your family & friends you love them!