Love You Anniversary Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Earlier this month, my husband & I celebrated our 49th anniversary, of course I had to make him a special card. 

I have been having fun playing with Scappy Tails Craft Slimline Snow Globe die set, so I decided to pull it out to create my card for our anniversary.

I die cut the main frame die from the set four times from blue cardstock and two times from heart patterned paper. I layered two cardstock frames and one patterned paper frame together to create two decorated frames. One for the back and one for the front. I used the other dies included in the die set to assemble the snow globe as directed.

 I used the smaller of the oval panels included in the die set to create the centre spinner panel. To decorate the panel I added two hearts. I then added the "love" and "you" from Karen Burniston's Pop 'n Swap die set which I placed on each of the hearts.

 In between each of the hearts I added "49th" using the dies from Karen Burniston's Numbers die set. These were die cut from gold foil cardstock.

I placed my "Happy Anniversary" sentiment to the base of the snow globe, using Karen Burniston's Word Set 12 - Anniversary die set. 

To decorate the very top of the snow globe I added a bow using Spellbinders Christmas - Shopping Cart Holiday And Presents die set.

I created two centre panels exactly the same, sandwiching the twine that makes it spin between the panels. 

I kept the back fairly simple, added just the "XOXO" above the label, which gave me a place to write my personal greeting.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

It's Christmas Day already down here in Australia! I must have been a good girl this year as I did very well 😀

There are many of you who visit my blog regularly, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all so much for your support throughout the year. Hope you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas!

For my card today I created a Slimline Snow Globe Pop up Shaker card using dies from Scrappy Tails. The main Snow Globe portion of the card uses dies from the Slimline Snow Globe Pop-up die set and the Christmas Tree and presents are from the Slimline Christmas Tree Spinner Add-On die set that works with the Slimline Snow Globe Pop-up.

To create the shaker portion of the card I added acetate to two of the slimline snow globe frames and then adhered them together after placing foam tape around one of the frames and of course sequins and glitter.

For the sentiments on this card, I used Pinkfresh Studio's Perfect Sentiments: Holiday Hot Glimmer plate. I used the negative portion of the gold foil that is left over when foiling the sentiments with the Solid Hot Foil Plate to get the gold foil around the outside of the letters and the white letters.

To create the snow bank at the bottom of the card I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Borders die set.

Here is a look at my card when it has been shaken up and lying flat on my desk, so you can see the shaker effect.

For the back of my card I added a white panel, which is a left over piece from when I die cut a white Slimline Snow Globe Frame. I stamped a Christmas sentiment to this and also added another of the presents that I used on the front. 

There is also room here to add a personal greeting when I am ready to give it away.

Other Supplies:

Handwritten Holidays 2 - Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz - discontinued

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month it is time to introduce our new challenge hostess, which is Lynn Mc Auley.

Celebrate with Song -  I am asking that the CCEE Stampers use song lyrics from a holiday song (either secular or religious) as the sentiment on the front of their Christmas design. 

I recently received my order from Scrappy Tails Crafts of their Slimline Snow Globe Pop-up  die set and their add on die sets ... one of which is the snowman. So I decided to use that for today's challenge.

As you can see by the video above, the snowman spins around.

I found some pink snowflake patterned paper in my stash, so adhered that to some pink cardstock to die cut the main frame pieces for my snow globe. For something a little non tradition I decided to go with the colors pink and aqua/teal for my card and snowman.

I added the stamped sentiment "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" to the panel at the bottom of the card which is the challenge portion of this card. The sentiment is from a La La Land Crafts stamp set I purchased a few years ago.

I used Karen Burniston's Holiday Charms die set to add the snowflakes around the frame and sentiment.

This is the rear view of my card. For this card I decided to just create the back view of the snowman, but you could also have the snowman be the same on each side if you wanted. 

I added another Christmas sentiment to the back panel, leaving a little space to write a personal greeting. This sentiment is from the stamp set included in Classic Christmas Special Kit from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi