TODAY IS OUR 27th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY & ANDY's 50th BIRTHDAY!

On a blustery September 22nd 1984 at 2.30pm, at St John the Baptist Church in Alresford, Hampshire I married my husband Andy, on his 24th birthday. I have made a double layout of the day, I made it last year before I had my blog but on this our 27th wedding anniversary & his 51st birthday I'd like to share these layouts with you.

               An unashamedly ornate and romantic layout of our wedding day in 1984

12 x 12 PM gold foiled cardstock, layered photos, Making memories mottos, heart gems, heart brad and red adhesive pearls.

`Our Going Away OutFits`, an unashamedly romantic LO

backing paper is 12 x 12 chocolate coloured engineering design
photo and journalling matted and layered on blue and red paper
2 red gems are the circles, on Anita`s silver peel-off flourishes
3 tiny PM red flower brads attach 2 Posies sentiment tags to the LO
2 red PM heart brads and a 3D embellishment on another layered matt.
a donated blue flourish over the photo
LO also embellished with silver flowers from Anita`s peel-offs, adhesive heart gems and felt hearts.

Here are the cards I made for Andy for today

A Country Companions  anniversary card embellished with red heart gems & glittered paper ribbon.

Andy is mad on bike's and has a Honda VFR750 red sports bike, so I thought this decoupage would be perfect, I embellished the card with blue holographic card, printed sentiments & peel-off letters. The backing paper is from the Forever Friends 'The Good Life' Retro Paper Collection.

Happy 27th anniversary and happy 51st Andy, you are the love of my life, so supportive and hard-working and I hope we have many, many more happy years of marriage to look forward to, Fi xx

Mark & Emily's wedding card - for 17th September

On Saturday 17th September, my hubby Andy's good friend, workmate  and fishing buddy Mark is getting married to Emily, we are going to their wedding. I made this A5 card for them. I was unsure whether to make or buy a card, (shocking I know, just the thought!) as they are a young couple and I wasn't sure I could make a card suitable for them, but Andy reassured me that they will like it, hope they do.

the idea for their card started with the wedding topper, using co-ordinating  colours to matt and layer and the card grew from there. I used purple card, gold pearl paper, lilac pearl paper, a wedding day 6" x 6" backing paper, I added sentiments from another 6" x 6"wedding day paper & finished off the card with a lilac flower & ribbon recycled from a wedding invitation & a chipboard topper. I decorated the inside of the card with the same lilac pearl paper and added the front of their wedding invitation (not shown).

My SIL's wedding card, and 4 other cards made this week

Today my dear sister-in-law Rachel marries Tony at 2pm, I am her witness as they sign the wedding register. The sun is shining for them both today and I hope it stays that way  and that they have a lifetime of love, happiness and their dreams coming true, as htey start their new life together as husband and wife. I wish them nothing but the best that life has to offer.

I made them a HouseMouse decoupage card and a matching envelope.

The decoupage is layered on pink and silver foiled paper,  onto a Kanban pink & silver A4 sheet.
Then mounted onto a silver A5 foil card. the card is embellished with silver heart ribbon and peel-offs to personalise the card. the insert (unseen) is printed off from the Crafters copanion Rose Fairy CDRom, this same CDRom was used to decorate the envelope, along pink and silver Kanban backing paper, to co-ordinate with the card.

This Thursday Carrie's frined Jasmine was 16, she is mad on dogs, this is her card

I used PM 'Verde' Capsule Collection gems, all other elements were from my stash

Here are 4 anniversary cards made for DC craft forum friends.

the first 2 cards both use PM 'Verde' Capsule Collection gems, all other elemtns are from my stash.

This next card includes Poundland bargains - the large gem and glittered paper flower

this final card for this week card was made from elements from my stash