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

Been busy this week made 1 tag & 10 cards

For a DC scrapbook forum swap I made 1 tag and 2 cards, one for the swap partner and the other one left blank for them to send to someone else.

Tag Details

Ranger distress inks used throughout
Tattered Rose for background
Shabby Shutters for floral sprig border stamp
Fired brick for swallows stamp
tag & peach satin ribbon from stash

This is the card I gave my swap partner Mabel
poppy & daisy decoupage, papers and A6 card all from stash

this is the card I sent Mabel to give to someone else
Craft Creations nasturtiums decoupage
paper, card & 5" square card all from stash

I sent this card to my cat loving aunt who is very poorly

PM tiny flower brads & sentiment from Mabel's swap,

cat pyramage from a craft CD

 satin paper & A6 card all from stash

This card was sent to my July DC A5 godybag swap partner Carmen (mimosa48)
poppy & daisy decoupage, paper & 5" square card from stash
sentiment from Mabel's swap

I made this card for my niece Grace for her 5th birthday

Craft Creations doll decoupage

PM Creative Tones Amethyst Infusion background paper

PM 'Heather' Capsule Collection adhesive stones

PM Accent stickers

satin & mirror card & 5" square card all from stash

I sent this lilac card to a friend for her 40th birthday

PM A6 lilac card

sentiment from Mabel's swap

friendship decoupage, satin card, polkadot paper, ribbon & bow from stash

I made this gardening card for our dear friend Ted's 85th birthday

PM leaf brads

Anita's words & letters peel-offs

garden decoupage, gingham paper & 5" card all from stash

I made this card for a friend's birthday

Craft Creations bath decoupage

holographic card, peel-offs, clear adhesive gems & A6 card all from stash

I made this card for a friend's birthday

garden decoupage, textured paper, gems & 5" card all from stash

Golden wedding card, sentiment not added yet

Craft Creations decoupage,
grey card, gold holographic card, gold metallic flowers and gold glitter A5 card all from stash

I really enjoyed my busy crafting week, especially as I wasn't too well and the crafting helped take my mind off it and relaxed me, thankyou for any comments you may leave.

Purple floral decoupage card and 4 cards made whilst on holiday in June

After all the time taken to finish the 2 scrap albums for my family last month, I've returned to cardmaking but not had time to upload any cards until today. I've also been away on an amazing weekend retreat and a week in Devon in June. I've come back refreshed and with some lovely new stash from the Crafty Devils warehouse in Barnstaple, North Devon. Also at Dartington Crystal, in Great Torrington, the Edinburgh Woollen Mill outlet there has a fill a box scheme similar to the Papermill offer, it came in A5 and A4. I chose A4 and crammed my plastic folder with 104 papers and cardstock. Pearlised, embossed, foiled, gingham, pastels, rich colours, textured, musical scores etc, so many gorgeous designs, all for £5.50, thats about 5p per A4 sheet!

card made today, no sentiment yet

floral decoupage
lilac Wild Rose Studio 'In Love with Japan' 6" x 6" paper
PM Capsule Collection 'Heather' gems
purple holographic card and A4 card from stash

4 cards made on holiday, it was very wet in North Devon in late June.

1. Congratulations card for my son Dan. He got a first and three 2:1's in his end of year 1, law degree exams, so proud of him.

all elements of this card are from my stash, origin unknown

2. Best wishes card for Carrie Headteacher who is leaving

mouse decoupage, gingham paper & green pearlised paper & 5" square card  all from stash

3. anniversary card

bamboo paper from wild Rose Studio, 'In love with Japan', 6" paper pack
decoupage, holographic card, gems, sentiment and 5" card all from stash

4. best wishes card

bird/floral decoupage
best wishes sentiment from Craft Creatives
background paper, holographic card, gems and 5" card all from stash

silver wedding card made this week

Crafters Companion cake decoupage
Anita's Stickers flowers, number & sentiment peel-offs
pink embossed paper, pink gingham card and silver foiled embossed A5 card (A4 folded in half), all from Papermill fill a  box offer
gems from stash