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

First 5 pages of Fraser's album (not neccesarily in order they will be in the album)

As with Sue's album, (see previous posts) this 12" album is to celebrate a landmark birthday, my little brother Fraser is 40 this month.

page 1 'Fraser is born'

details

PM parcel 12" paper
die-cuts from craft swap
buttons from stash
details on journal tag hidden for privacy

page 2 'Happy 40th!'

details

PM 12" stars paper
peel-offs & confetti from stash

Page 3 'Brothers'

details

Fraser, as a young baby photographed with Ian his older brother. Ian is wearing our Macdonald clan tie and kilt,
PM 12" stars paper
photo matted onto PM dark purple paper
PM tiny silver brads, holes punched with Big Bite cropodile
silver peel-offs from stash

Pages 4 & 5 Double Layout  'Fraser's wedding day, 7.8.99'

P4 ' Fraser marries Catherine'

Details

PM 12"  lilac floral paper
'Forever' tag from Posies scrapbook kit (from QVC)
various satin paper & card matts & glitter paper from stash
'Love' sentiment & number peel-offs from stash

p5 'with my little sisters'

my beautiful little sisters Mo and Anita, with our brother Fraser on his wedding day. Fraser is wearing our Macdonald tartan kilt.

Details

Co-ordinating PM floral paper to p4
photo matt from Posies scrapbook kit
journal tags printed from Debbie Moore Glitter & Glitz Magic Moments CD

Pages 5 to 7 of sue's 60th birthday album (1st 4 in previous post)

page 5 'CHILDHOOD' - 2 photos of Sue as a young girl, age unknown

Details

Tim Holtz 9" x 9" distressibles cardstock - At the Movies 0772
floral paper & dark olive satin paper layers from stash
Purple 12" x 12" backing paper from album kit from Lidl, birthday present last year, finally being used
pink sentiment from stash
'Memory' sentiment from Posies scrapbook kit bought from QVC
'Remember' chipboard sentiment from stash

p6 Prague 2000 - check out those sunglasses!

very simple page,
 just 3 photos
Vintage script 12" x 12" cardstock from stash
peel-offs from stash

p7 France, summer 2004

another very simple page, wanted the photos to be the main focus
top photo in my other brother's aprtment in Villefranche
bottom photo is Nice beach

both photos matted on aubergine satin cardstock from stash
12" x 12" 7Gypsies 'Avignon' backing paper
3D travel embellishments from stash