I almost forgot that today’s a blog post day! I’ve had a busy but enjoyable weekend with my family and wasn’t online at all yesterday, when I normally would have written the post for today.
Today is my husband’s parents’ wedding anniversary, so today’s card is the one that my family sent them. My in-laws aren’t the type of people who typically go for a lot of hearts and flowers and mushy sentimental type stuff, so it’s sometimes difficult coming up with ideas for them. I decided to finally put to use a covered bridge image that I’d stamped several years ago when Splitcoaststampers was recruiting members to create index cards for the Stampin’ Up stamp set galleries. You can click here to see this image in its original form. I took it off of the blush mat, colored it with watercolor pencils and blender pens, and gave it a new double mat.
Then I decided to get a little creative with the card fold for something different. I think this might be called a “z fold”; I’m honestly not sure. Basically you take a 4.25″ x 11″ piece of cardstock, score it at 5.5″ and fold it into a regular A2 card size. Score the front side of it again at 2.75″. Fold that in the opposite direction from the first fold, so that what was originally the outside edge of the card touches the folded outer edge of the card. Adhere the focal point to that half-size card front, being careful so your adhesive doesn’t stick to the inside back of the card.
The “Happy Anniversary” sentiment is stamped on the inside of the card, and I was careful when I signed the card on behalf of our family to make sure the writing wouldn’t show around the bridge image panel when the card was closed.
When I was talking on the phone with my mother-in-law today, she joked, “49 years… and we haven’t killed each other yet!” I hope that she and my father-in-law enjoy many more years together.
Supplies:
Stamps: Changing Seasons, Hugs & Wishes (SU)
Cardstock: Naturals White, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red (SU)
Ink: Going Gray (SU)
Other: watercolor pencils, blender pens (SU)
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