You (my dear sweet husband) Are the Best!

I saved this card for today because the sentiment is perfect.  Today is my 10th wedding anniversary to the most fabulous man on the planet (not counting my dad).

I can't believe it's been ten years since I said I do to Matt on the ice in between periods of the hockey game.  Tonight, we'll celebrate back (sort of) at the scene of the crime.  In the same jerseys we wore in all our wedding pictures.  Those jerseys have gotten a lot of wear and still mean the world to me.

It's hard to believe it's been ten years already.  It seems like just yesterday, but it also feels like we've been married for so much longer than 10 years.  He tells me the same thing.  I guess it was really meant to be.  I'm not saying it's been easy.  We've been through a lot of really difficult times in the past ten years, but I wouldn't trade a minute of it.  I really feel blessed to be his wife

So this card was perfect for today because he really is the best.  It also came together so easily with those Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Tim Holtz Blueprints stamps.  I used the large Postage Stamp die from Simon Says Stamp to cut out the image.  I found several sheets of paper in the Echo Park Paper 6x6 Note to Self pad that I liked.  I cut the blue polka dot to 4 by 5.25 to leave a frame of white.  I added a strip of the striped paper and smaller strip of the blue ledger for a little interest.  I then adhered my die cut piece to finish it off.

So that's it for today.  I'm off to celebrate ten years with the best.

 

Time to Celebrate with Mojo Monday

So, as I mentioned before, I stamped out all of the Tim Holtz Simon Says Stamp Stamptember exclusive blueprints stamps and watercolored them all with Distress Ink.  So then I just had to finish putting the cards together.  Easy peasy, right?  Well, no.  I needed some inspiration for the layout.  Thankfully, there are couple of fabulous weekly sketch blogs.  Today, Mojo Monday, sketch #364 came to my rescue.  Go check it out here. 

This card came together quickly after I saw the sketch.  I used the polka dot paper from the Echo Park 6x6 paper pad Note to Self cut to the same size as the card base.  I found a coordinating pattern that I liked.  I used the postage stamp dies from Simon Says Stamp to cut out both my stamped image and a square from the paper.  For my stamped image, though, I didn't have the right size frame in the die pack.  No problem.  I made my first cut lining up where I wanted the bottom to be with the bottom of the stamp.  I then moved my piece to line up were I wanted the top to be and cut again, getting a smaller rectangle by making two cuts than the die would normally produce.

I fished a button out of my stash and finished it off with some crochet thread.  It seems a little busy to me.  I'm not really sure I like it, but it's good enough as a reminder that today is a big day to celebrate.  My parents are celebrating their 51st wedding anniversary today.  Love you Mom and Dad!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my Mom's birthday so it's only fitting that I post a birthday card.  Now this is not the card I'm giving her, but it is a birthday card.  I had this idea for the card and it didn't really turn out the way I had pictured in my head.  I loved the background technique that I saw on the Onlinecardclasses class Stretch Your Stamps 2 where Kristina Werner made the most amazing background with a heat embossed background and some watercolors.  It was so amazing and my version, well, it's not.  I used the cutest background stamp from Impression Obsession called Sketchy Flowers with some Versamark and clear embossing powder.  I then used some Distress Ink markers to watercolor in the flowers and the background.  I'm just not in love with it, but often these cards grow on me after time.  So I used my Simon Says Stamp Postage Stamp dies to cut a white background with the largest and then the next size down on my background stamp panel.  I layered them on an orange card base.  For the sentiment, I pulled out the Lawn Fawn Chit Chat stamp set and stamped the cute birds in Momento ink then colored with copics.  I stamped out the Happy Birthday set with some Orange Peel Simon Says Stamp ink and then added them all to the card with some pop dots.