Anniversary Card

I have been busy making cards all weekend...In our Family August Celebrations are almost like celebrating Christmas. Between all the anniversaries and birthdays I needed 17 cards. I will have a few blog post to share with you this week.

One of the favorite cards were the Anniversay cards. I used the DCWV Designer paper I have been hoarding a beautiful black & cream with whites, grays and a nice black flocking on several sheets in the pack.

Its called "La Creme",

I needed 3 cards so I used the bottom half of a 12x12 sheet to make the 3 cards I needed. I used a light golden tan from a neutrals card stock package. I either picked up at Michaels or Walmart years ago it seemed to be the perfect color to go with the yellow tan on the page. I also used cardstock from a package of Black I bought in the stationary section at Walmart to mate the designer paper. Again ,I am trying to use my stash as stated earlier in the year. I also cut 1" strips of the black to emboss with my textile folder in my Cuttlebug, I managed to emboss all three strips in one pass. I used a strip of the dp from the top section of the 12x12 sheet and cut it at 1 3/4" and used my SU scalloped border punch and then layered the black 1" strip on top. I then layered a piece of 1/4" picot vanilla ribbon on the top third of the strip of paper and then layered it on the flocked bottom of the designer paper.

The last thing I did was use my Cricut "Storybook" cartridge to make the sentiment background. I used the Cricut Design Studio (CDS) software to layer two of the same tag on top of each other and then stretching the shapes to get a shadow effect I wanted. The Lighter layer was a piece of the same Designer paper. I then Stamped the Mr&Mrs Sentiment from my taggers Dozen Stamp Set white my Jet Black StazOn Ink. I enlarged that area of the card to show you some of the detail. I hope you like it what do you think?

Until Later...Happy Stamping!