Anniversary Card

Running a bit behind on blog posting again..my old laptop has died, motherboard fried so it's off for data rescue at the mo, so no I'm starting over with a new laptop and have lost all the photos of projects I was going to share :(   Here's the card I made my boyfriend for our 5 year anniversary at the end of March...

Been waiting to use this Tatty Teddy stamp for ages and this seemed the perfect occasion to ink it up. Instead of colouring the hearts in I decided to heat emboss them with red powder instead. For the background I embossed white card but then flipped it over so the card had a debossed effect, which is really effective with this embossing folder. Even managed to get turquoise (my fave colour) involved with the glittery turquoise card I used for the main card body.    

Seeing Double!

This weeks Crafty Creations Challenge is 'Seeing Double'... can you believe this is challenge #128! Can't believe it's been so long since I left the design team there!

So my card this week is actually an order (for mum again) for some friend's that are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary at the end of the month... all I had as a specific detail to include was their wedding photo.. which I received as a scanned copy of a scanned copy so not great quality by time I tried to print it out. In the end i managed to Photoshop it to good enough quality to get decent printouts where I could use each of their heads on the card.

My doubles for this challenge are: 2 gold bows, 2 die cut scalloped heart frames and 2 die cut swirl corner pieces.
The corners, frames and background were made using my BigShot (yes it's still my obsession after my sewing machine lol), for the background I rubbed a gold inkpad over it to catch the embossed sections. I love the gold hearts ribbon, nice little extra that I found whilst rummaging the local fabric shop again the other week.