50th Anniversary

 

Good evening crafty friends.

Last year, John and I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary with some

dear friends, and our son and granddaughter who visited from London.

This is the card I made for John. The adorable image is a digi stamp by

Mo Manning. I coloured it with Promarkers and Copics. The background 

paper is from a sheet of exquisite hand-marbled wrapping paper. The '50s'

are cut from gold mirror card with a Cuttlebug Olivia die and the banner 

die is unnamed. All the layers have been matted with narrow gold mirror card.

Inside my card has been decorated with a punched border,

using a Martha Stewart PATP punch. The little hearts are

negatives. 

Challenges I Would Like To Enter :-

Craft Rocket Challenges #100 - 'Love/Valentine' (WINNER)

Crafty Friends #164 - 'Love/Romance'

Cut It Up #271 - 'Have A Heart'

Moving Along With The Times #151 - 'Numbers' (2nd entry)

Papercraft Challenges #91 - 'Hearts'

Thank you for visiting, and until next time,

Hugs,

Jennifer.  xx

Choo Choo

Good afternoon.

It is one year today since I last posted anything on my blog.

To say the least, the past 12 months have been tumultuous, with

many changes to my life, and that of my husband of almost 51 years, John.

I will not bore you with any details, except to say that John's health has been

in decline for some time now, and I am now officially his carer. Spare time

is in short supply, so I decided that I would take a break from blogging.

John will soon be 76, and I am not too far behind that (with some

health issues of my own). However, I feel that it may be time

 to get back into crafting and blogging. 

Recently a dear little boy we know celebrated his 5th birthday.

This is the card I made for him.

I used a very old Cuttlebug set of train dies to cut the engine and carriages from

snippets of navy blue and yellow cardstock. The yellow pieces were then glued 

into the 'windows'. Using some snippets of silver card from a paracetamol box,  

I attached the wheel centres. Many years ago I bought a sheet of  'track' 

peel off stickers, so that is what the little train is riding on.

A close-up look at the engine and one of the carriages. I used

a pale grey Promarker to add some smoke puffs.

Using a Cuttlebug die and snippets of navy blue and red cardstock, 

I cut two number 5s, and offset them to create a 'shadow' effect.

Challenges I would like to enter :-

Creative Fingers #248 - 'Anything Goes'

Daisy Chain #71 - 'Baby/kids'

Moving Along With The Times #151 - 'Numbers'

Snippets Playground #447 - 'Anything Goes'

Hopefully I will be back soon to show you another card, so until then, thank you for visiting.

Hugs,

Jennifer.  x