Happy Anniversary

My husband and I celebrated our 22nd Wedding Anniversary on Friday. We had a nice dinner out together. Here is the card I made him. I didn't want it too frilly or feminine. The card is a standard 4 1/4' X 5 1/2". The patterned paper is from the Best of K & Company paper stack that I picked up at Joanns. The hearts were cut from the Wedding Solutions cartridge. I used a cream card stock for the card base, a brown mat and then the patterned paper with each mat cut 1/8" of an inch smaller than the previous layer. I inked the edges of the patterned paper with some Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and used the same ink to stamp the Happy Anniversary sentiment. The ribbon is some sheer brown ribbon I had in my stash.

My Favorite Color

I made this card for a challenge on the My Pink Stamper blog. A lot of folks including her are snowed and iced in this weekend. So Robyn has posted a couple of challenges on her blog. This card is for the first one. The challenge was to use your favorite color and black and make a project. Purple is one of my favorite colors so I decided to use that. My card base is 4 1/2" X 6 and is some purple bazzill card stock I had on hand. The black mat is cut at 4 1/4" X 5 3/4" and is Die Cuts With A View card stock. The green patterned paper is from a K & Company super pack that I got at Joann's this morning and is cut at 4" x 5 1/2".  I used A Child's Year Cricut cartridge to cut the little girl with the umbrella. I chose that cut because it went with the kind of weather we are having here today. I cut the girl and the shadow at 3". The Just a Note is cut at 2' and is from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge. Since the phrases don't have a shadow feature I just cut the phrase twice and offset it slightly to give a shadow effect. The flowers are Prima flowers that I held together with flower shaped brade and the ribbon is some I bought at Michaels. I used foam tape to adhere the girl and the phrase and a glue dot to adhere the flower.