Happy Anniversary

The anniversary card I  made for my husband for our 34th wedding anniversary today.

I  started with some heavyweight white cardstock to create my card base. I then cut some Kraft cardstock to 4" X 5 1/4". I rounded the corners using my corner chomper. I than ran the cardstock through my die cutting machine. I lightly misted the cardstock  and embossed it using an older Spellbinders Mbossibilities embossing folder. I than inked the cardstock using some Gathered Twigs Distress ink to bring out the embossing more. I then added some splatters with some gold Perfect Pearl's and some Prize Ribbon Distress Ink.

The dragonflies are from a Stampin Up stamp set. I stamped them and colored them with my Copic markers.  I cut them out using the punch.

I then decided I wanted to add some cattails.  I found these in Cricut Design Space and cut them out at about 3 1/2". I added them to my Kraft cardstock mat. I adhered the mat to my card base with some foam tape. I added the dragonflies were added using foam tape as well. Finally I gold heat embossed my sentiment on a scrap of Kraft cardstock. I popped that up on my card as well.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Birthday Card

Here is a card I made for my Stepdad's birthday next week. The stamp is of an Oregon Lighthouse and part of a Stampin Up set I found at a benefit garage sale yesterday. I colored the stamped image with my watercolor pencils and blended the colors with my Dove blending pen. The base of the card is a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" white square card I had here. I mounted the stamped image on a dark blue cardstock. I liked the light blue and gray striped paper I put on the white card, it reminded me of Oregon Coast colors.