Golden Years

50 years ago today this beautiful young couple started out their married life together full of love and hope and expectations for their future together, they worked hard and made a perfect couple.

They had a baby daughter a few years later and lived Happily Ever After :)

This beautiful Bride and Handsome Groom are my Mummy & Daddy and they are truly the best parents I could ever have wished for x

Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary Jo & Sid you are both amazing and I wish you lots of love today and many more Happy Anniversaries.

So in a manner befitting the occasion I created a card for them ....

I love that whatever the celebration Stampin' Up! has just what I need to make the perfect card, I have used Fancy Foil Vellum with the adorable golden hearts on and Gold Foil too for a luxurious touch, both these products are still available in the Spring Catalogue until the end of June.

I layered up the Labels Framelits with a neutral Sahara Sand and the sentiment is tamped using Memorable Moments totally indispensable as it covers all dates and occasions.

The final flourishes are Papillion Potpourri butterflies, all the stamping was done with Versamark ink and Stampin' Up! Gold Embossing powder, it gives such a rich and professional looking finish.

A few pearls and a Vintage Crochet Trim were added for prettiness.

I hope you enjoyed sharing my Mummy & Daddy's special day and card with me :)

Nicola xx

Happy Mothers Day !

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mum's :)

I hope you'll all have a lovely day and be thoroughly spolit !

You may remember the card I made for my colleagues wife's 50th ? Well this is a version made specially for my my Mummy ...I've gone for a classic colour palette of Ivory, Black and Champagne Glimmer Paper.

The gorgeous papers are Modern Medley , yes , the same as I used on Justin's card see how versatile this selection is ! 

I made a simple concertina and added punched the ends with my Scallop Tag Topper Punch, the individual panels are die cut with the Label Framelits layered in Black, Ivory and the yummy Champagne Glimmer Paper (second favourite to Silver !)

I used the Memorable Moments stamp set to stamp the top layer of the panels and the letters were cut on my Silhouette machine.

I made a bespoke envelope with my Envelope Punch Board to store this little keepsake in and finished with some pearls, tiny punched butterflies and Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon.

Happy Mothers Day Mummy , I love you x

Nicola xx

Concertina Card

A colleague in work asked me to make a special card for his wife's 50th birthday, he wanted something special and after seeing a gorgeous concertina card on Julie Kettlewell's blog here, I decided that it would have plenty of wow factor for this special occasion :)

It's quite a substantial card, more of a keepsake I think, I resized the original card so that I could use A4 cardstock in Raspberry Ripple and used the Scallop Tag Topper Punch for the end sections. The patterned paper I used is not Stampin' Up! but as a pink theme was requested it fitted the bill perfectly. I used my Silhouette machine to cut the letters and numbers out.

I loved using my Label Framelit dies for the first time , I layered up Raspberry Ripple , Silver Glimmer and Whisper White, the White section is stamped with the Memorable Moments set which is a must have for special cards as it has all the numbers you need and sentiments for birthdays and anniversaries.

Lots of bling and sparkle for the Birthday Girl !

The envelope needed to be deep enough to accommodate all those lovely layers and with the Envelope Punch Board it was easy peasy to make one that fitted perfectly.

Finally the section for writing the greeting on, see how fab the Memorable Moments stamp set is !

I really hope my colleague is pleased with how this turned out and I hope the Birthday Girl is thrilled with it.

I'm thinking of running this project as a class, what do you think ??

See you all soon

Nicola x