Hello! I was asked to make a card recently for a golden wedding anniversary (50th) and here's what I came up with. I was completely uninspired to make something traditional, so I rootled around in my stamps and found this one (The Stamp Barn by Frog's Whiskers Ink). I thought there was plenty of scope for adding gold, and I liked the "two birds" element for the anniversary part. The card base is a gold-fleck confetti (the ugly splotches have been added by Sauron the Scanner, aided and abetted by Paint Shop Pro - it doesn't show in my edited version, only when I load it here for your viewing pleasure). I stamped the bird image and embossed it with gold, and used my Tombow markers to "watercolour" it. I painted the ribbon with Solar Gold Twinkling H20s for extra oomph. The sentiment (Stampin' Up) is also embossed in gold. The panel behind the images is a soft gold, the sentiment is matted with a brighter gold and the bird image is matted on a brown gold. This card has enough gold on it to qualify for the High Roller Discount on the Vegas Strip. Go big or go home, I always say.
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're enjoying your summer/winter (don't want to be hemispherically biased here!). We sure are - lots of swimming and barbecues and generally enjoying the break in the weather. (We had a terrible heat wave last week.) I've been doing some jamming and some quilting and some stamping and some knitting and some crocheting. Good times!
Happy Stamping!
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