Pearl Anniversary

 

Tomorrow is the thirtieth wedding anniversary of my cousin and her husband and this is the card I've made for them. I made this card layout several times last year, for anniversaries and weddings and in various colour combinations, but I never tire of putting together this "elegant shoe" from a template designed by Coppernob.  Although time consuming to make, the end result is really effective.

The flower embellishments are made using a quilling pattern I found in a Craft Creations project for a rose basket.  I use a one inch and a half inch punch to make them. Lots of different techniques are used to make this card including one of the first ones I used when starting to make cards - Ornare paper pricking.

The base card is white pearlised card but the matting layers are a mixture of matt and linen off white/cream card.  The rose patterned card is from Kanban.  Mother of pearl styled sequins, self adhesive pearls, pearl beads, cream satin ribbon and silver peel offs were used as embellishments.  A PSX stamp was used to stamp and emboss the sentiment on to the sole of the shoe with Stampendous detail silver embossing powder.

I was Alison and Colin's bridesmaid that day thirty years ago and I can truly say I have never again felt so glamourous as I did that day, not even on my own wedding day.  We went off in the morning and had our hair done.  Mine was swept back at one side with a lovely corsage added matching our navy blue dresses.  We then went off and had a facial and our make up applied.  I'd never had any kind of treatment before so this was a lovely experience.   It's difficult to believe that thirty years have passed since.

This is the box I've made to send the card in and now I must look for a sturdy box for both to be protected as they wing their way to Inverness.  Hope they have a lovely day however they celebrate.

  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges 29 - Wedding/Love

Thanks for reading

Liz xx