Diamond anniversary card

As I mentioned in the last post, it is my parents' diamond (60th) wedding anniversary soon - tomorrow in fact. I've already shown you the invitations so thought I'd show you the card I made them. Earlier this month I had made a large card (8" x 8") as a special order for a customer:

I don't think mum and dad would appreciate such a large card, so made a very similar one but slightly smaller (6" x 8"). I'm sorry about the quality of the photo - I took it at night in my studio, rather than in natural light with my usual set up. But I'm sure you get the idea!

Happy anniversary mum and dad - 60 years is certainly something to celebrate!

Jill

 

Diamond wedding anniversary invitations

I knew it had been a while since I'd last posted on here, but can't believe it was way back in January. I have lots of new designs to show you so please stay with me but today I thought I'd show you one of the reasons for my long absence. On 3rd April this year my parents will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary and I have been busy making the invitations for them.

 No quilling here - just a very simple design, I know, but sometimes (always?) the simple ones take twice as long to create. Once I had the design it was fairly simple to put them together though. I used white linen card from PaperMill Direct, glimmer paper from Stampin' Up and little diamante buckles MeiFlowers.
Here they are all together:

 I am quite looking forward to the celebration - I think it will be the first time the whole family will be together for 10 years, since their Golden Wedding anniversary!

Jill

No quilling again

Following on from the last post, I thought I show you the card I made for my sister and brother in law's silver wedding anniversary. Again, this card features not one bit of quilling - but again I've used dies from my Papertrey Ink haul!

The background panel has been embossed with a Cuttlebug "Swiss Dots" embossing folder - an old favourite of mine. But the matted number dies are new - will be using these a lot I think.

Back next time with some quilling, promise!

Jill

Paper quilling golden wedding card

Hello everyone,

I'm back again to show you another special order card. This customer wanted a large card for her parents golden wedding anniversary. She originally asked for an A4 card as she wanted room for lots of people to sign it, but I couldn't figure out how to do that and I felt that any quilling would look a bit lost on a card that size. So I suggested that maybe a 3 panel, concertina style card might be suitable, especially if it was a bit bigger than I'd normally make. She asked for the card to incorporate some gold, including gold ribbon, and burgundy. This is what I came up with:

The hearts were also the customer's idea. Each panel of the card measures 8" x 8". Here is a close up of each panel:

Here is a close up of the quilling. I don't think it shows up particularly well but the flowers are made with gold edged papers.

I added blank panels on the reverse so there was plenty of room for everyone to sign.

I am hoping the customer is pleased with it - I'm not sure it will have arrived yet as it was going to Australia.

I'm very excited about this weekend as I will be attending another workshop with the wonderful quiller, Diane Boden. So hopefully I'll have some lovely creations to showcase on here next week.

Jill x

Quilled anniversary card

Hi everyone,

Sorry, a day late again. Good excuses this time though, as I spent most of Friday and all of Saturday ill in bed. Feeling better now though and looking forward to two weeks off from the day job. Lots of plans for the Easter holidays, including a quick visit to see my parents in Gt Yarmouth, catching up with friends, helping Geoff my husband celebrate his 50 something birthday and a girlie shopping trip with my two daughters. As well as lots and lots of crafting - hurray!!

Today I want to share a quilled anniversary card with you. I have had several requests recently for coral (35th) anniversary cards. Coral is actually a very difficult colour to source in paper - it's either too pink or too orange.

Hopefully, the colours I have used here are near enough - what do you think?

Will see you all again next weekend. Have a good week - enjoy the nice weather as long as it lasts,

Jill