Happy 17th Wedding Anniversary

... to my husband and me! 

Each year it´s a special challenge for me to make a card for my husband - that´s how it turned out this year:

... I couldn´t resist to include at least a small amount of "glitz" ...

... the inside holds a small envelope with a voucher on the back ...

Both envelopes were ready in a breeze with my new Envelope Punch Board!

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Glitter!

"All That Glitters"(CAS-ual Fridays)  ... the perfect challenge for me ... I love all things glittery and sparkling!!

I needed sort of a "gift card" for my Dad - and made a pouch with a monogram of his first name:

(there´s a 300yr. old Bible in the background)

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Happy 16th Anniversary

... to my husband and me!

Year after year it´s a challenge to create a masculine card for my husband... I´m too girly and "vintagy" for masculine cards!

This year a stroke of good fortune came to the rescue of me:

by pure chance I found the center-piece of my card on that pebbly beach in Croatia this summer - what a "gem" ! I knew instantly what I would use it for :-)

... I opted for this dry embossing folder (Cuttlebug) to mimic the motion of the sea/waves...

What a rare fluke to find such a perfectly shaped pebble!

Hubby wants a new road bike next year - so my gift will be related to his wish...

I´d like to participate here:

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.at/2012/12/week-98-anniversary.html

Have a nice, cozy weekend!

15th Anniversary & homemade envelopes

Today is our 15th Wedding Anniversary!

As I was absolutely in love with the card I made for Tom last year, it was really hard for me to come up with something I like at least roughly the same...but then I saw the gorgeous papers from the Lost & Found collection by My Mind´s Eye and instantly bought the Breeze "Boyish" Handsome Paper.

So here´s this year´s card - quite CAS :

I made an envelope too, so that I can participate in the CAS-ual Fridays´ challenge (card with a coordinating envelope)

A while ago I wondered, if I should buy more envelope dies, because I love the one that I have so much (the mini envelope die by Papertrey Ink) - but those envelope dies (doesn´t matter which company) are really expensive here! And I would still have only some certain sizes. 

So I decided to make all my future envelopes myself - it´s so easy! Just a matter of a few minutes!

My dear friend Dj told me that she likes to make huge cards up to 6" x 7-1/2". So I wondered, how I would do an envelope for such a card, so that the points come together right .... I thought it would be best to measure the dimensions of the card and make some pencil marks on a 12"x12" paper before scoring...

I made a small drawing to explain, what I mean - the card is represented by the yellow sticky note:

I would score along the sides of the card then, fold the paper and cut off the needless corners.

Does anyone of you have another or better idea to do this?

******** Vegetarians : skip this following sentence! ***********

Ok, I´ve to "fleet" to the kitchen now - preparing our anniversary-dinner: salmon toast with Prosecco and steaks with potatoes - yummy!

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Metal Steampunk

Valerie introduced me through her blog post to this interesting challenge at Make My Monday ... Metal Steampunk!

One of my "babies" (= sticky-notes-booklets) fits into this challenge: I wanted to make a masculine one - so I chose black for the cover and heat embossed the clock face and the other circles in a decent hue of gold and added some parts of old clocks I bought months ago at a flea market... pretty vintage!

Here it is:

 

Have a great weekend everybody and thanks a lot for visiting me!

Happy Anniversary ….to us!

14 years – where have they gone? Time really flies!


As I know, that men usually don´t care that much about cards, no great idea came to my mind and I decided to make no card this year – until yesterday…. yes, it´s true, men don´t care MUCH about them – but they DO care a LITTLE – at least they feel flattered the second they get it… women would put them on their table for a while, but my hubby stores them in a drawer… I´m satisfied with that ;-)

So yesterday I had a scrap of grey cardstock and the postman brought a package with a “small” haul (*hem*) … and one of my new stamps fitted exactly onto that scrap – and all of a sudden I had my idea … and the card finished within minutes!

It´s so easy once you´re inspired!

I hope he will like it – I will give it to him this evening, when we enjoy open sandwiches with cold-smoked salmon and 1 (or 2 or…) glasses of Prosecco… :-)

Unfortunately we´ve go to work tomorrow – so no time to stay up long… it´s easier to organise something more “fantastic” on weekends – but that´s ok…

Have a fabulous evening everybody and thanks for stopping by!
PS: If you want to, tell me how YOU celebrate(d) your anniversary with your hubby?! I always appreciate new ideas ;-) !