Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Snow Couple Anniversary

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week it is a fan favorite: Anything Goes!! And here is the card I created for your inspiration:
My parents' anniversary is the day after Christmas and I created this sweet little card to help celebrate them!  I was still feeling a bit in the Christmas mood, so I pulled out a lot of winter products and got busy creating.  I started by stamping some white snowflakes on the navy card base and then swiping a bit of white ink around the edges of the panel.  For the long vertical panel, I pressed white ink onto my snowflake embossing folder before embossing another piece of navy card stock. I added borders of silver glitter paper.  I heat embossed my sentiment ("The very best love stories have no endings") with silver embossing powder and swiped white ink around the edges of the sentiment panel.  
I stamped my snow couple (I had to do a little creative masking to take them from family to couple), colored the, and fussy cut them out.  I added silver dots to the hat and shawl and a bit of clear wink of stella to the "fur" and the band on the top hat.  You can see all the sparkle and shine in the photo below:
I added a little tiny rose red die cut heart to emphasize the "love" theme.  Though I questioned my daughter when she said pink and I said red, I do like how this turned out with the compromise of the two colors.
Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Snow Family" and "The Very Best"
Dies: Spellbinders mini scalloped border; Verve "Scalloped Trim Trio" (I used a leftover heart from on of the border dies)
Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder

Challenges:


Let's Squash It #3--any embossing folder + dies/fussy cutting (I used both dies and fussy cutting)
Word Art Wednesday #471--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Pixie's Crafty Workshop--anything goes with snippets (everything except the card base and the little heart was cut from snippets.  The scalloped borders are actually pieced together behind the sentiment panel because I didn't have strips that were quite long enough)
Simon Says Stamp Monday--celebrate (celebrating my parents being married for 44 years!)





13 comments:

Glittered Paws said...

What a great anniversary card - and the little heart in the middle of the snowflake is perfect. Perfect winter anniversary card. Merry Christmas

Donna said...

This is stunning, like how you created a swing! Happy Anniversary to your parents and Merry Christmas!

Laurie Unger said...

Awww - how sweet. They're going to love this anniversary card. Merry Chrsitmas.

foleysfriend said...

What a precious anniversary card! I can feel the love you put into it. It's adorable. I like how you've incorporated snowflakes onto your card. Thanks for joining us at Cupcake Inspirations.

sue n.

Sarn said...

What a delightful winter anniversary card.
Have as good a time as possible.
Hugs, Sarn xxx

*Vicki* said...

Awe! That snowman couple is just as sweet as can be! I love them and all of the wonderful snowflakes in your background with the embossed and stamped design! So pretty and they will love it! Thank you for sharing your creation with us over at the {Cupcake Inspirations} Challenge! HUGS, *Vicki* (DT)

Pattie G said...

Very cute! I love the colors. Thanks for joining us at Pattie's Creations Design Challenge.
Pattie G
Artist & Owner

Patti J said...

This is beautiful and adorable! Bet your parents loved it! Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

Monika Skinner said...

This is such a sweet anniversary card. Loving the little snowcouple. Thanks so much for playing along at STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt challenge. Good Luck! Wishing you the best for 2021 too.

Dotty Jo said...

This is adorable - bet your parents love it! Thanks for playing at Let's Squash It! Jo x

Di said...

Such a sweet Anniversary card Heather - I love it and bet your parents did as well.

Hugs

Di xx

Kelly Schelske said...

Such a cute card Heather! Great work!

Thank you so much for joining us at Creative Knockouts last challenge of 2020! I hope you will play along with us again this time around!

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Fab anniversary card, Heather - just love the snow couple with the embossed panel of snowflakes!!