Anniversary Card 2013

My wedding anniversary is just before Christmas and this year we are celebrating 32 years of marriage. This is the card I made for my husband.

I used 300gsm white card stock for the base, then layered two matting boards using blue shaded blue paper. The base was an A4 sheet, folded in half and then I trimmed off an inch from the bottom.

The top cut out is a spellbinders die, which comes with an oval which I used to make the blue oval matting board, cut from the same shaded blue paper as the matting board. The blue backing board is 1/2 inch larger than the die cut out. I printed the sentiment onto white cardstock and cut it out using the second largest spellbinders classic oval die.

The lower boards were cut 1/4 inch smaller for each layer. I layered a blue layer, then white then a second  blue layer. The ribbon is one inch wide satin and is tied around the last two matting boards and into a double bow. The board was layered with foam tape onto the lower blue backing boards, which were then attached to the card base with foam tape.

Finally I added three pale blue diamontes to the sentiment, and used the same pale blue diamontes to bling up the spellbinders cut out.