Happy Anniversary X Two

My niece and her husband celebrated their second anniversary this weekend. Their wedding was one of the most fun weddings I’ve ever attended, and the two of them couldn’t be sweeter! Here’s a more elegant verson of the anniversary card I made for friends a couple of weeks ago.

You need to see it up close to get a good look at the metallic papers.

The embossed silver cardstock came from Michaels, and the gold is from Paper source. I used Simon Says woodgrain again for the Phrase Play #5 die cut from Papertrey Ink. The stamp is from the same set. I couldn’t seem to get a good picture of the sequins, but there’s a pretty clear sequin from Pretty Pink Posh nestled into a larger gold one from Michaels.

The inside sentiment is from Papertrey’s Delightful Dahlia’s Additions. The hearts on both the front and the inside are from the Hearts and Arrows die from Savvy.

The next card was inspired by the current CAS-ual Friday challenge to create a card with hearts in summer colors. 

I die cut the Tic Tac Toe Hearts into the front of the card, then colored the hearts with my Copic markers and laid them back into the original die cut. The sentiment comes from two Simon Says sets: Happy, and Color and Sunshine. 

It makes for a nice one-layer, flat card that will be winging its way in August to friends on the west coast.

I’ll link both up to Virginia’s Die Cut Challenge as well.

Before I go, I thought I’d share a few photos (all from my phonte) from our Fourth of July birthday celebration.

We had bruschetta chicken, and orzo salad with spinach and feta, potato salad, a green salad, and rolls for dinner. I didn’t get a photo but we had chocolate mousse cake from Joey B’s for dessert. My mother-in-law requested it, but didn’t expect we’d be able to get it direct from the restaurant. It was delicious.

Here we all are—a couple folks are looking rather serious, but I only took one quick photo so the food wouldn’t get cold.

After dinner we drove to Canandaigua Lake, boarded the Canandaigua Lady, and watched the fireworks from the lake. It was a bit chilly, but we were well-prepared, and the fireworks were wonderful. We got a beautiful sunset as well.