Silver Weddings

Yesterday I made two Silver Wedding cards - fortunately the recipients live 4,000 miles apart and don't know each other so the cards are almost identical. I used Cuttlebug EF called 'Jules' Jewels' and a Memory Box die butterfly (silver mirri card) to compliment it; the label is a Nestie long deckel edge rectangle also cut in silver mirri card with a plain white centre. With a white organza ribbon with a silver stripe, and simple silver peel offs the card looks far plainer than the actual time taken would imply. The second version (smaller numbers, because I didn't have any more of the others) took far less time, of course, having done all my dithering already. Today what should have been a five minute job making both inserts took an hour, which included searching for a non-existent anniversary stamp, and struggling with self-adhesive labels that weren't and removable tape which also removed the surface of the paper. My next major task will be two Golden Wedding cards, but as the couples are best friends I shall have to come up with completely different designs.

Summer? What summer?

Yes, summer is definitely on its way out and I'm marking the progress through the year with yet another change of photograph in the heading: this was taken at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley a couple of years ago. It was a gorgeous day in October when the autumn colours were at their best against a vivid blue sky, but I don't want to anticipate autumn too soon so I'll keep the red and gold maples for another day.

If I take May as the start of summer the season ended as it began, because once again the month was notable for visitors and dancing! I exaggerate a little, since only my sister came to visit and she stayed for less than 4 days, but we filled that precious time together with laughter and visiting old haunts from our childhood because she now lives in Somerset and I live just a few miles away from where we grew up. The month finished with a terrific long weekend spent folk dancing near Warwick, which is always a highlight of our year though tinged with sadness that it's the last of the festivals and a very long time to the next one in May 2011. I filled the rest of the month annotating my new book of dances and am now waiting for the proof reading to be completed......unfortunately I can't help tweaking and 'improving' the text each time I look at it so the marked copy I receive back from DD will bear little relation to what I have on the DTP!


Apart from the Get well card of my last post I made no cards at all during August. I need to get back into the habit, though, as it is a friend's birthday on Friday, our wedding anniversary next week (42 years) and DH's birthday 2 days later and I haven't given a thought to any cards yet. The easel card shown here was made at the weekend for friends Mark & Faye celebratng their Silver Wedding tomorrow; the base card is palest mauve pearlescent and the centre panel, mounted on the same mauve and matted on plain silver, is white and silver paper that looks like lace - a strip of the same paper backs the raised panel inside. Since I haven't shown it before I'm also showing the card I made for Mark's parents when they had their Golden Wedding 5 years ago.