Hi Everyone. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are all having a great week so far.
Tonight's card uses a variation on the embossed resist technique. I stamped the image for the background, underneath the sentiment, using pearlized acrylic paint,which I applied and then dried using my heatgun. Once it was dry, all that was needed was some ink over the top of it, just like normal embossed resit. I used normal Whisper White card stock instead of the glossy, as I really wanted the glossy effect to be on the stamped image. Once it was completed, I realized it was too bright a color, I really should have used Blushing Bride, so softened it using my age old trick with vellum!
I absolutely love this sentiment…. it was perfect for the card that I needed. This card is dedicated to our dearest friends Pam and John who celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary this week! I remember them when they were a young couple madly in love. How quickly time passes, but they are still madly in love.
Here's looking at you kids 🙂
On a personal note:
I promised you a quick update on the house. Well, we drove up the road and saw that there was a crane in "our cul de sac". Oh…. yeah…. oh… yeah…. PROGRESS!!!!! Here's the picture I took
Isn't that progress amazing… I mean all the walls are up and the roof was being trussed as we arrived. We sat and watched them hoist up the roof trusses.
This is all wonderful, right? Really wonderful? you can hear the BUT coming, right?
Yep… it was the next door house. No progress on ours. No. nothing! Well, not quite true, they did lay the concrete in the basement. So, for this week, we have to live vicariously through the excitement of watching our neighbor's house being built. They were a couple of weeks ahead of us and great progress has certainly been made in the last two weeks and we know that our house will soon be at this point. Maybe about 3 weeks!
Tomorrow I will share a quick video that I took whilst we were at OUR house.
As always, thank you so much for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere. You know that your visits and your comments mean a great deal to me.
Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.
Jaydee
6 Responses
What a GORGEOUS card! Just gorgeous! It is simplicity itself and the vellum does the trick softening the pink. Happy anniversary, Pam and John! 35 years is amazing!
Oh man, I got so excited seeing those walls and trusses. Drat. But, if they’ve moved that fast on your neighbors’ house, you’ll be seeing walls before you know it. Hooray!
Happy Hump Day!
Hugs!
P.S. Hi Lou! :o)
What a lovely card!!! Everyone seems to be using vellum in gorgeous ways…I need to try it too!
How exciting waiting for your house to be built!!!! I’d be there every day, lol! Almost like waiting for a new baby. Enjoy and I’m so happy for you!!
Jaydee, this is such a beautiful card for your special friends; I love it to bits, and bet they will too! Love your use of vellum to tone down the brightness – it’s perfect.
Aw, Happy Anniversary to Pam and John!
Love the card and I so agree with the Velum it really puts a touch to cards. Thanks so much for sharing with all of us. Can’t wait to see the progress on the house once they really get moving along … just takes time, but it will go fast Jaydee. Have a great Thursday!
I was so excited for the house until I saw the but comment. It will happen fast for you too!
Hi Jaydee! Soft and pretty card with a beautiful sentiment. Congrats to your special friends!! I’m glad that your “but” wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. My stomach tightened for a minute. A big sigh that yours is right behind and nothing wrong!