Monday 5 September 2016

17th anniversary

There doesn't seem to be a traditional gift for a 17th anniversarry but the modern gift is furniture. 
Now much as I would like to give a gift of furniture I think it is something very personal and after 17 years of marriage not something you would expect a couple to need . 

With this in mind I decided to compromise and send some furniture  on a card at least that way it won't take up much room and when they are fed up of it, it can be recycled  or thrown away.

I used a white base card ,a black and silver matt and a darkroom 'happy anniversary' sentiment stamped in black ink. I drew a rough design of a chair in pencil which I erased when the ink was dry. I used scraps of paper to mask areas I didn't want to stamp and think it turned out quite well, at least I don't think the couple will get another card like it, just hope they realise what it represents (maybe I should put a note inside explaining,lol).

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-


Creatalicious - anything goes optional anniversary


The corrosive challenge -anything goes 

Sweet stampin' - wedding /anniversary/love

9 comments:

Bianca van Tilburg. said...

It's a funny card.
Thank you for sharing with us by The Corrosive Challenge Blog.
Hugs Bianca DT.

maria f. said...

Fantastic job. I was coming to say this was so creative. I appreciate it even more now knowing it's for the couple celebrating "furniture". See, my mom does that for us every year. Gets us something related to the category for that year. So very cool. Hope they appreciate it.

cm said...

My CAS-loving heart is swooning over your clever 'furniture' themed 17th anniversary card! Ingenious! Thrilled to see you in the ATSM gallery!
~carol

Bobby said...

What a truly clever card, Julye. I can't imagine how you masked this to get it to look like a perfect chair but you did a wonderful job. I'm so glad you shared this at ATSM.

Janine - Ellabella said...

Great card! Thanks so much for joining us this time at the Creatalicious Challenge, Janine (DT)

Cass said...

Great idea. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin'
Cass xx

Cass said...

Great idea. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin'
Cass xx

suzARTe said...

This is such an imaginative card, so unique and cool. It would be fantastic if you shared this creation at Anything goes September link-up, Just keep on creating
Susan xx

Melanie said...

A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our "anything goes with optional anniversary” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…

Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)

(DT Crafty Friends)

(DT The Sketchy Challenges)


PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy the past couple of weeks…