Dark Blue Rose Happy Anniversary 8in Fancy Rose TopperCompleted by Pamela Horton The whispering Platypus

Another beautiful design from Ann marie, and as always, a very fitting colour scheme and nostalgic portrayal for the Happy Anniversary subject. I actually made 2 cards for the photographs supplied. I made a step by step card, which is the main photograph, and a quick card, which is the second photograph. For both cards, I made 2 copies of the sheet supplied onto good quality copy paper. I used one copy and cut out the topper from the sheet. I then edged it right around with a metallic pen in a bronze shade of gold. I then made up the backing sheets. A royal blue 13.5x 13.5cm square, and a bronze card,12.5x 12.5cm., square. I used padded double sided tape to attach these together. I took 2x 40cm lengths of matching royal blue satin ribbon, 0.5cm wide, and wrapped this around the backing sheets, leaving the long tails hanging loose at the left hand edge, to later tie the bow. I used padded double sided tape to attach the backing sheets to the main white card front, 15 x 15 cm. square. I used regular double sided tape to attach the topper that I had cut out and then tied the bow. The second photograph shows the completed quick card

The steps above I repeated for the step by step card. I roughly cut out all the elements from both sheets, and used a pen glue to attach them to scrap card. It is ideal if you have blue scrap card. Once dry I coated each one with the mod podge dimensional magic, to give them more dimension, and set them aside to dry. I used all the elements from the first sheet, the largest rose from the second sheet and cut away the butterflies from the roses on the second sheet as well. I cut carefully around all of these and attached them with tiny padded double sided spots, and lastly tied the bow. I used the left over elements for the insert I had made.

I am delighted with both cards I have made and love the way it all went together. Thank You. I will keep my eye open for your newest designs.

A big hug

Pamela Horton