Wedding Anniversary Valentines Day 8x8 Card Front 2Completed by Pamela Horton The whispering Platypus

Anna has provided us with a stunning card front design that really doesn’t need any additions. It is a quick and simple topper to print, cut out and attach to a card front. I spent a little more effort because I like to, and I had the time. I used CB matte white 200gsm white card to print the sheet supplied. The colours are absolutely beautiful and print up so well. I used a gold metallic pen to colour the edges of the main image, the single heart and the double heart. I used peel off pearls to attach to the double heart and decorated the wings and the body of the butterfly using very tiny green jewels and a purple one for the head. I cut out the larger heart with the sentiment and attached it using padded D.S. tape. I then attached a matching pink jewel. I made a white backing sheet which measures 12.75x 12.75cm, and coloured the edges with the gold metallic pen, and using a ruler. I made a second backing sheet which matches the pink hearts, and it measures 13.5 x 13.5cm. I coloured the very fine edges with a deep purple pen. I then made an ivory card, which I cut at 29 x 14.5cm, and used the same gold pen and ruler to colour a 3mm wide edge on all edges inside and outside. I then scored and folded it. I attached a narrow gold satin ribbon across the front of the white backing sheet, 3 cm up from the bottom edge, to enable it to line up with the ribbon on the main element. I used D.S. tape to attach this white backing sheet to the pink backing sheet and attached the ribbon around at the back of the pink backing sheet. I then used padded D.S. tape to attach this to the card front and tied a single simple onestep bow, and used white glue to attach the bow. I used regular D.S. tape to attach the topper to the card front. I added some more tiny jewels to the corners, and lower edge. I used a deep blue coloured sheet cut at 28 x 14 cm for the insert, and cut out 2 different sized hearts from some pink paper. I edged these with a purple pen before attaching them with white glue. I used metallic pens in white and mauve to draw the scroll shapes and the white to write the sentiment. I am more than delighted with the outcome. I am sending Anna a big hug to say thank you.

Pamela Horton