7th - Wool Anniversary Card on an Easel

It was recently Tom and Laura's 7th wedding anniversary, which, when I looked it up, found that the traditional gift to give was "wool", so it was a no-brainer that sheep immediately sprang to mind as the theme for a card

Well, it was my intention to make a card, but then I re-found one of the mini blackboard easels that I got ages ago from The Works (99p and still available) and decided to use one instead.

The wooden sheep embellishments are from Trimits, found on eBay.

I coloured them with a white Posca pen, gave them grey ears and feet and then small, black, flat back domes for their eyes and noses, which gave them a completely different character.

For the background, which I stuck onto the easel, I used a heart and knitted design paper, edged with faux stitching using a black fine liner pen.

However, when I added the sheep my thoughtful choice of paper just disappeared into the background,  a lesson you would have thought I'd learned by now  ..........

...... and then even more so when I added the small nail art flowers ........ doh!

So perhaps, in the end, a plain, green grass background would have bought the sheep out more and looked more effective, rather than me getting all clever!

Still I liked the easel .......

......... an idea that I have used in the past, and as I have a few more left I think I might make one or two Christmas ones, perhaps for Bertie and Iris's festive bedrooms as a lasting memory of Christmas 2020, along with whatever else it might bring. 

Anniversary Card

Today my husband and I celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary which is Pearl.  Now, I don’t think pearls are very manly – so how could I incorporate them into a card for my big burly man ………?

Well, I turned them into little fish …… because one of  Andy’s many hobbies is keeping them!

The eyes are the nail decorations I got from Poundland last week, they are just the right size, the silver bubbles are also nail heads from Rhinestones Online, the translucent micro glitter is Dazzling Diamonds from Stampin’ Up and the doodling is all mine!

As for gifts – I gave him four hermit crabs for his fish tank and he gave me a new camera.  The macro setting for close up photos is so good, I couldn’t use them, as the fish close up were disgusting, covered in stray bits of glitter, dried glue and fingerprints!