Happy anniversary to us!

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary (17 years!) but our focus was on moving our daughter into her university accommodation so not exactly romantic! So we decided to pause and celebrate a little late – in fact we won’t be celebrating until next week! However rather than pause the blog I’m doing it today as he doesn’t read my blog anyway!

Because I’ve been very focussed on the big move I didn’t get round to making the anniversary card until Friday night – hence the bad light for the photos!

Anyway the card I made was fun to do and turned out quite well!

I used the Altenew Big World stamps and dies I’ve been loving using recently (some more projects coming up on the blog in a few days) and I made an interactive card.

I decided the world would be a perfect stamp to make a spinner card. I saw Jennifer Maguire make one recently on a live she did with Kristina Werner (whose new line of stamps, stencils and dies I adore and am longing to buy but can’t quite justify the spend at the moment!) and really wanted to have a go at it!

I added a bit of stencilling for framing the world and also a little extra stamping with the little hearts and the anniversary sentiment.

I added a panel to the inside with the same stencilling too and some more of the stamped hearts.

The world stamp is so great as it has two different views so makes it perfect for this spinner!

I loved making the card and I know that with the world stamp it is perfect for my hubby as he loves globes so even though I didn’t use the globe element to the set I know the interactivity will amuse him!

I did do a few things slightly wrong making it (the string isn’t quite central to the hole in the card for example and you can see one of the black stamped hearts through the hole by accidentally stamping too far to the left) so look forward to trying it again with other elements as a fun different card to make!

So happy anniversary to me and him – especially as we have become empty nesters and start the next phase of our lives together!

Happy crafting!

Catherine