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Way back in January I wrote about an Unusual Wedding Invitation which I had made for Stewie to give to his bride to be, Lisa. Well the Wedding Day finally came last Sunday and we had a lovely day at their wedding.

However, as usual, my life has been really hectic so I had absolutely no time left to make them a Wedding Card myself. I frantically searched through all the card boxes of the cards we sell at Church. Luckily Anita had recently made this delightful card so I dutifully purchased it, but before writing it, decided it was so nice I had to share it with you.

The card is a landscape with scalloped edges. I hope you can just make out the pale white and grey backing paper which Anita has used as a base mat. Onto this she has rubber stamped a delightful wedding image from Lili of the Valley which she had bought from one of the craft shows we have been to, and a simple sentiment.

The stamped image has been mounted onto silver Mirri card and the finishing touch is a white chiffon ribbon.

I love the way Anita has been quite sparing with her use of colour on this card – the image could have been more heavily coloured but I think this would have distracted from the overall feel of the card.

A little glitter just gives the card the right amount of highlights.

There are so many lovely wedding stamps on the market at the moment that you can be spoilt for choice.  However here are just a few which you may like and they are available for sale:

And just in case you’re wondering what the happy couple looked like – here is their photo – taken just after they’d exited the Church through a whirl of confetti!

It’s a sad fact that often our lives are so busy that we take our friendships for granted.

That is why I want to share this card with you. It was made by a lady called Linda (not the same Linda I have previously written about) who has recently joined our card making team and she is making some really lovely cards for us to sell at Church. This one particularly caught my eye because it is so bright and jolly and just immediately makes you want to smile.

I think it is a great card to send to a friend to just to let them know that you do not take them for granted and that you do value their friendship.

I like the way Linda has combined her use of rubber stamping with the torn hand made paper and the printed background paper.

It was really refreshing for me when Linda showed me some of her cards and asked to join our team because her style is very different to mine and she has jolted me into thinking how I can freshen up some of my card making.

So my suggestion to you all is to make some Friendship Cards and let your friends know how much you value them.

And if you don’t already have any friendship stamps in your collection here is a selection available for you to purchase. Simply click on the image to select the stamp of your choice:

At Church recently we had a Celebration Evening to celebrate what has been achieved in the last 6 months and to look forward to the next 6. As part of the evening our choir performed  a special song and I’m going to share it with you here because I think it fits in with this piece on friendship – I know many of my friends have been there for me in tough times ( you know who you are ladies!) and I was grateful for their support.

I hope you enjoy the video – all the singers are amateurs and rehearse together for just a couple of hours a week. I thnk they did a great job on a great song!

Here’s a little something for St Patrick’s Day!

Although the theme is St Patrick’s Day it would be easy to adapt this idea for any other special day. For a birthday you could substitute a more expenisve bar of chocolate and use some of the lovely papers from Cardmaking-Ideas!

Susan
Cardmaking-companion

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I had a superb day last Saturday when a friend and I went to a Rubber Stamping Fair at Port Sunlight. It was a great day out and we were spoilt for choice with the wide variety of different stamps which were for sale.

Obviously Christmas themed stamps dominated the stalls but there were plenty of other stamps as well.

I picked up some lovely Penny Black clear stamps packs which had been discounted by 66% – what a bargain! Hopefully I’ll be able to post some of my efforts with them shortly.

I also got another set of Just Rite stamps which I’m itching to use!

We spent the whole day at the Fair and by the time we got home we could hardly stand let alone think about rubber stamping!

I really enjoy going to card making and craft fairs – I like seeing what new products are on offer and always find there’s some new tip you can pick up from the demonstrators.

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Just had to share with you this video I found on YouTube. The camera work is a bit shaky but just look at the rubber stamps this shop has got – this must surely be Rubber Stamping Heaven!

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