A VERY SPECIAL DATE.

            Our eldest daughter and her husband celebrate their Silver Wedding Anniversary tomorrow. Fantastic achievement and certainly a date to celebrate. I remember their wedding day so well. It was the first time I had ever made a wedding cake, in those days they were not quite so fancy as they are now but I still spent many hours decorating it. It also turned out to be a lovely sunny day which can be a bit hit and miss for this time of year. 


        Anyway I obviously needed a special card for this anniversary. I chose the swan club plate from Claritystamp. There is only one swan on the plate so I needed to reverse it then trace over with a white pencil and then emboss the lines. This is creating the design in the traditional way much more fiddly which is why the Groovi plates are such a big hit. I really wanted to get the heart that is created by using two swans.

          The embossing on the necks was done over several days. Very lightly at first with a no 6mm tool then gradually working down the sizes. Instead of embossing the bodies I chose to do some gridwork.

      Other than a little bit of gridwork around the border I did not think this design needed much more. 

                     So a very Happy Anniversary to Yvonne and Anthony.

      
    Thank-you for dropping by. xx