Anniversary Invitation or Greeting Card

 

Celebrating a Wedding Anniversary is a very special event in anyone's life, we recently celebrated my husband's parents 50th Wedding Anniversary and I made the invitations, but before deciding which one to use I made a few samples. 

I needed something very nice and I wanted to use Michael Strong's stamps because they are very classy and versatile.

On my first sample, I used the Cloisonné Heart I embossed it with white embossing powder on a brown shiny card stock, and for the wording I used a Stampin' Up stamp, that goes very well with the love story.

To give the magic touch to the front of the card, I decided to open it like this...

In the inside, it had the Groom and the Bride on their wedding day, 50 years ago covered with a velum paper on top of the picture to fade it a little, and I was planning to write the invitation wording on the velum paper so people could see the wording  and having the couple as a background, then after the party they could have had the picture to frame and keep.

My second sample was the same idea but in different colors, and thinking that Red is the color of Love, then I decided to use Red and White...

The inside idea was the same and I used the same stamps than in my first sample only the embossing powder color changed from white to "Kettle Copper" over red card stock.

I was happier with the first sample a lot better, my only problem was the way the card opened, why? because we were celebrating a love story and opening the heart in the middle gave me the idea of a broken heart, and my Mother in Law didn't like the idea of having their images faded, but then where could I put the wording??? The sides were too narrow to write the invitation directions, so we decided to do something like this...  

So the image wasn't blurred, the wording wasn't cut and the heart wasn't a broken heart, and I got a lot of compliments about the invitation and Mom and Dad were happy too.

Happy Anniversary Guys!!!