Saturday 30 June 2018

Handmade Peacock Anniversary Card

 
I recently signed up to the Hunkydory Craft club - Hunkydory is a craft brand that is particularly known for ready made toppers and die cut images and sentiments. Their club gives you a discount when you buy, but the reason I signed up was because you could get a set of toppers for only the £2.99 cost of postage as a new member.

The set I got included flamingos, birds - and peacocks. I decided to use one of the peacock images to make an anniversary card for my husband for our second anniversary as we'd had peacocks at our wedding.


You can read more about the venue and our day in my post from 2016 on our wedding at the Larmer Tree Gardens.

To make the card, I chose a larger than usual A5 card blank and covered it with a piece of the cardstock that came with the Hunkydory set. It had a strip of a different pattern across part of the card which I positioned along the bottom of my card and added a border from the same set. The peacock and frame are all different elements from the Hunkydory set too.

Finally I added a glittery thick card word saying 'anniversary' which I think I bought from Tesco (though I could be wrong!).

I'm sharing this with:

Daring Cardmakers where the theme is weddings or anniversaries

TGIF challenges has the theme 'all that glitters'

Alphabet Challenge - G is for great outdoors, and the peacock represents our outdoor wedding

and at Tuesday Taggers it's 'things with wings'.

12 comments:

  1. Your card is gorgeous

    Thank you for joining us at TRY IT ON TUESDAY

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  2. What a beautiful card project! I am in awe of it! Happy Anniversary ! So pleased you played along with us over at Try It On Tuesday! Your participation is much appreciated! Thank you very much!
    oxo Susi
    (DT- Try It On Tuesday)

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  3. Just Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing with us at Alphabet Challenge. Love your wedding photo. Happy Anniversary!
    Janis
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  4. Pretty card, I love the peacock.

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  5. This is a beautiful card. What a wonderful way to remember your special day :)

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  6. What a beautiful card and way to celebrate your second anniversary! Congratulations!!! Thanks for joining TGIF Challenges this week.

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  7. A lovely elegant look to this and great that you were able to tie it in with an element of your wedding - brave of you to risk a peacock upstaging the bridal couple! Thanks for joining us this week at Daring Cardmakers!

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  8. Beautiful peacock and a lovely card

    Thanks for joining us at Try It On Tuesday challenge

    Joan

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  9. Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at TioT.

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  10. Beautiful card! You had peacocks at your wedding - wow! After linking up my peacock painting at TIOT, I noticed your card and had come see more. What a happy coincidence ;-)

    Eileen

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    1. The peacocks live at the venue and are quite tame so were wandering around among our wedding guests, it made for some great photos! We had alpacas there too but that's another story, I had to hire them separately ;-)

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  11. Such a beautiful card. The peacock image is stunning. Thanks for joining in at Daring Cardmakers. x

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