World Card Making Day 2017!

Greetings crafty friends! Happy Saturday! Happy World Card Making Day 2017! Are you doing something fun today to celebrate WCMD? Are you stamping with friends or taking part in an online contest or hop? I hope you are able to fit in some creative time today. How cool is it that there is an entire day just for Card Making?? It's a beautiful Autumn weekend here in Sacramento. I'll be in my studio all day today and then on Sunday I am taking another crochet class! I am finding that in order to keep up with the crocheting I need to be in class. I'm going to be doing it with a favorite friend, too, which makes it even better! Mark and I celebrated our wedding anniversary this week with a nice road trip. I posted some pictures at the bottom of my post from our trip! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

I posted on Monday to kick off WCMD and that post has a prize giveaway on it! If you haven't already entered, CLICK HERE to head to that post and leave a comment. I'm giving away three $25.00 gift certificates to Scrapbook.com to three lucky winners! There is also a GIANT SALE this weekend at Scrapbook.com! Something for everyone. I stocked up on the new Waffle Flower Release, and new Tim Holtz Christmas stamps.

Today's card I'm sharing shows how I feel about my card making community....and the sentiment is 'sending love' because I'm sending you lots of love today! I used adorable brand new stamps from Honey Bee Stamps and my watercolor pencils to create a clean and simple card perfect for friend! I haven't busted out the watercolor pencils in a long time and it was fun to re-visit this technique.

I started with an A2 card base from cream cardstock. I completely covered the front of the card with Lawn Fawn Plaid Paper in this soft teal/blue color. I really like this technique of covering the entire card front with patterned paper! Gives a whole different look. I stamped the image of the animals in Archival Black Ink so it would not smear with the water. I used watercolor pencils and a water brush to color in the sweet critters!

I used some Lawn Fawn woodgrain paper in soft brown for my sentiment. The sentiment is from the Honey Bee Stamps set called Seasonal Sweeties and I stamped it in brown ink. I pretty twine bow finishes off the card.

I used Antique Linen Distress Ink and a sponge to ink around the edges of my panel. This just gives a really soft and vintage look to the card. I thought it went well with the coloring I chose. The stamp set with these cuties is called Forest Friends. LOVE. I also added a few sequins!

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For our anniversary - which was on Tuesday - we kept it really low key and fun. Mark and I are not super fancy people in general. We really would rather just have a pizza and hang out than go to a super fancy restaurant or spend a ton of money on presents. I think that happens after 24 years together!! We went for a long road trip around the Sierra mountains looking for Fall color. Here where we live in Sacramento the leaves don't turn until almost November. But up in the mountains, the Aspens are already turning yellow. You know how much I love Fall! LOL. We drove around Highway 88 through to Lake Tahoe and ended up having dinner there, then came home. It was a lovely lovely day! And, as a bonus, it was like 40 degrees up there! I almost forgot what it felt like to be cold, after the HOT summer we had here. Here are a few photos from our day out! XOXO

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What a darling card with the critters!! Happy 24th Anniversary!! Looks like you had a wonderful drive! Thanks so much for sharing the lovely photos!!

Posted by: Maria | 10/08/2017 at 07:13 PM

Happy Anniversary! Beautiful pics!
Love the fun card... darling critters and pretty coloring!

Posted by: Denise Bryant | 10/08/2017 at 04:15 PM

Happy Belated Anniversary, Wanda! We just celebrated ours yesterday (33 though), and we're also very low key. Love your pictures and sounds like a great road trip. Love your coloring and sweet card, too! Hope to do some creating myself this weekend.

Posted by: Kathy Mc | 10/07/2017 at 09:30 AM

Your photos are gorgeous--we need to head up there before the colors are gone. I, too, enjoyed the cooler week, feeling more creative, but afternoons of high 80s to 90 are a bit much. I make fall cards and try to create a fall atmosphere indoors.
Loved your sweet card. I will be thinking of you as I make cards today.

Posted by: Julie | 10/07/2017 at 07:39 AM

Wanda, fun card and spectacular photos!! Happy 24th and wishing you and your husband many many more years of happiness!!
:)

Posted by: Teresa C | 10/07/2017 at 06:19 AM

What a sweet and fun card Wanda! Your photos are amazing!

Posted by: Celeste Goff | 10/07/2017 at 05:15 AM

Beautiful photos Wanda. Happy Anniversary and many more. We are in Texas and it is really hot. Michigan had some really warm temps before we left and now the heat continues... but we are having an awesome trip and will be home in time for Halloween, my favorite holiday. All the best and thanks for sharing the great shot. Happy card making!

Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 10/07/2017 at 05:09 AM