Queendom Relics by Rea'

Monday, June 24, 2013

June Monthly Challenge : Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue


June Monthly Challenge

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue... June Challenge at Inspiration Emporium http://blog.inspirationemporium.com/.  This past Friday , June 21st, I celebrated my 33rd Wedding Anniversary. I've been dying to use my 3-D Accordion Album die by Karen Burniston. I've been seeing all these cool projects made with it so I decided to give it a try. I made my anniversary card.
My wedding song was " One In A Million" by Larry Graham ( my husband sang it to me while we were dating, so it became our song). Every year for the past  thirty-two years we start our anniversary day with a dance to One In a Million ( yeah... yeah mushy... I know), so I decided to use the title on my card; I got married in a yellow dress and he wore a yellow shirt that matched my dress, hence the yellow background  for my card. I used papers from  DCWV's The Primrose Stack. I chose the musical note sheet and a couple of other  sheets from which I fussy cut flowers, the bird and the butterfly. I inked all my edges with vintage photo distressing ink. I fussy cut two of my favorite photos from our special day ( something old)  and adhered them to the labels. I  Added some dimensional flower stickers from Jolee's  Boutique ( something new) that matched the flowers from the paper perfectly. I place these in the corners of the frames adding depth. On the first frame I put "One In A Million" in white glitter letters from Recollections ( something borrowed). And I used pop dots to pop up a butterfly ( something blue)... that was fun !!
Often times I will have an idea of what I want to create but it's difficult to get it from my head to my hands, but this project "translated" well ... I was pleased with my first 3-D Accordion Album ... was a little tricky at points but I was pleased. I actually dreamt this project after looking through some of my stash! My husband loved it too !


14 comments:

  1. Rea, this is such a special card and I love all the symbolism you put into it. Doesn't that accordion album die rock? Thank you so much for joining in our June challenge over at Inspiration Journal. =)

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    1. Thank you Lisa! And yes that die does rock, now that I know how to do it ( it was a little intimidating at first) I'll have to do more :)

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  2. Super wedding anniversary tribute, i love the accordion style perfect with the pictures you've used, gorgeous make x

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    1. Thank you Toni! Thanks for visiting my blog too :)

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  3. Lovely album! I have that die so now I have more inspiration for how to use it :)

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  4. Thank you Manda ! It is so awesome I've seen many projects done with this die and that's what gave me the "boost" I needed to try it !

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  5. Beautiful card - congratulations on 33 years! Nicola x

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  6. This is just lovely! Congrats on your anniversary! I so want to use my new die like this...it is just finding time! Thanks for sharing with us at Inspiration Emporium June Wedding Challenge!



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  7. Thank you Sue! I so understand the thing about time, I was letting my crafting time slip away from me... I had to change that... I NEED MY ME TIME LOL !

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  8. Rea, I love your project and love your story! I think that it is wonderful that you start each anniversary with a dance to 'your song'. Congrats on celebrating 33 years. The time certainly hasn't faded your beauty! Happy creating. :)

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  9. Cathy , Thank you for your wonderful compliments!

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  10. WOW!!!! I love this die cut, but you've transformed it with gorgeous papers and wonderful photos! This is sooooo beautiful Rea!

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  11. Thank you Anita! I always love it when you stop by :) !

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