I can show you a special card now...

That the person in question has received it,

opened it and sent me an email.
WARNING... Long post..grab a cuppa

I made a card last week for Paul's mum

Sadly Paul's dad passed away in 2003

At Christmas and he is missed lots

But on the 15th it would have been their 

55th wedding anniversary

So to let Paul's mum know we we're thinking of her

We made a card

I have put WE as I made the card 

but Paul thought of the verse.

Paul is rather good at verses

I have cried when receiving my birthday cards

a couple of times.

I made a book easel card

I bought the template from 

Clipart Fairy blog
They have some amazing designs
I did spend some time re sizing and adding the picture
Then using my machine to die cut all the parts for the flowers
Also after cutting out the parts I applied glitter round the edges of the top two pages to make them stand out a little and to make it look prettier
here it is

As you can see I put a picture on of the day they got married
55 years ago
I did change the picture as it was in black and white
and I adjusted it to a brown colour
so it would match the rest of the card

on the left is the amazing verse written by Paul

As you can see I printed the verse onto thick paper
in brown font and attached it to the bottom of the card
the reason being is the font on the actual book easel card was fairly small

This is the verse

Mum, just a card to remember Dad

A father and husband we all once had

Thinking of you on this memorable day

Of you and Dad in our thoughts will stay

To say we miss him as am sure you do

Is an understatement, but one that’s true

Our lives go on and time passes by

But Dad is still with us and I’ll tell you why

We think about him every day

He’s in our hearts and minds and when we pray

He hears our thoughts and love transcended

Knowing that life has never really ended

So here’s to you both on this day we remember

Your Anniversary – fifteenth September

how bad am I.. reading this back made my eyes water.

I also made a simple box for it to go into you can see it here with the card

I added flowers to match the card and then peel off's

The email we received was lovely
Paul's mum loved the card and reading the verse made her cry
for both happy and sad reason's
and she thanked us for remembering
Which makes making this card so worth it
I wasn't going to enter this into any challenges
but Paul said why not !!!
so here they are

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Flowers and Swirls
Make it Monday -Anything Goes
One stitch at a time - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp -  Mulitfold cards / Creations

And if your still reading
thanks for stopping by xx