Here's a story for you:
When my brother brought Jim home to New York from USC for Christmas 1974, I felt "something" at our first meeting at the airport. Within a week I knew he would be my guy forever. He didn't know it yet. But when he left on NY Day, we vowed to keep in touch, and with MANY long-distance phone calls (remember them?) and near-daily letters, we did. On June 9, 1975 I moved to California, and we moved in together on June 20th! We were engaged by July 4th, and got married the following March. Our wedding was a bittersweet affair - Jim's dad was terminally ill, so we moved our June NY wedding to his parents' living room in March. Two days before our wedding the family-friend judge who was supposed to marry us had a stroke. After a full day of phone calls, a justice of the CA Supreme Court agreed to do the job. My parents flew out, my brother played guitar, and the 13 guests were solemn, but it was one of the 4 happiest days of my life. And here we are, 49 years later, with 3 fabulous kids (the other 3 happiest days of my life), 10 incredible grandkids, and wonderful memories of our life together. Could I be any more blessed?
Happy Anniversary, Jim! You're still my guy!
And I made a cheesy card. But I used some new products and I'll show you the new Cheers & Sips stamps and dies:
I mean, what kind of card do you make for a guy with whom you've spent a lifetime? I just wanted to celebrate our years together...
The drink glasses were cut with the Cheers & Sips dies directly from the Celebratory Sips designer series paper. The die does not cut out the sprig of (what is that?) basil (?) in the glass, but there is a stamp for it. After stamping and coloring it, I used another die to cut it out, matching up the stem to it looks like what was in the patterned paper.
Then the letters...I wanted to use the Mini Alphabet dies, but they don't include numbers. Fortunately I have held onto my "vintage" Playful Alphabet dies, so I cut those out of the designer paper (there is a full page of images that look like what you put in wine glasses, so I just took three of them and cut out the letters).
The background DSP is also from the same package.
And inside:
Yeah, cheesy and silly, but just perfect for my guy!
Happy Anniversary to us!
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Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad
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