My In-Law’s anniversary is just a couple of days before ours. All my energy went into their 45th anniversary party, so all my dh got was this little card!

The silver title was done with Cricut’s Base Camp cartridge. I hit “apply” on kerning without changing the number then nudged a few of the letters to the left, selecting “weld.” After cutting it out on silver from DCWV’s glitter stack I snipped between each letter almost to the edge, leaving about 1/8 of an inch intact. The cut-out letters didn’t pop enough so I backed each letter with scrap paper from creating the chocolate brown card (DCWV cardstock stack.) A glue pen makes this process a breeze.

The rest of the cuts were made with the new Cricut Storybook cartridge. Even with the “wish” theme, my husband thought the dandelion pod was fireworks! So I’ll be interested to know what everyone else thinks it is! The dandelion mat and icon’s shadow were cut on a copper sheet from Wausau Paper’s Metallics Cardstock. And, I thought the green scrolly flower print from Basic Grey complimented the silver/brown/copper palette perfectly. The green velvet rick-rack ribbon, also from Basic Grey, was a little tricky to adhere. I used Zots ultrathin clear adhesive lines, applying an inch or so of the adhesive at a time, laying the ribbon down on top.

I distressed all the edges with vintage photo ink and stamped several “eights”, “xoxoxo”, and a heart with the same ink. All the stamps were from Studio G sets. My white gell pen came in handy to add highlights to the copper sentiment, otherwise it doesn’t pop on the brown paper.

I applied a manilla tag to the inside, as a nice finishing touch for the sentiment. The rosebud charm from “Paper Bliss” brought the silver accent over to the inside. I had to explain to dh though that {brackets} mean “hugs” in internet speak! Somehow I figured he wouldn’t know that since the only internet community he hangs out on is for UFC!

If any of you have as hard of a time as I do coming up with card designs for the male loved ones in our lives I thought you might appreciate the .cut file: “ With You My Wish Came True ,” but you have to right click on it, then choose “save-as” and type “.cut” after the file name. It should then open right up in Cricut Design Studio software.

Update: Thanks to Cricut for selecting this card for the Newsletter on 8/25th!

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