Well some good friends of ours wanted to celebrate their 5 year anniversary with us. They got married 5 years ago in Hawaii at a place called Mama's fish house. It was both of theirs second marriage so they wanted a private wedding with their kids. Anyways I wanted to make them a special card and incorporate Hawaii and Mama's Fish House into the card. Here is what i came up with:
I started with a 5X7 card that I created on my Silhouette Studio software. I then downloaded this design from the Silhouette Online Store. I cut the group at 5 inches tall and broke down each piece. I used different pattern card stock for the different parts. I raised all of it up using foam squares. I used a pre-made border for the flowers along the bottom of the card. I designed the sentiment template in my Silhouette Design Studio. Then using the grenouille font I typed the sentiment in orange to match the flowers in the border. I took two small buttons in coordinating colors and glued to the top and bottom of the sentiment. The sentiment is Happy Anniversary in Hawaiian:
HAU'OLI LA HO'OMANA'O
It was very important that i incorporated Mama's fish house into the card since that is where they got married. I downloaded the grenouille font from www.dafont.com. using my Silhouette software I typed this at .44 inches tall and cut it out. I took some twine and wrapped it around a chrome brad and taped onto the building. I wanted to show their marriage here so I cut the couple using Cricut® Sweethearts Cartridge. I cut this couple at 2.5 inches tall and used foam squares to raise them up.
Here is a closer look at the foam squares I used and how I raised all the pieces up.
The inside of the card I wanted to make VERY special. I found their wedding picture from Mama's fish house on their facebook page. I downloaded the picture and imported it into the Silhouette Designer Edition software and cut it out at 3X5. Then using the offset feature in the software I made an offset at .25". Below that using the same font from the outside I ended with our personal greeting. I used the same border from the outside to tie the inside and outside together. This card got a huge reaction and a big hug!
nice card - i am sure they loved it. i went to mama's fishhouse last year and had a wonderful time. a picture from the beach became our xmas card last year.
ReplyDeleteKenny! That card was awesome! We were blown away. Thank you soooooo much! That card is being saved in our collection of wedding photos and souviners from our wedding. You rock! Mahalol! Tim and Lara
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