A New Quartet of Anniversary Cards

July is an excellent time for a wedding--and we've had several in our family in high summer.  One in the mountains of Denver, another on the coast of Nantucket Island, one in Ohio, and one in Hawaii.

These cards are a variation on the June kit I took to our card-making group. I used the gray and yellow color scheme again with patterned paper, card base and outline matting.  The  paper flowers were from other sets of embellishments from my stash.

This one I like, but the blooms are too centered--and all the same size.

I added some dewdrops of pearls and sequins to tone down the busy background.

This version has a variety of sizes of paper blooms.

I kept this one simple with only the addition of some Wink of Stella on the leaves.

The background is more subtle, making the bee stand out.

This design has some more movement with the bee, the position of the blooms and the leaf stem (right) and leaf cluster (left) touching the banner sentiment.  The split end of the banner turns the eye right around to take in more details and, most importantly, not leave the card front.

This last card design is more striking in contrast with mostly white blooms and a stylized and high contrast pattern in the background.  The leaves are satin ribbon with rhinestone dewdrops I added.  The sentiment is heat embossed with silver.  The hummingbird picks up the green of the leaves.

All cards are on a stone grey base.

A nice quartet of anniversary wishes!