Today's craft comes to you via an Evite I received from a mommy friend of mine. Her parents just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. The Evite wasn't to attend a party for them, as they would be out of the country on their anniversary, but to do something much more special for them. The 'invitees' were asked to send them an anniversary card. The plan was for them to return home and see all the wonderful anniversary wishes from their friends and family. They are blessed with amazing children who thought up this wonderful idea and it gave me such 'warm and fuzzies' that I couldn't wait to send my card.
Of course the crafter in me would not allow me to go and buy a card from the store. For this special occasion I needed to make something just as special. Here is what I created.
Happy Anniversary Richard and Libby! Here's wishing you 20 more glorious years together!
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| The front |
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| The inside |
*** 10-08-13 EDIT ***
What a wonderful surprise for Libby and Richard. Read on to see what they had to say about this heartfelt anniversary surprise party!
Dear Friends and Family,
Thank you all for your greetings and good wishes in celebration of our 20th wedding anniversary.
When we returned from our trip we had an “official” US Postal Service tub of mail waiting. Bills and catalogues, right? We had no idea what was going on when found greeting card after greeting card as well as emails and phone messages all from very special friends and family!
You would have enjoyed watching a couple of jet-lagged confused travelers trying to understand why and how. One of our neighbors had to explain that it was an Surprise Anniversary Card Party.
Thanks to our adult children for their creativity and effort in putting this together.
With love,
Richard & Libby
They were even kind enough to include a picture. I'm so happy that they were surprised and that their "party" was such a huge success!
Side note {well because I just have too!}: It's too bad the post office couldn't keep from destroying the key -- next time I'll be sure to put "fragile" on the envelope. Lesson learned.
2 comments:
Wow! What a great idea. I love your card too.
Kathleen it was SO much fun to do this for them. They are a sweet couple and I thought what their children did for them was wonderful. I really enjoyed making the card because I had the chance to use the print and cut feature of my Silhouette {something I just learned how to do...lol} and it worked perfectly! I love crafts like this! :-)
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