Happy 50th Anniversary

My mom and dad had their 50th anniversary this month!  We all went out to a special dinner at Hy's and they will be going to Japan later this year to celebrate too.  I wanted to make a card from all of us to help commemorate their milestone anniversary.  I had so much fun making it and was really happy with how it turned out.

There is a snow topped Mt. Fuji that I cut out from Sahara Sand and Whisper White.  The puffy clouds on the Soft Sky card base were made using sponge daubers and Whisper White craft ink.  The 50th anniversary year was written on the 3/4" Real Red circle with a journaling pen.  For the cute little couple, I made them out of the new Lemon Builder punch:

• The head is the lemon shape punched out of Powder Pink.  For their bangs, it's a little over 1/2 of the lemon shape punched out of Basic Black.  For the girl, the ends of the lemon shape were covered with 3/4" circles for little buns.  Then for the boy, the ends were trimmed off so his head was more circular.  For the faces, I used the 05 size journaling pen and an eraser top in Powder Pink classic ink for the cheeks. 
• For each kimono, the lemon shape was punched out of designer paper.  Then the V was cut from one end and a 3/4" circle punched from Powder Pink was mounted to the back for the neck.   The obi (belt) is a 1/2" wide strip also cut from coordinating designer paper and attached to the kimono.  Then silver cord was wrapped around the middle.
• The head and body were attached with the heads tilted towards each other.   Then the cute couple was attached to the card using dimensionals.  As a final touch for the girl, I used a silver heart from the metallic enamel shapes and some flowers in her hair with rhinestones.

Thank you mom and dad for everything.  And it's only fitting that you were the inspiration for my favorite card ever!

Supplies

Here are the supplies that were used to make this card.  You may also notice some retired items in this card--the designer paper, which is from Sale A Bration a few years ago, the Washi Punch, the Word Window punch and the little flower punch--these retired items are not included on the supply list.