Spellbinders | 20th Anniversary Card feat. a Beaver and a Panda!

My husband and I celebrated our Champagne Anniversary yesterday! If you’re not familiar with this term, a Champagne Anniversary or Champagne Birthday is when the number of years matches the date that the occasion falls on. We celebrated 20 years of marriage on March 20th and it’s a big deal so this called for a very special card, of course! 😉

 

I used several of my favourite Spellbinders products on this 4.25×6″ card, including the Dancin’ Birthday Panda, Let’s Celebrate Sentiments Press Plate and Die Set and, of course, the Cherry sheet from the Doodlebug Gingham-Linen Rainbow Petite Prints 12×12″ Cardstock Paper Pack.

Wait, what? Is that a beaver, you say? Yes… yes, it is! Did Spellbinders release a beaver die?! No, I dreamt it up using the Dancin’ Birthday Panda and the Dancin’ Birthday Monster! I’ll tell you how I did it but, first, I wanted to let you know that after using the panda a few times, I noticed something shocking – she doesn’t have a jacket! So I basically cut two panda torsos and used that die to make a second cut across that the second black piece to create her little jacket. Now she looks like a real panda. 😉

Now for the beaver. If you’re familiar with the Dancin’ Birthday Monster, you’ll noticed that most of the parts are from the monster. I partially die cut the body and bottom of the head from the monster die. To finish the head, I used the top of the panda’s head so that they were joined. However, the ears were too big and wide for the monster’s head, and beavers have small ears, so I trimmed around the panda ears to create a smooth connection to the rest of the monster’s head. The beaver’s tail was created from the panda’s torso and the Diamond Plaid Embossing Folder.

Let’s talk about that sentiment though. I love how it turned out and I can’t stop looking at it. I mean, I also can’t stop jiggling the card and making this couple dance! LOL Since the sentiments are from Let’s Celebrate Sentiments Press Plate, they were meant to be BetterPressed, but I decided to heat foil them. I used Cobalt Blue Hot Foil for the bottom two lines and Gold Hot Foil for the anniversary part. The bit of overlap is just so cool!

To finish the card, I cut out Smart Glasses in frames that look exactly like my glasses and my husband’s glasses. I was desperate to fit in the numbers and decided to use the small Be Bold Lowercase Alphabet and Numbers as balloons. The gold string is Light Gold DMC Diamant Grande Metallic Thread.