A Golden Wedding Anniversary gift

This may be the only card I make for 2012! I'm so not a card maker but as it was my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary last friday I decided to make a card for them.

I got this idea from a friends Facebook wall she'd done a similar thing for her 

fathers 70th birthday. Here's a link to the blog that inspired the idea.

My sisters and I wrote, emailed, rang, and pm'd- relatives, friends, neighbors, and 

old work mates of our parents. 

We asked them to send us memories they had of our parents during the past fifty years.

Then we presented these to Mum and Dad on their anniversary.

We received back some beautiful, funny and heartfelt 

accounts of peoples memories, Some people even sent 

photo's to us which was wonderful.

There were tears and much laughter.

The grandchildren read aloud their memories of Granny and Pa, 

and we took turns in reading out the others.

It was a great surprise and they loved hearing from family and friends some

of whom they hadn't seen in years.

I used a Bellah bloom from the D-Lish scraps shop

I also used the pearl spray, kraft tag, resin flower and paper doiley.

I also cut out the white tag from some of the D-Lish packaging which is part of the shops logo.

I added a tag I made using some one of those Kraft tags and journal spots from D-Lish.

The metal birdcage and wooden button are also from D-Lish.

Here's how we presented our gift.

Of course on Saturday night when we celebrated their anniversary with 

some family and friends it rained most of the evening!!! But we did manage to catch this photo

of Mum and Dad with their 4 Daughters, Sons-in-Law and Grandchildren. And several umbrella's!!!

Glad you liked it Mum and Dad. xox

Thanks also to everyone who sent us their memories. It was 

very much appreciated.