This isn’t my usual stamped Stampin’ Up! card but it is extra-special nonetheless as it is a Pandemic Anniversary Card handmade by my husband! Yesterday was our wedding anniversary of many years and he put his cardmaking skills to work to make me this card!

Due to the pandemic, of course, we have been staying out of stores so he hasn’t been able to buy cards for me. But he found a way to make them on the computer! As my son texted last night, “Making cards on the computer! How retro!” I know when we bought our first computer it was really cool to buy some software that had card designs you could make and print out! I don’t know that people do that any more, at least not with software, but there are online sites where you can design cards, apparently!

So the card base is computer paper, not cardstock, and the colors are whatever the printer ink colors are combined together! I think the card design is something similar to the Boho Indigo Medley in the new catalog on page 9. Maybe a little bit like the Forever Fern Bundle!

For Mother’s Day he also tried to make me a card, but it printed out on a full sheet of paper, not a card he could fold up, so this one was progress! But the Mother’s Day “card” was beautiful, the floral designs around the “Happy Mother’s Day” was similar to the florals Stampin’ Up! has been using in their new logos.

I really appreciate my husband going to all this trouble to make cards for me during the pandemic. He got lucky yesterday when I was in the bedroom having a long phone call with a girlfriend and he could work on the computer without me popping in!

I think if he were a stamper, we might have the same style! Even cards he has bought at the store in the past I always like and think I could copy it somewhat with my stamping supplies! Maybe he is subsconsciously absorbing my cardmaking style from being surrounded by Stampin’ Up! products!

Last year I had laryngitis so we didn’t go out for dinner on our anniversary! This year is the pandemic and right now with things being really bad in Houston we aren’t even picking up food right now, not to mention that he just had a partial root canal the other day so can’t chew on that side. Wouldn’t be any fun to go out to eat anyway for him! Maybe the third year will be the charm…next year! If I ever get to go back to my favorite seafood restaurant I am ordering EVERYTHING I love there!!

I hope you get to celebrate your anniversary and other occasions better than we did this year! And I hope WE get to celebrate our anniversary better NEXT year! But the important thing is we HAD an anniversary together and it doesn’t matter if we ate at home or had a card made on the computer.