2 Year Anniversary

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Hiya Nesters!  Welcome to this special Saturday edition of Temporary Nest. Today is a special day for me.  Matt and I are celebrating our 2 year anniversary.  {It's actually Monday, but who wants to celebrate their anniversary on a Monday? Not us!} It may not seem ground breaking or even all that significant since we're not married or engaged. But Matt is so wonderfully special to me, if you haven't noticed by his frequent cameos in my adventures.  And I'll be honest, before him, I had never celebrated a first anniversary, let alone a second!  

So of course, an anniversary calls for another hand made card.  This one I struggled with.  The ornament card for Christmas was a no brainer. It just "came to me."  But what signifies two years together?  It could be an inside joke, a significant place, a picture of us. {Only now, I'm thinking 2 birds would have been nice and a cute little homage to TN.}

Home.  

Almost all of our adventures revolve around making our houses into our homes.  We look at real estate online for fun.  Someday we will make our own home.  But mostly when I'm with him, it feels like home.  {God, I'm such a horrific cheeseball.}

I looked at all my craft paper, and what signifies home and solidity more than bricks? Sweet! Luckily, I had some brick wall craft paper! Perfect! And I wanted to just write the number "2" it to look almost like graffiti.  First I tried cutting it out of paper to glue on it.  But it didn't come out right so I scrapped it. 

So I sketched out a couple of tries.

They were rough sketches... trust me.  But the last one had something, so I worked on it. shaping it the way I wanted, then cut it out with an Exacto knife.

Then instead of gluing the cut out onto the card, I used this as a stencil and traced it onto the card lightly with pencil.  Then traced it over with my beloved Silver Sharpie.

I took my white out pen and and highlighted a couple of corners just for some added definition. 

And then I wrote a sweet note on the inside that I'll keep between the two of us. 

So there you have it, Nesters! Another year, another card another mini-how-to!  In case you were wondering, {lets be real, you probably weren't...}  Matt has a mystery date planned for us today.  I just know I have to be at his condo at 1:15 SHARP! Right after class.  And I have no clue what we're doing but I already know I am one lucky gal.

Happy Saturday!