Grateful For You

we went to menza last night for dinner and i had my usual - pumpkin soup and grilled goat cheese salad, yummy. i also had a lemonade (pronounced lemonaaadeh) which is a lemonade with lemon, lime and orange slices in it. most restaurants here have a version of it, and i plan to consume as many as i can this spring/summer! we walked there and back; so nice that the warm evenings are here now!

the boy* (as in bf, partner, so, fh, boytoy, etc) and i were celebrating our anniversary. in addition to dinner out, i got 2 bunches of flowers. the poor guy had no idea what was in store for him when he left his simple, routine life in the netherlands, and it's been quite a ride so far! and although our cultural differences surprised us both many times, i am very grateful for all that he does and he does work very hard for us, in many different ways. here's the card i made for him:
the paper is from a spring mini kit freebie from kevinandamanda. the paper is actually teal but i used the colour balance in photoshop to add more blue, then darkened it using levels. the ribbon i bought here, the brad came with a kit, and the border punch is fiskars. the "grateful" is my handwriting and i put it together in indesign and printed it directly on the kraft paper. we just bought a new printer (epson stylus photo px700w) which i'm liking a lot so far. the inspiration is from this week's sketch at 2 sketches 4 you.

thanks for looking!

*he's younger than me, i called him that from the beginning and it's stuck :)