{"id":1004,"date":"2015-07-27T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:34","slug":"anniversary-card-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2015\/07\/anniversary-card-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary Card Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our (7th!) wedding anniversary is quickly approaching, so I thought I&#8217;d share a recent project I did with our anniversary cards. I collected the anniversary cards we&#8217;ve given each other since we got married and put them into a small scrapbook! I like the idea of using old cards to continue enjoying them (did you see my post on ways to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2014\/12\/using-christmas-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas cards<\/a>?), so I love what I&#8217;ve done with our anniversary cards. Now our cards of love and appreciation to each other are in one pretty place where we can enjoy them at any time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CardBookCollage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CardBookCollage.jpg\" alt=\"Anniversary Card Book - mjblythe.com\" width=\"378\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CardBookCollage.jpg 378w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CardBookCollage-111x300.jpg 111w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CardBookCollage-369x999.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have only included a few pictures: a wedding picture on the title page, and pictures at our 5 year anniversary. That year we had professional photos taken of the two of us, so I put 2 of those in there, and we &#8220;got married&#8221; again in Vegas, so I put one of those photos in too! All the other years so far only have the cards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7374-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"anniversary card book - vegas - mjblythe.com\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7374.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7374-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7374-816x612.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7373-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"anniversary card book - 5 years - mjblythe.com\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7373.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7373-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN7373-816x612.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The album I used is a strap hinge style album from Creative Memories. These scrapbooks have slide-on page protectors. In this album, I have only used the page protectors on 1 page so far (the 5 year anniversary pictures page). On all of the other pages, I wanted to be able to open the cards, so I have not used page protectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenCard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenCard-512x1024.jpg\" alt=\"anniversary card book - open card - mjblythe.com\" width=\"512\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenCard.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenCard-150x300.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenCard-500x999.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a lovely time sorting through our cards and putting this together. It was a quick project and it was fun to see the cards and notes we&#8217;ve exchanged over the years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our (7th!) wedding anniversary is quickly approaching, so I thought I&#8217;d share a recent project I did with our anniversary cards. I collected the anniversary cards we&#8217;ve given each other since we got married and put them into a small scrapbook! I like the idea of using old cards to continue enjoying them (did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,18],"tags":[102,20,104,103],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-paper-crafts","category-wedding","tag-anniversary","tag-cards","tag-love","tag-scrapbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}