Fall colors Wedding card

We have a wedding to go in early November and the wedding colors are Fall colors.  At first I thought that this colors might be a bit dark for a wedding card, but in the end I like the way it came out.

Since I needed to work with Fall colors I pulled out my DCWV Autumn stack from last year, this is still one of my favorite paper stacks.  I chose the dark red paper that has a slight black line design to it.  The base of the card is white pearl paper and I left a small edge of the white behind the red paper.  I embossed the top half of the background paper, but since the paper was thin it torn a bit and you can see the white, but I think that kind of gave it a nice effect and picked up the white border.  The border across the center is a very very pretty pearl like gold paper, it is so hard to see that in the picture.  I cut the border from the Martha Stewart All Occasion Cake art cartridge, and saved some of the small hearts and glue them on the bottom half of the card.

The heart were also cut from the MS All Occasion cartridge.  I printed the names on a piece of pearl white paper in brown and immediately sprinkled it with clear embossing powder the second it came out of the printer.  The pearl paper doesn't dry as fast so you have that window that you can sprinkle it with the embossing powder and then heat emboss it.
Now the tricky part was getting the hearts to cut out exactly around the names.  I used the "hinge" method.  I set up the hearts in my Gypsy then cut them from just plain white card stock, then took the hearts off the mat but left the rest on the mat and placed a piece of tape across the top.
Then I lifted that piece off the mat like a hinge leaving it attached at the top and slipped my printed piece of paper under the template to line up the printed names under the cut out hearts.  You can see my arrows of which way I had to move each heart to get them lined up.

 Stuck my printed piece to the mat, removed the template (hinged piece) and loaded it in my Cricut to cut.  I think I made it a bit harder on myself by trying to cut out both name hearts at the same time instead of doing them individually.

Are here are the hearts cut out.

 I hope this makes sense.  There is a video out there on You Tube on how to do this.  I am not too good at tutorials but I am trying
I then place pearls alternating small and tiny pearls around the hearts, cranberry colored on hers and brown on his.    The "Wedding Wishes" is stamped and heat embossed in gold.  I still have one more card to make for this wedding (for my Mom) so hope to get that posted in the next couple of days.

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Challenges for this card
Crafty Card Makers  Anything goes   ends - 10/16
Creatalicious Challenge  Anything goes   end - 10/14
Make it Monday  Always anything goes   ends - 10/16
ABC challenge  Anything goes   ends  10/13

Fall Sunflower Birthday

Well according to the calendar it is Fall, but you can't tell by the temperatures we have been having here is Arizona.  We have still been in the high 90s, I am so ready for it to cool off.  So I thought making a Fall like card might help me remember it is Fall.  This image is a freebie JustInked image that I got to use for participating in the CDAC Progressive Challenge.  It is a lot of fun and if you want to get in on it the cost is only $1, it was free if you started from the beginning. You get a set of new images to work with every two weeks.   Check out the CDAC link HERE as the new images come on October 1st just a few days away.

I am really working on coloring with my Copics and feel like I am making some progress.  I colored the sunflower and the butterfly I did twice so I could layer the second one on top.  The top butterfly I covered with Crackle Accents to make it a little stronger and to give it shine and texture.  After I colored the sunflower I had a little trouble trying to figure what colors I should use on the butterfly.  Then when I picked out the paper I was going to use for the frame it helped me to pick the colors. The paper is from the DCWV Autumn stack from last year, hard to see in the picture but there are light dots on it.  The whole frame background is pop dotted to give it more of a framed/window look.   The happy birthday I cut using the Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art cartridge and flood filled the color using my Imagine to match my color scheme.  Love my Imagine for being able to get that perfect color I need.  The leaves in the corner are from a package I bought last year at Michaels and I added a brad I made using my i-Top brad maker.  I love that thing, it makes it so easy to make something to match your project.

Here is a closer shot of the butterfly.  If you look close you can see some of the crackle.  I also used my chalked to shade the white behind the image to tone down the white a bit.  To set the chalk I sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist and it also gave it a bit of shimmer.  This card is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, (a letter sized piece of paper folded in half) I am really beginning to enjoy making these bigger cards, something I have been inspired to do by blogging buddy at The Cricut Couple blog.  OMG if you have never visited there blog you are really missing something.  They have to be some of the most talented card makers out there.

I am so glad you stopped by today, I really do love to read you comments so let me know what you think of this card.  I will be my daughter's birthday card (hope she doesn't visit my blog) which is in November.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday   Always anything goes   ends  - 10/2