Wedding Wishes & Love

Hi, I am excited to share this card with you but more so

for the reason behind it.

My son lives in Colorado and I live in Arizona so I don't

get to see him very often.  He did surprise us and show up

for Thanksgiving along with his fiance, we just love her and she

makes my son very happy.  I had to make them a special card for

their wedding.

 I created following the sketch this week over

at Die Cutting Divas.  I flipped the center piece but otherwise

followed the sketch.

It is a half size card or an 8 1/2 by 11 cardstock folded in half so

it is a larger card. I cut the loopy center oval using a Gina Marie die, then layered a plain oval cut from pearl linen paper. 

I struggled so long to figure out what I wanted to put in the center, then 

I saw this heart cut with the swirls using the Wall Decor Cricut cartridge and my Explore.  Then I cut the word love also with my Explore, both the swirls and the love are cut from gold mirror paper.  So hard to take a good picture of this

kind of paper, but this card is beautiful in person.  The top paper is a very pretty pearl paper that is embossed, I got it from the single sheets at Michaels.

The sentiment is also a die cut and is stamped using a Stampin Up stamp and heat embossed in gold.  The bottom strip of paper is also from Michaels single sheets and is very sparkly and glittery. 

So with all this sparkle & shine and love, this card also fits into

this month's Power & Sparkle Challenge over at the Power Poppy blog.

I just have to finish up the inside of this card and then it will be already to hand deliver to them at their wedding Colorado.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by, have a great week.

Challenges entered:

Die Cuttin Divas -  sketch must have a die cut - ends 2/12

Power & Spark - Love and/or Sparkle - ends 2/28

A Gem of a Challenge - Have a Heart - end 2/15

All Sorts Challenge - Love is in the Air - ends 2/15

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 2 or more layers - ends 2/28

Wedding Card

Hola everyone.  Today I have a card to share

with you that I made a month or so ago.  My daughter and her

husband were going to Wisconsin for their niece's wedding,

(which incidentally is today) and asked me if I could make a wedding card for them.  So using one of Bird's Card files I made this card.

The colors for the wedding was Fall colors so I used the flowers to bring that color theme into the card. The flowers are cut from vellum and colored with alcohol markers. It is hard to see in the picture but all the papers are pearl-like papers. I had made this same card a couple of years ago in 

all white, if you want to check it out click HERE. 

Because of the flowers and a lot of the layers are popped I had to make a box for the card to go in.  

Well that's it, just wanted to make sure and share this card with you

before I forgot about it since I don't have it in front of me anymore.

Make sure you head on over and check our Bird's Cards, she has some awesome files, many of which she shares for free.  

Challenges entered: 

Bird's Facebook - use one of her files

Crafting with Friends - Anything goes ends 9/21

Cut it Up - Use die cut Name games ends 9/30  "d" die for Donna

PolkaDoodles - Anything goes ends 9/23

Wedding Card

Hello everyone, hope you have great plans for this Mother's Day weekend.

I have a wedding card to share with you that I made for my niece that is getting married and I am unable to attend so I wanted to make something special.

I can not take credit for this card as when I saw the card on the Team KNK blog I knew that was the special card I had to make, so it is totally scraplifted.

The cut files are all designed and set up my a lady that goes by Bird.  She

is so very talented and extremely generous as she shares are her files for FREE, so make sure you go check out her blog.

My card is pretty much a replica of hers except that I added a touch of pewter color as that is the wedding color.  Everything was cut using Bird's files, Make the Cut software and my Cameo.

Just like Bird I used a variety of paper textures, mostly pearl white textured papers.  I embossed parts of the cake to give it a little decorative look. 

Here is a close up of the flowers & leaves that are all made from vellum. 

I carried the same theme to the inside.  I printed the verse on vellum using my Canon printer.  The ink does not dry immediately on vellum so the second it came out of the printer I sprinkled it with pewter/silver embossing powder and heat embossed it.  I did the same thing on the small saying on the front of the card.

I added a couple stickers to dress up the inside.

Since this card was a bit bulky and it had to be mailed it would not go into a regular envelope so I made an envelope box for it's travel from Arizona to Chicago.

Here it is all tucked away in it's envelopbox.  I place this into a padded envelope and added some foam and other packing to make sure it arrived safely. 

I got word that it did arrive at it's destination safely. :).

In case you are no familiar with Make the Cut software you should check it out HERE,  It is by far the best die cutting software out there.

Well thank you for stopping by, I would love to hear what you think about

my wedding card.

Hope everyone has a very Happy Mother's Day.

Wedding Card

Hi, I know it seems like ages since I have posted on my blog.  It has been one of those times when life has just been busy.  I have been creating, but just have not had the time to type up a post.
We had a wedding to go to yesterday so here is the wedding card I made.

I have had this background paper for many years and thought it was great to use on a wedding card.  I cut the heart out of pearl pink paper using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  The sentiment is a Gina K stamp and the heart along side the sentiment are buttons.

I recently started making stick pins so I added a cross to this one and stuck it through a bow I made out of crinkled ribbon.   I love making them and I can easily see how this may become an addiction.  

Well thanks for taking to the time to peak in on my blog, I would love to hear what you think of this card.

Wedding Card with crumpled flowers

I have a couple weddings coming up and with my Mom here I need to make two for each one.  I think sometimes simple is very elegant and that is how this one came out.

The paper is all pearl white with a shimmer to it and embossed with a Quickutz folder.  The flowers were cut using my Cricut (can't remember what cartridge) then sprayed them with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist and crumpled them up.  I did not crumple them as much as usual, but each flower has 3 layers, then I glued a pearl in the center.  The two doves were stickers that I had planned to suspend the piece of ribbon between and while I was laying it out it fell in the shape of a heart, how perfect was that!  Wedding colors are silver and blue and so I went with that theme.

Thanks for stopping by and I just love reading comments. :)

Wedding Cake - New Beginnings CCC Challenge 101

Again I am extremely thrilled to be a Guest Designer on the Crafty Creations Challenge blog this month.

This week the challenge was to make something for a "new beginning"; birth, wedding, engagement, etc.........  That was the only limitation for the challenge so it was pretty wide open and it will be very interesting to see the different project created by all the amazing talent out there.  Go ahead give it a try and post your creation using the link on the CCC blog.
I have a couple of weddings coming up this year so it was easy for me to chose which new beginning I wanted to use.  I made this wedding cake using a digital image from My Grafico, if you are like me you are always looking for new digital images, check them out.

 There was not a lot to color on this image but the white was just too plain, so I shaded it around the edges and lines with very very light chalk using light blue and gray.  You can not really see it in the photo but it does give it depth in person.  The wedding colors are dark blue & silver, so I used papers in those colors that have a very shimmery/pearlized look to them.  I get the paper from Paper and More, they have such pretty papers and their customer service is outstanding, order some samples and see for yourself, plus shipping on the samples in only $1, can't beat that.
I colored the flowers and leaves using my ProMarkers that you can purchase at Carpediem Store for only $1.49 each.  I used Blue Pearl and Cobalt Blue on the flowers, for the leaves I used Meadow Green and Apple.  After I colored the flowers I put Ranger Crackle Accents on them, which gave them an unusual look, here is a close up to see the effect it gave them.

I printed and colored the image twice and the bottom off of the top one and pop dotted it on top of the other one, I like the way it gave the cake more dimension.  The cake was mounted on Spellbinder Labels Ten.  The "wedding wishes" was stamped and heat embossed with a dark blue embossing powder.

I also finished the inside using one of those same Spellbinder labels, the sentiment was computer generated and the paper that I printed it on does not dry very fast so with embossing powder in hand I pour it on as soon as it came out of the printer and I was able to emboss the inside.  I edged it using one of Martha Stewart edge punches.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I would love to here your comments.   Again stop by Crafty Creations Challenge and check out all the other talent.