Something Borrowed & Something Blue

Today's card is the final wedding card I'll need for our family for 2017. I was inspired by sketch #367 @ the Paper Players and it will be entered @ Happy Little Stampers for "October Anything Goes with Dies", @ Shopping Our Stash for "That's Sketchy" and @ Ike's World for "Anything Goes -Celebrations". 

The tiny wooden stamp I used is from a retired tag set from Stampin' Up and the larger sentiments set is also retired but from Close To My Heart. Both of the dies are from Spellbinder's. The A2 card base and white cardstock layer are a beautiful white shimmer paper, the silver is a shiny mirror paper and the blue wrap with the lace actually came from the wedding invitation itself -so I did a little bit of recycling to make it more personal for my nephew and his new bride.

This is a rather simple card, with just the layers and sentiment stamping, but I did need to utilize the stamp omitting technique to fit the sentiment on the front of the card the way that I wanted to. What that means is that I used the small square sticky note to cover up and ink the separate portions of the stamp so that only the Best Wishes was stamped on the diecut label and the rest on the actual card front. 

This took several steps to get just right in the spacing, but that's where the beauty of a stamp positioning tool comes into play. I played with some scrap paper and gray ink under the diecut frames until I got everything just right and then I committed to the actual card pieces with embossing ink and silver powder. I made sure to also use the Perfect Crafting Pouch to reduce the static on my card stock and keep the embossing powder where it belonged.

The finished card is clean, simple and personalized...hopefully they like it as much as I do, lol! I used foam dot adhesive to pop up the layers of the diecuts. I also heat embossed the inside sentiment. Now all I have to do is wrap the gift before Sunday!

Until next time~

Two Hearts, One Love

Today's card was inspired by the weekly sketch at Atlantic Hearts and will also be entered @ Ike's World for Anything Goes + Embossing, @ Sunny Day Crafts for "E is for Emboss", and @ Craft-Dee BowZ for "Anything Goes + a Handmade Bow".

Today's card was alot of fun to make because I took my design cues and several 3D elements from the actual wedding invitation...the invitation itself was printed on kraft brown cardstock, wrapped in a band of white lace and all the rsvp/reply cards etc were bundled together with the stamped and dated tag and the pink ribbon.

So I started by heat embossing a row of lace in white- stamping it in stacked rows to fill the whole background of the kraft A7 card front

I wanted to use the tag instead of the floral element shown on the sketch, but still wanted to add a small flower accent, so I sponged on pink and navy chalk inks to custom color the white flowers and attached them with a tiny pink heart shaped brad.

Because my nephew proposed to his bride-to-be outdoors and in a wooded area, I wanted to honor that by using the retired SU! skeleton leaves stamp set as part of my design. So I stamped the largest leaf in the two alternating colors down the center of the ivory front panel. 

I then embossed the retired CTMH sentiment in navy and distressed the edges by tearing the right side and sponging on Antique Linen Distress ink along all the edges before wrapping the ribbon from the tag along the left side of the panel and tying a separate bow that I attached with a mini glue dot.

Before attaching the center panel, I used a piece of vellum as a layer to soften the background.

The inside I kept sweet and simple by embossing the sentiment in navy like I did on the front and stamping a smaller leaf in pink chalk ink on an ivory panel. This card will go with us on a 2+ hr journey next weekend to celebrate the love of one of my nephews and his lovely bride to be!

Until next time~