Word Power #2

My niece got married on February 2 and I thought the card I made for their wedding would be a great entry into Word Power's second challenge. 

My sister gave me a set from Stampin' Up that included the wonderful sentiment which was the starting point of my card.  Altenew's Framed Die was layered up around it and then the fun began with making the arrangement.  Susie sent me the colors in her bouquet and I proceeded to cut Spellbinder's Be Bold Blooms, Honey Bee's Wildflower poppy and Dogwood blossoms and TH's Wildflower from white cardstock, blending them with a variety of inks to get the colors I wanted.  Susie included a red poppy in her bouquet because it was my mother's favorite flower.  

I colored more flowers and my daughter used them to make a similar card without a sentiment but I neglected to take a picture of it.  Lisa was hoping that Susie would frame the two of them together. I do know she was delighted with both cards. 

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Just Us Girls #679 - Word Week

It's coming up to wedding month and that is the word Lisa K has chosen for Word Week at Just Us Girls.

I already have a card made for my granddaughter's wedding so this one will be saved for future use.

I got this Sizzix embossing folder a while ago thinking it would make great wedding or anniversary cards. I rubbed Lost Shadow Oxide Ink on the folder before sending it through my die cutting machine. I placed the panel on some silver cardstock and added the embossed sentiment from The Greetery.   It's softer and prettier in real life.

Now it's your turn to make a wedding card.  There's plenty of inspiration from the Design Team and our guest Claire on the blog.  Who knows?  Guest designing may be in your future if you enter the winning card. 

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Can You Handle the Pressure? Hearts

Happy Birthday to Can You Handle the Pressure?!  They have been going strong for a year, encouraging us to use our embossing folders.  I have quite a few that haven't seen any love in quite a while but the one on my card today is fairly new.

It's a Stampin' Cut and Emboss from SU that my sister gave me called Bouquet of Love.  I thought it would make a wonderful wedding card for my granddaughter who is getting married in October.  Nothing like planning ahead. 😁  The heart is layered for dimension and the panel mounted on Altenew Rose Gold metallic cardstock.  Their Rose Gold embossing powder was used on the sentiment from The Greetery and cut with a die from the same SU set. 

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CAS(E) This Sketch #364

CAS(E) This Sketch is going back to their beginnings with their sketch this week. I was blogging in 2012 when they began but I guess I hadn't found their challenge yet.  Now's my chance to use the sketch for the first time.

If you were wondering where your SSS Brilliant Gifts die was, Michele, I have it.  I cut it from plain gold and then a number of gold and white patterns.  When it came time for the sentiment I was going to use an anniversary one but gold is for the 50th and I don't have anyone to send it to so I went with wedding wishes from The Greetery.  I don't have anyone in mind for that either but a wedding will probably happen sooner. 

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Addicted to CAS #162

June seems to be wedding month (I have four anniversaries in my family) so it was such an appropriate word that Vicki picked for this week's challenge at Addicted to CAS.

I recently purchased the hemstich ovals (and circles) to go with my rectangles, and used them to make a place for my WPlus9 roses and the silver embossed Verve sentiment.  Damask embossing added some wonderful texture.

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you so please check out their cards.  We hope to see you make a wedding card and enter it in our gallery.

Just Us Girls #395

It's photo week at Just Us Girls and Nancy has this delicious looking one for you to be inspired by.

I saw that scrolled heart and knew exactly that I was going to base my card on it, making a wedding card for a soon to be married grandson.

For the background I white embossed a stamp from CP.  I actually did this three times, once with Sparkle embossing powder and once with Perfect Pearls but they both looked too yellow to me so I went with the white one. The scrolled heart is from Serendipity and I keep forgetting I have it.  It came to mind the minute I saw the heart in the photo.  The sentiment is silver embossed on a scalloped oval of vellum and to add more silver, I took a cardboard heart and heat embossed it in silver three times to give it a smooth finish.

How will you be inspired by the photo?  Will you do cookies?  Or something all in white?  Whatever it is, we'd love to see your creation in the gallery.  If you need some inspiration, check out what the Design Team has done.

CAS(E) This Sketch #177 and Mod Squad

I had a chance to make some cards over the weekend and this one for CAS(E) This Sketch is up first.

The flourish is from GinaK and was in my Stamp of Approval kit.  I embossed it in silver along with the PB sentiment and then did something totally out of character for me - I blinged it!  There were circles where each of the pale blue rhinestones are.  Yes, they are pale blue but my photo editing didn't want them to appear that way evidently.

Mod Squad's theme is Wedded Bliss and I thought this would make a lovely wedding card so off it goes to the gallery there.

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The Challenge #48

I need a wedding card for next month and The Challenge provided me with perfect opportunity to 'kill two birds with one stone" so to speak.

I fell in love with Michele's background stamp from MFT and we stamped it in and on many colors while she was visiting.  I picked this white on black for my wedding card, adding the flower, banner and sentiment from W & W embossed in silver.  I thought it needed a little border so I inked the edge of some Neenah and embossed it in silver to match.  So lovely IRL.

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CASology #147

The wedding card for the CASology challenge had to be extra special since it's for my grandson who is getting married on June 6.

When I visited Michele of I Card Everyone, she gave me this piece of embossed pink paper.  It's the perfect background for my card.  I used the roses from W & W, embossing them on vellum in white.  I thought they were a little too transparent so I rubbed my PTI Fresh Snow on the back of the vellum and let it dry before die cutting.  I inked up a piece of watercolor paper with some Shabby Shutters Distress Ink for a pale green for the stems, which were just sliced off with my paper trimmer.  The banner and sentiment words are also from W & W and are embossed in silver.  You can see the difference between the vellum, one painted and one not.  I tucked in a couple of leaves but thought it still didn't look quite finished so I added the bow,.  I don't usually do bows on cards but in this case it was the finishing touch.

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Checking In and TCCC #16

Well hello there!

Did you think I fell off the face of the earth?  I have been gone, taking advantage of the fact my sister is here from Denver to help out with the folks.  I spent 5 days at my son Eric's.  My daughter Lisa joined us as we painted a couple of rooms and made a tufted headboard..  I was home a day and then  spent a weekend with my son Brian and his family.  What a relaxing time that was, although I did spend part of Sunday helping my granddaughter reupholster a chair.  She bought it at the Salvation Army, picked out the fabric and wants to resell it.  My little entrepreneur - at 16. They have a pool and it was great to sit around it and cool off in it.

Good news!  My mother came home from the nursing home yesterday and so far, so good.  Continued prayers are needed as she needs to gain weight and strength.

I did manage to get a card made and it was partly out of necessity.  How great of The Card Concept to have a wedding card challenge.  My stepson is getting married next Saturday, 11 years after losing his wife in a motorcycle accident.  If you follow me at all, you know I altered a wedding dress and it was for his fiancee, Christy.

I was actually inspired by this card from Lindsay at Note to Self. The roses,  from Winnie and Walter, are stamped and white embossed on vellum, colored on the back with HA Unicorn white and cut around to make the border.  The sentiment is also from W & W stamped in SSS Surf Blue.  I'd say this is pretty classic and elegant - or clean and simple.  You make the choice.

I'm off to my daughter's in Ohio today for Girls' Week Out.  This is a tradition started 17 years ago.  It all began when I went to help Lisa paint her newly purchased house.  My mother thought that sounded like fun so the next year she went along.  My DIL Christy (not the Christy mentioned above) joined us the following year and it's been going on ever since.  A couple of years we went other places to do our projects: twice to my parents when my mother couldn't travel and once to my son Adam's when he purchased his first house.  There are no projects left at Lisa's but since the arrival of my great-grandson, it makes it difficult for Allyson to leave home so we are all going there this year.  Also for the first time, my DIL Lisa (yes, there are two Lisa's in my family) will join us for a couple of days, bringing her two daughters.   Christy has two girls, too, so there will be 3 teenagers and one wannabe (11).  We're all looking forward to some excursions, game playing, shopping, an art project and whatever else comes to mind.  I know a group will head to King's Island one day while Lisa and I take care of Noah.  I'm getting excited just writing about this, although you're probably bored to death.  I'll leave you now so I can get lunch and ready to leave.

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Wedding

I really like entering the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge because it's one of the few that features cuts from a Cricut machine.  This week the challenge is Wedding Bliss.  I don't often need a wedding card so I don't have a lot of Cricut carts with wedding images.  I've seen some wonderful things that other bloggers have made with their intricate cuts of brides and grooms but I settled for a simple cake from Simply Charmed.

To  make it special I knew I needed some sparkly paper.  Both the aqua and white frosting are glitter paper from DCWV's Linen Closet.  The silver cake plate is a scrap from a  DCWV shimmer stack.  The background paper is from MMI Lost and Found.  I didn't want to add anything more for a sentiment so I just stamped the Mr & Mrs from the Tiny Tags 2 set from My Craft Spot right on the background.  I inked the stamp with VersaMark first, then colored it with a marker in the aqua color.  That allowed me to heat emboss with clear embossing powder.  A band of shear shimmery ribbon and it's done.  

Not the best but not the worst card I've ever done.  I'm either in a funk, or I hurried too much, or I just couldn't get into the wedding theme.  Take your pick.  lol

Bit of Inspiration

I'm finally getting the hang of it.  I started a notebook where I can write down what paper I use, and what cuts, etc. for my cards.  That way when I get ready to post the pictures, I can rely on my notes instead of my memory.  Most of you probably already do that but being new to this blogging thing, it took a while to sink in.

This card was made for the "bit of inspiration" post at Capadia Designs.  Diane challenged us to make a wedding card in black and white inspired by one she posted (that she didn't make btw).

The card is made from white Walmart cardstock in an A2 size.  The edge of the card was cut from MS Elegant Cake.  I welded two of the cuts onto a rectangle from George and hid the contours of the cut-out portion.  Then I took those two cuts and hid the outside contours, cut the inside in black and glued them in place.  Using paper from a Making Memories black and white stack that I picked up at a Tuesday Morning, I cut three strips at varying widths.  A small piece of velvet ribbon separates two of the strips.  The sentiment design is also from MS Elegant Cakes cut in black and mounted on it's white shadow.  I love that it has hearts on it.   The "For You" was printed on the computer and then placed  under a sample cut to know where it would come out on the design.  A little rhinestone bling and the card is complete.