Wedding in White

Our niece just got married and this is the card I made for them. The embossing was done with an Altenew folder. I simply brayered my new favorite color ink (Moonlit Fog from Gina K) lightly over it. The sentiment is also from Gina K. I added three silver nail heads around the sentiment.

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Together Forever

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her, so I suggested instead that she design it herself. Here is the pretty card she came up with. We started with another of the stamped-frame panels from my parts. (Three left!) Most of this card is die-cut. The "Together" stamp and the "forever" dies are from a Gina K set. The heart and the "Together" are popped up on foam squares. The blue is metallic cardstock and the gray heart is actually glitter cardstock. The "forever" is cut from silver metallic cardstock.

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Happy Birthday, Owen! - and Bonus

Today is one of our grandsons' 15th birthday. He plays string bass in the school orchestra, is on the sailing team, loves Legos, and plays bass guitar in a band called "The Relish Agents" whose "mascot" is a pickle. So, we had AI generate this image for us. What a great idea for a card by Jim! It is 5 x 7 inches.

Yesterday was Day One of Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas. You could purchase a box with 12 "gifts" in it. She will be doing a live every day until December 23, opening up one of the bags in the box and then showing a card/cards she makes with them. Yesterday was this Ornate Frame. I got up really early this morning and this is what I did with the frame.

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Mr and Mrs

My friend, Cheryl (Paper Panacea) brought over this embossing folder with coordinating die when she came over last week. The colored flowers and leaves are the die-cut. I used some foam dots under the leaves. The sentiment was die-cut and in my parts. It's cut from foil.

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An Everlasting Love

This card uses a die that I got from my friend in March. I think I only have one unused item/set that I received from her. I decided to make three of these cards, like I had told myself to do last year, but have forgotten about! Then I can keep one and give the other two away - to my church and to the thrift store that Cheryl donates to (and volunteers at!)

The die is from Impression Obsession, the sentiment is from The Paper Company and the embossing was done with a folder from Darice. As I think you can tell from the photos, the background cardstocks are metallic and the sentiment is white heat embossed. I also scored the lines with my Scor-Pal.

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Embossed Wedding?

Both the 3D-embossed background and the matted sentiment panel were in my card parts. I simply matted the background and put them together. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares. I think this would work for a wedding card.

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Various Flat Cards

A few years ago, I made these tiny cards. I thought they might work for gift cards, but I just never used them. I finally just put them on flat pieces of cardstock and called them done! I did finish them each up somewhat differently. 

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Black and White Wedding

Two more card parts on this card - the image and the background. The image was already stamped and matted and had Wink of Stella added to the flowers and the gown. I mounted it on foam squares. The sentiment is from the same set. I remember embossing the background piece at our Group Gathering last year, but I don't remember who makes it.

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Wedding Card in Black and White

A friend of ours recently got married and this is the card we sent them. My friend, Harriet, made a card very similar to it when she was here in June, and also suggested at the time that the sentiment die could easily be changed from "Mr & Mrs" to "Mr & Mr." Great suggestion, Harriet!

The lattice frame, leafy sprig and flowers were all cut with dies. I added a black oval under the lattice and black enamel dots to the flower centers. I mounted that panel on foam squares. I embossed the background with an old Cuttlebug folder and matted that with black. I die-cut the sentiment four times and layered them for dimension, and also added Wink of Stella for shimmer. The sentiment kind of disappeared on the black and white lattice, so I cut my own "shadow" to put under it. Congratulations, John and Brian!

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Letting Paper Speak for Itself

 Kris shared with us some gorgeous paper sheets. I just had to allow them to be seen. They are a bit shimmery, too. For this first card, I just added the die-cut "Mr & Mrs" that I sparkled up with a Wink of Stella glitter marker.

And for this second card, I simply added a sentiment, embossed in white, to the bottom stripe. The sentiment is from a Technique Tuesday set that I purchased at the store's garage sale.

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Black and Cream Wedding

I used a die to cut the black piece on this card, then cut a piece of ivory to fit. I embossed the ivory part with a Darice embossing folder and added a coule scored lines on each side of it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is matted with black and popped up on foam squares. I think it would make a fine wedding card, or perhaps even an anniversary card.

Edited to add: I broke down and ordered a few more dies from China. :( I thought I wouldn't do it again, but I couldn't resist. This is one of those new dies. I don't honestly know if it's a rip-off of some other company's die, but I'm assuming that it is.

Edited to add - again: For Doublemindt: This die is from China. I ordered it from AliExpress.com.

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Special Blessings - #1 and #2

One more Stampin' Up! set done. This set is called "Special Blessings." It consists of the cross, the dove, and six sentiments. I have used three of the sentiment stamps on these two cards. The other sentiments are: "on your First Communion," "on your Special day," and "on your wedding day." For both cards, I stamped the image, cut it out and mounted on foam squares. Then I matted with matching cardstock and stamped the second part of the sentiment on the inside of the card.

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Love - Times Three

I had these three "love" die cuts in with my card parts. I'm pretty sure they were cut with a Stampin' Up! die. I decided to just throw them all on the same card. I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder and popped the panel up on foam squares. I thought it would work as a valentine, anniversary, or even a wedding card.

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Wedding Bells

This is another piece that has been in my cards parts for several years. I had already stamped the image and the sentiment and colored with Copic markers. The image was stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with silver embossing powder. Both the image and the sentiment are from Repeat Impressions.

I scored a line along each edge of the image panel and then matted it with silver paper. I mounted it on foam squares. The background was embossed with a Darice embossing folder and matted with silver, also.

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Wedding Wishes

I die-cut this beautiful design using a Memory Box die at our Group Gathering. It was cut from ivory cardstock. I scored two lines on each side of the design. I added glittered cardstock beneath the die-cut. The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up! wedding set and is stamped with a brownish ink. I glued the panel directly to the front of the ivory card base.

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Noteworthy #3

Card #3 with the Stampin' Up! set called "Noteworthy." Maybe for a wedding or anniversary?? The word "love" and the design on the image panel are from the set. I stamped them with Versamark and embossed with detail gold embossing powder. I matted with black and shimmery gold, added some small black gems and mounted on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder. After embossing, I lightly brayered the raised parts with Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder. I matted that panel with black.

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Always and Forever

We had an out-of-town wedding on Saturday, so I needed to make a card. I didn't have much time, of course. It did feel good to be in my stamping room, though.

I sat and looked around for a bit, trying to come up with something. I even searched my blog for a card to case. But, in the end, I came up with this card. An on-line friend (thanks, Gloria!) recently sent me a few die cuts, and this pretty flowery sprig was one of them. I thought it would work well for a wedding card. I trimmed my white cardstock down slightly so I could have a black matting and still have white matting from the card front. I embossed the left side with my Swiss Dots embossing folder and scored two lines beside the right edge of the embossing. Then I glued the die cut on top of the embossed dots. The sentiment is from an Inkadinkado wedding set. I added several light pink gems to the sentiment and to the die cut to make it a bit more "fancy."

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Flutter By Wednesday - Shaped Card

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is to make a shaped card - no squares or rectangles allowed! :) Be sure to include your butterfly or fairy, then link it up to the FBW blog.

I decided to go with a heart card. We have a wedding to go to on Saturday, so this is for the new bride and groom. I used QuickKutz dies for the hearts and doves. The doves are cut from shimmery silver. The butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch from the same silver. I used dark gray gems for the eyes of the doves and the butterflies. The stamps are from an Inkadinkado set and are embossed with silver. The stripes in the black paper are silver, also. Oh, and I put a little Versamark along the edges of the white heart and added silver embossing powder to that, too.

Edited to add: I'm linking this card up to the Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions. The challenge this week: No Square Cards! :)

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Black and White Wedding

How about a wedding card for today?

I used my Stampin' Up! set called Easy Events again. I stamped the image on a strip of white. I added a little bit of color to the leaves and the heart. I added some Star Dust Stickles to the wings and heart and tiny gems to the eyes. I used Scor-Tape to make glittery stripes on the sides with black glitter. I matted with shimmery black and used Dimensionals for added dimension.

Edited to add: It was suggested to me that I enter this in the Runway Inspired blog challenge, so I did! The challenge this week is an Inspiration challenge, based on this photo.

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Black and White Wedding

Quick post for today using another of the cards I made last week.

The image is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The patterned paper is from The Paper Studio. The flower is from Michael's wedding section. I added a black gem for the flower center. The main image panel is mounted on foam squares.

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