Quicky wedding card...

A very quick wedding card I made this weekend. I embossed some white cardstock and cut into a wedding cake shape. The chocolate brown ribbon is just a little scrap I had lying around. And a few mini-pearls were added to the cake to give it a touch of elegance.

elements:
cardstock: Stampin' Up (Kraft, whisper white, chocolate chip)
embossing folder: Cuddlebug
pearls: Hero Arts
ribbon: misc scrap

Another anniversary...

A very simple yet elegant anniversary card. I embellished the embossed flowers and stems with some little pearl accents to fancy it up a bit.

elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink & Bazzill
ink: Ranger
pearls: Hero Arts
ribbon: Michael's

Cheers!

A very simple, one layer card. This card is perfect for an anniversary! I scored some lines for a little bit of subtle texture. And the champagne glasses are filled in with Spica markers for sparkle.

elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink
pearls: Hero Arts
ink: Ranger
markers: Copic Spica

White on white on white...

A few months ago Karie posted a gorgeous card that was 99% white. I thought it was beautiful! I had never thought about using white on white on white...just seemed wrong to me until I saw her card. Definitely have to make more of these!

elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink
flower: Heidi Swapp
bling: Heidi Swapp
stamp: CTMH ink: Ranger

Butterfly Wedding Cake

A month or so ago I saw this Martha Stewart Wedding magazine cover and was in love with the cake. It was simple and beautiful and the colors spray of butterflies...gorgeous!


I was commissioned to make a wedding card recently and wanted to do something different, something I hadn't tried before. I decided to use Martha Stewart's cake as my inspiration.





I cut the cake free form, added a little texture with my Cuttlebug embossing plates and added ribbon for a little extra detail. I cut some butterflies with scraps of patterned paper that coordinated nicely together and added a little bling on their bodies. I'm really proud of myself with this card! I love it's dimension and detail...

elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink - kraft and white, Bazzill
patterned paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug, Basic Grey
ribbon: Michael's
bling: Hero Arts

For the bride-to-be...

a fabulous Bella card! She would actually work for a bridal shower and/or engagement card.

elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink - white
patterned paper: 3 Bugs in a Rug - Color Me Pink Leaves
markers: Copics
ribbon: Michael's
bling: Hero Arts
ink: Tsukineko Brilliance Graphite Black

It's that time of the year...

time for bridal showers and weddings! I was commissioned to make a bridal shower and wedding card last week for upcoming events. I ended up making three to give some options. Here is the first of three:



elements:
cardstock: Papertrey Ink - kraft
patterned paper: Basic Grey
ribbon: Michael's
pearls: Hero Arts
ink: Color Box Fluid Chalk Olive Pastel

Custom Card Order

I received a custom card order through etsy yesterday! The customer requested a color scheme and custom hair colors on the image. I was very excited as this is my first custom order since I started etsy. All previous custom orders were from friends and family, so I was honored when somebody that doesn't know me and hasn't seen my work in person trusted me enough to make something for her.

66 years and still going strong...

Thursday, February 5th my grandparents will celebrate 66 wonderful years together. Hopefully Ohio's weather will cooperate and they'll be able to get out and do a little celebrating. Grandpa is in the process of scheduling surgery but he told the doctor it couldn't be on February 5th because that was his anniversary. I think that's awfully sweet of him to demand the surgery wait so he can grandma can celebrate.

Happy 66th Anniversary Grandma & Grandpa! We love you!

Wedding wishes to our friends...

Our friend, Ami, got married this afternoon and we couldn't be up in Ohio for the wedding. I was a little slack about getting the card made and out into the mail, but it will be there by the time they get home from a weekend of celebrating. I totally hate being late, but this time I am late...I'm blaming it on being on doctor ordered rest for 10 days. (It really was lack of mojo.) Now I'm off my 10 days of rest and can get back to normal and I'm hoping that I get a little bit of inspiration back, too. I just bought $13 worth of ribbon at a fun little paper store I found yesterday evening while we were waiting on a table for dinner. Maybe that ribbon will inspire me to make something really cool!

I'm really loving this wedding card. I just love the color combination. I got my color and design inspiration from this card. I plan to see what else I can do with these colors...maybe decorate my scraproom with it...when we buy a house that has a scraproom :D

Have a great weekend!

Counting Challenge

I made this quick card for a counting challenge on my friend Karie's site. It had to contain 1 stamped image, 2 flowers, 3 brads and 4 bling. Here is my interpretation...if you can't tell what the bling is, look in the patterned paper, you'll see four green stones.

Finally...

I made a card! It's been a while, but we've been busy trying to rid our house and bodies of some awful virus. The husband and GQ both had to see a doctor to help with theirs but I managed to not make a trip in. GQ had a reaction to his Rx to get rid of the virus, it was pure craziness in our house for three days until we took him off of them. He's better, both virus wise and behavior wise. THANK GOODNESS!

Tuesday is our 4th wedding anniversary! We're going to celebrate with a mini-getaway while my wonderful mother-in-law comes to take care of GQ for us. Grandma wants to take GQ shopping while she's here visiting and he's making quite a list for her, blue swim goggles are at the top of it! I have a feeling somebody is going to get spoiled in the coming week. LOL!

Anyway, here is a card that I made for the husband. I know he doesn't read my blog, since it's not poker related, so I don't have to worry about him getting a sneak-peek at it ;) I was inspired by this card...I thought it was sweet and simple and gorgeous. I changed my version up a bit, but it pretty much follows her theme. Hope you like...

Trying something new...

chipboard. I have it. I don't use it. I just collect it, I guess. I completely went out of my chipboard comfort zone and tried it on a card. I've only used it on a card once or twice before; I mostly use it for scrapbooking. And to make it more exciting I heat embossed it rather than putting designer paper over it and cutting it out. (this was a great time saver because it takes me a long time to do all those little cuts!) And to shake things up even more on this card I heat embossed the word CELEBRATE on the ribbon. Crazy, I know! LOL!

Anyway, hope you enjoy...

I had a hella Bella good time making these cards!

Since I'm rather new to stamping, only a year into it, I'm still figuring out what brands I like, whether I like rubber stamps or the clear acrylic and just what my style is. I had a few Bella stamps that I hadn't used and wanted to work with them a little and see what I could do. I had so much fun with them! I'm thinking that they are my favorite stamps yet! (although, I do know that I have yet to try tons of different stamp companies; I'll still be buying stamps and inks and paper and embellies to try out :) I really like how girly the stamps are. Since we have a little guy my scrapping is mostly dedicated to boy-themed stuff so making girly cards is fun for me. I have some Christmas money set aside and I have a feeling I'll be getting some new Bella stamps in the near future. Bella has so many cool stamps it's going to be difficult to limit myself. And they have an adorable baby stamp that I have to try out too... if the piggy bank was bottomless I'd have more stamps than I ever knew what to do with (paper too!)

Marriage Reception Invitation

I was very honored to be asked to make some invitations for a marriage reception. It took place in early November so they used fall colors for decorations and I tried to find some fall colors to use on the invites as well. I really liked the final product.

The base of the invite is a chocolate brown cardstock. And the deep red card stock is stamped with a forever and ever and ever stamp using VersaMark to create the watermark affect. I just stamped it over and over and over... Then I just stamped the cake on sparkle paper and used watercolors and Stickles to color. After that I mounted in the marigold color and put on w/pop-dots and tied some organdy ribbon.

The reception was supposed to be casual but not too casual. I hoped that w/the destressing of the paper it made the invite a bit casual, but we chose a font for the invite wording that was fun but a little fancy at the same time.

Hope you like...

One more possible invite

I was looking around for ideas and came across this one http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/616361 and just loved it. I didn't CASE the exact invite, but used it for inspiration. My card has a light pink full inside that the invite information would be printed on.

Some invitation examples I made today

Here are a few invitation possibilities I made this afternoon. Nothing fancy, the bella one is fun, the cake is too. And the monogram is just a clean and simple design. I still need to work on a couple more, I think I could figure out something a little fancier.

Fella and his bella...

I love this stamp! I bought it to make a wedding card for a family member. But I just love this stamp and had to use it for myself!

I found this card sketch on www.splitcoaststampers.com. It's sketch challenge 134. They have a weekly sketch challenge but, I've never participated...and still haven't. I really liked this card sketch and thought I'd give it a try.

The card is called a tent topper, I think. The base of the card if 4.25 x 4.25 and then the topper added give a total vertical dimension of 5.5 inches.

I don't know if you can make it out w/the scan, but bella has some mighty big bling on that wedding finger!

Wedding card with a little bling!

Here is a wedding card that I made for a friends wedding next week. I still need to add a little bit of sparkle to it, but wanted to scan it before I forgot. It's all using Bazzill Bling, I've never used it before, but it's pretty cool. The inside of the card is heat embossed in silver w/the saying forever & ever & ever & ever.

Last post for today...

A wedding card. I'm still learning to use all the tools that I bought to make cards. I have chalks but I'm still figuring out some cool ways to use them. I used them on the cake for this card and then topped it off with some Stickles for a little sparkle! The inside of the card is light blue w/Happy Wedding Day in brown ink.