Some Wedding Cards...

Monday I was asked by a lady at work to make a wedding card for her cousin's wedding, colors were turquoise, black and white, and whatever I came up with would be perfect.  The wedding is this weekend and I was going to be leaving town Thursday.  Hmmmm...I thought of the Orchids set I had just gotten from Flourishes.  I stamped it on Neenah Solar White paper, colored the flowers with Prismacolors and Copics.  I traced around a Spellbinders oval and cut out the "window".  Sponged all over with Distress Ink, and the white paper is now a pretty vintage looking sepia.   I stamped the sentiment on a scrap from my stash and attached it under the window with foam tape.  The embossed turquoise "panel" under the main image is actually left over strips of the same paper the sentiment is on, from my scrap drawer.  The strips were embossed and attached with foam tape as well.  I used black crinkled seam binding and added some subtle bling with the turquoise pearls I happened to find in my collection.  I took this card to my co-worker on Wednesday.  She really liked the card, showed it off at the office, and I got a waterfall of requests for wedding cards.  Six cards, two different weddings (they have all been working together for years).   I, and they, knew they would be "quicker" cards so I could take them by the office Thursday morning before leaving town.  Those cards are below, and everyone was very happy with them.   

Challenges

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Anything goes.

Everybody Art Challenge - Flowers

Lily of the Valley - Ribbon and Bows

Creative Inspirations - Glitzy and Blingy

Stamps:  Flourishes "Orchids", Crafty Secrets "Cherish"

Paper:  The Paper Studio

Ink:  Distress Ink, Memento.

Accessories:  Craft knife, Spellbinders Oval, pearls, foam tape, wrinkled seam binding.

These are the other wedding cards.  I got the ideas for these cards on Elly's Card Corner blog.  I fell in love with her cards the first time I saw them, and thought they would make beautiful wedding cards.  All the die cutting and figuring out how to lay them out was fun, and more time consuming than I thought because I kept changing my mind. :)

The first one, I have no idea who the silhouette stamp is made by. I stamped it with Versifine and embossed with black EP.  The sentiment is from Stampin Up.  All of these use various Spellbinders dies, Marianne D Creatables, Paper Punch, Martha Stewart punches. 



Spellbinders Fandy Tags, Fancy Tags two, Labels 14, Marianne D LR0157, flower made with Marvy punches

  

Lattice Pendant, Fleur de Lis Doily Accents, Sizzix leaf die, flower made with sakura punches.



Spellbinders Labels 4, Plain and Scalloped Hearts, Fancy Tags Two, Marianne D LR0157, Martha Stewart Butterfly, flowers made with sakura punches



Spellbinders Parisian and Fleur de Lis Accents, fern punch, Martha Stewart Layered Arches PATP, flower made with Nellie Snellen punches



Spellbinders Labels 20, Fleru de Lis Doilies and Accents, Marianne D LR 0157, flower made with sakura punches

Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two, Fleur de Lis Accents, Floral Accents, fern punch, MS butterfly, flowers made from Marvy punches

CR84FN18, MMSC94, FTTC108, 1-2-3-4

Whole lotta alphabet soup in that blog title! :)  When I saw that Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge is to use stitching, I grabbed my canvas.  I stamped the image on the canvas and used Copics and Prismacolors to get a pretty watercolor effect.  I cut the image borders with deckle edge scissors and inked with Distress Inks. I did some hand stitching on upper right border and added some beads, then sloppy machine stitched the rest of the way around.    I used the color scheme at CR84FN of orange, yellow and Kraft and followed this week's Midnight Madness sketch. 

Challenges
Midnight Madness - Sketch
CR84FN - Orange,  yellow and Kraft
OCC - 1-2-3-4 (1 DP, 2 layers, 3 stamped images, 4 embellishments)
Flourishes - Sewing.
Crafty Cardmakers - Fabric
Craft Us Crazy - Nature

Stamps:  Flourishes "Humming Along" and "Clematis and Butterflies".
Paper:  Kraft CS, DCWV Rustic
Ink:  Stazon, Colorbox Queues, Memento.
Accessories:  Canvas, Spellbinders die, Cuttlebug folders, beads.

Flourishes FTTC101

Dee jackson is hosting the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge this week.  She wants us to make a big card...5x7 or larger.  This one is 5x7.  I followed this week's sketch over on SCS used Flourishes "Santa, I Believe" set for the main image and the sentiment, cut/embossed with Spellbinders Labels Seventeen, inked in the die.  The CS is from MME Christmas Glitter pack.  I embossed the upper right portion of the base with Cuttlebug Allegro folder.  Edges of all pieces were inked with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink.  This also fills my personal challenge quota of a Christmas card a week.  : )

Stamps:  Flourishes "Santa, I Believe"
Paper:  MME Christmas Glitter Pack, Paper Studio CS
Ink:  Memories Sepia, Ranger Distress Ink
Accessories:  Foam tape, Dew Drops, Spellbinders

Timeless Tuesday #8

Ms. Betty Wright is hosting the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday this week and wants us to emboss it. Whatever type of embossing, it's up to you. I chose this image from the new Sweet Pea set, embossed it with gold EP and colored it with Prismas and baby oil. Decided to use the sketch from Taylored Expressions I cut out the image with oval Nestabilities, chalked around the image with Pebbles chalks. The solid colored papers are from HOTP. Used a piece from DCWV Luxury Stack to frame the image; cut out the oval, scalloped the border, and attached this piece up on foam tape so that image is set back. Added the flat back pearls. Not sure how I came up with this color combo. It looked good at midnight-ish last night. hee hee! ;)

Stamps: Flourishes Sweet Pea.
Paper: Hot Off The Press, The Paper Studio CS, DCWV Luxury Stack.
Ink: Versamark.
Accessories: Gold EP, Fiskars border punch, flat back pearls, foam tape.

Timeless Tuesday #7

I am finally getting around to the last two cards I have been working on this week. This one is for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, where hostess Cindy Haffner challenged us to use ribbon. *Sigh*...I love ribbon, have lots of it, but I am so ribbon challenged I rarely use it other than sticking it straight across a card. I really struggle with tying bows, other than on my shoes, and most of the time end up needing both hands and feet for a card bow. hee hee! Think I did okay on this one though. Yay! I had this image from Flourishes Coffee With Friends already embossed with copper EP and it was just the size for the Mojo Monday 78 sketch. Pic looks washed out, can't seem to get good lighting, but these colors look so good IRL. The bottom DP is a pale golden yellow, and the top one a bit paler, though they look blah in the pic. Wrestled with the ribbon and successfully got it tied how I like it without having to call my son in here to add a finger. : ) Stamped the sentiment directly onto the card, added the Dew Drops. Will get the other card posted shortly.

Stamps: Flourishes Coffee With Friends.
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Hot Off The Press Flowered Handmade pack.
Ink: Versamark, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Copper EP, ribbon, Dew Drops, corner rounder.

Three's a Charm...

....Challenges, that is. :) I started this card for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, where Becca Feeken is hosting this week and wants us to use Spellbinders. Wheee! So I decided to use the Poinsettia and Boxwood set and also make this my Christmas COTW #10 for my own personal challenge. I had all the pieces embossed, painted and cut out when I saw Sharon's Stamp Simply Challenge to heat things up with embossing, and well...this just fell right into that one. :) The picture is a bit washed out; I couldn't seem to get a better one. Looks much better IRL. I stamped and embossed the poinsettia twice and a bunch of leaves with silver EP, then colored with Twinkling H2O's and Stickles added in the center. Cut out a layer for the poinsettia and mounted on foam tape, then attached onto Nestabilities Labels Two, the largest which was also edged with Twinkling H2O's. Embossed Peace with silver EP, stamped some flourishes in the corners and added tiny pearls at the top.

Stamps: Flourishes Poinsettia and Boxwood, Verve Fairy Tales, Inkadinka Peace.
Paper: The Paper Studio, My Mind's Eye.
Ink: Versamark, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Nestabilities, embosisng powder, foam tape, Twinkling H2O's, pearls, Stickles.

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday

I actually had time this week to join in the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge. I also have lots of their sets and need to use them more. The colors I used for the card are muted, but this picture is a little pale due to bad lighting. I stamped the magnolia images from the Lilacs set with Colorbox Queues, then I watercolored the blossoms (*gasp* no Prismacolors! hehe). First public viewing of my watercoloring, still lots of improvement needed here. I cut out an oval with Nestabilities from center of the green paper, then ran it through CB folder twice (paper too wide for one pass). I attached the paper with the image to the back of the embossed paper, then that stack to the base CS. I then stamped and watercolored two more of big blossoms and popped those up on foam tape to come outside the frame. Sentiment from another Flourishes set, cut out and embossed with small oval Nesties. I then used Pebbles chalks because they haved such a pretty shimmer and chalked around the sentiment and top of the blossoms with peach, and around the blossoms with pale pink. Pale pink Kaiser pearls in the corner.

Stamps: Flourishes Lilacs and Many Sentiments sets.
Paper: SU! CS, My Mind's Eye DP, The Paper Studio CS.
Ink: Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Nestabilities, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Kaiser pearls, foam tape.