Night of Navy Wedding a la Tania Style

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TGIF ~

Recently the son of a dear friend married and she needed a card - actually she needed three that week! Must be wedding season again :o)

In my craft room I have a cork board hanging on the wall above my desk and pinned to it are lots of gorgeous cards and RAKs that I've received from the beautiful friends I've made through this crazy craft and blogging thing we all do. On it is the lovely Pale Plum card (below) from Tania Gould. My friend spied this and wanted it. She wanted exactly that, no changes, just exactly the same but in Navy to match the bridal party. So I got Tania's permission to replicate her card exactly and fortunately she was flattered and gave the okay.

I've layered Very Vanilla on Night of Navy c/s, stamped En Frances b/g, Baroque Motifs and Tiny Tags + its matching punch and some VV taffeta ribbon. I forgot to photograph the inside of the card, but it does follow the same theme - of course!

As you can see I couldn't quite 'crinkle' my VV c/s as much (but it is crinkled irl honest) - just isn't my style lol. It's quite difficult to see the detail of the little rose buds because they're quite dark here, but irl they look the part and my friend was thrilled.

Thanks Tania for being so gracious as to let me CASE your card exactly, you made one proud mum very very happy!

Just Add...Embossing

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Hi and Happy Friday ~

Today I get to show you my first official Just Add Ink design team submission - it's all quite exciting but I have to say I'm a tiny bit nervous too. This week it's all about embossing... I chose to go with heat embossing, however, you can dry emboss too.

Embossing would have to be one of the most difficult to photograph, the gloss and texture just doesn't show unfortunately.
My card base is Glossy White and I've layered Very Vanilla on top, along with White Taffeta Ribbon and a half back pearl from the Pretties Kit. I used the very popular stamp set Baroque Motifs, first inking with Versamark then sprinkling with Clear Embossing Powder before heating.

The centre is popped up on dimensionals and punched with the scallop circle - to get the 'pinking' look I then added a 'handle (aka a scrap strip of c/s)' to my scallop punchie and inserted back into the punch turning slightly and punching again. Hmmm that isn't a very articulate explanation, but I hope you get the idea :o)

Make sure you take the time to go over to JAI and check out all the great inspiration ideas from the rest of the design team.

A Golden Anniversary

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Here is a very simple card I've made for a 50th wedding anniversary. I'm really into 'less is more' these days. Sometimes you can have too much 'fluff' and not really see the card - if you know what I mean.

Using Kraft cardstock I've clear embossed using Baroque Motifs - again. I've layered Very Vanilla inside and stamped the same swirl in versamark ink. The envelope also matches - of course!

Money Gift Folder

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A friend asked me recently to make a wedding card and mentioned she would be putting money inside. I decided to make her the card and a matching money gift folder. I think it looks more complete as a set! Can't show you the card as we don't want the bride to see it here first :o)

Money folder is sized to fit a larger 'note' perfectly. The belly band is the same image used on the card so the two will look good together. Baroque Motifs is the perfect set for wedding cards I think - and that's glossy white cs.

Belly band removed to show inside view.