Wedding Cards

Good afternoon friends! I hope you're having a great day! We just finished up the second "Just for Girls" crafting class...it was great fun! We had girls starting middle school for the majority of the class, they made tags for their backpacks, personalized notebooks, made a bookmark and a fun little card. They had a great time and really want more...so more fun to come for sure!

I received an order for some wedding cards. I know my supply of those kinds of cards seems to always be non existent...so it was fun order to work on! This is one of the cards that I'll be producing for that order.
First off you'll note the great silver pendant in the center of the card! Wonderful focal point, huh?! It is a Spellbinder "Shapeabilities Pendant" in Spades. It is a fun newer line of die cuts from Spellbinders...they are quite fun to play with!

I ran some brushed Silver paper through the Spellbinders Wizard die cut machine with the pendant die and was just in love with the result! I think that these make fantastic wedding cards, just simple and elegant...very fun!

The polka-dot paper and brushed Silver are made by Making Memories. I layered a piece of the polka-dot paper on some Basic Gray cardstock. The center of the pendant is a separate piece and I attached that to my card, then attached the pendant with dimensionals to the card. I used some White organdy ribbon to make a nice bow, and just attached it to the center of the pendant with a glue dot.

My "For the Newlyweds" sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. I stamped the sentiment with with Black Stazon ink.

I love how simple, but how much effort it looks like this was! I'm working on a few others...so I'll share soon. Have a great one! Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Make it great!

Impressibilites by Spellbinders

Hi friends! I am alive! We're finally kind of getting settled...kind of! We learned that the boat with our goods is on it's way through the Panama Canal! Yippy, it's getting closer!! I've been running like a crazy woman...but now I've got myself ready to get stampin' again...YEA! Since I was MIA last week, I decided to post three cards today! I've had a great time working with the new Impressabilites from Spellbinders! They are such a fun new product! If you love Nestabilities, you'll LOVE the Impressibilities too!

Here are few fun ways to use them! For this first card, I acutally cut what I wanted out of the stencil. How fun is that!? I love that you can use either the whole stencil or just cut out pieces! Fun, fun, fun! I started out embossing the baja breeze paper--which is actually the back side of patterned paper-the back of the design I used for the accordian flower(paper by amy butler). I ran it through the Wizard Die Cut Machine, and was SO excited to see how perfect this embossed image was! It was just what I wanted! Next, I made my cardbase from Kiwi Kiss cardstock, then added a chocoate chip layer and then put my embossed paper down.

I made my flower by cutting a 1x12" strip of patterned paper and scored it at every 1/2". I folded it like a fan and then used sticky strip to attach the ends and made a circle. I pushed the inner edge of the circle together, and as it came together, this lovely little flower was born! I used some sticky strip to attatch it to my card--and it helped keep the center together. I used sticky strip on my button to keep the center together too! The rubon is from the Chit Chat rubon set.

This next card was really fun! I love this patterned paper by Amy Butler--can you tell!? It's my perfect color combination!! I started my card by cutting the white square with my Nestabilites--and Wizard die cut machine. After it was cut, I embossed with my Impressabilities. I left the square in the metal die and then added my flower Impressabilites and tan embossing mat and ran it through the Wizard again. Perfection! I know you can't see the embossing that clearly in the photo-but it looks so cool!! I mounted my embossed layer on some chocolate chip cardstock and then added my rubon(also from the Chit Chat rub-on pack).

My card is a chocolate chip base with a simpler layer of beautiful paper. Before I added my patterned paper to the card base, I added my baja breeze ribbon to the top. I tied my ribbon into a bow-while attached to the spool-and then wrapped the ribbon across the front and secured it under the patterned paper. On the left side of the card, I've attached the bow with some glue dots, so it's not going anywhere.

I wanted a little "somethin', somethin' to add to my white panel. I looked at my embossed image and had a light bulb moment! I cut up one of my Impressibilities! They are so delicate and fragile, it was really easy to cut out just what I wanted! I added the metal accent with some mini glue dots...LOVE it!! **I'd say for sure to buy 2 Impressibilites when you buy them, then you'll have some to cut up and some to keep whole!**
For this last card, I used my Label One Nestabilites. I cut the image first, left it in the metal die and then ran it through the Wizard again with my Impressibilities! Isn't that fun!? As I've been typing this post, I noticed that today I am more fond of the "debossed" look, I didn't use the embossed side but the debossed side! So, I ran the ridinghood red paper through the Wizard with the label one also. My chocoalte chip layer was "debossed" with using the whole Impressibilites--which is awesome because it covers a whole card front!

I added my ribbon to my debossed chocolate chip layer, then added it to my ridinghood red card base. I added my "label" to my card with dimensionals-a perfect fit over the ribbon! I added the sentiment-yep, from the Chit Chat rubon set-and then added some punched out butterflies. The ridinghood red one was punched from some of embossed "scrap" and then the other from chocolate chip cardstock.

Thanks for sticking with me through the long post! I've missed being able to share and am glad to be back! Hope you are all doing well! Have a great one! Thanks for stopping by