Borrowed and Baja Wedding Card

My first wedding card of the year, this is for my best friend and her husband. Knowing it's coming from me, it had to be perfect. I think I stamped the roses 20 times till I found the perfect color combination.

I played along with the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge. The base is sahara sand and matches the new SU something borrowed designer paper perfectly. The curved mat is baja breeze, embossed with the SU elegant lines embossing folder. I outlined the roses with a Sakura glitter pen and it just makes the roses twinkle so pretty. Added a few teeny tiny pearls on the daisies and in the center of the embossed circles. The outside edge of the card has been sponged with crumb cake.

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CARD RECIPE
STAMP: PTI - The Sweet Life. SU - Mr. & Mrs.
PAPER: SU - Something Borrowed DSP, Sahara Sand, Baja Breeze. Recollections - Shimmer White. Gina K. - 120lbs White.
INK: SU - Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Lost Lagoon, Kiwi Kiss, Certainly Celery. Versafine- Tuxedo Black.
EMBELLISHMENTS: Pearls, Glitter Pen.
TOOLS: Big Shot.
SUPPLIES: SU - Elegant Line EF, Pop Dots, Clear EP.

Here comes the Bride

 A beautiful gate fold card, for the happy couple. This pattern was a free cut file I found on Pinterest, not only is it a simple and quick card to make. The embossing and added touch of sparkles make this a truly elegant card. I used the brides colors, black and turquoise. I cannot wait to see this couple get married in 15 days!

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CARD RECIPE
PAPER: SU- Whisper White, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise.
EMBELLISHMENTS: Acrylic clear brad, black mini half round pearls, diamond stickles.
RIBBON: 1/4" Teal satin ribbon.
TOOLS: Cutting Machine, cuttlebug.
SUPPLIES: SU- EF Vintage Wallpaper, Perfect Polka Dots.

Rose Wedding Invitations

The Paper Company's Metallic Crimson Red, Black Glitter & Bazzill's Glass Slipper were the colors of choice for these elegant wedding invitations that I was asked to make for my cousin who will be getting married in September 2010. I used StampinUp! Manhattan Flower embossing folder to create the embossed rose on the front. The verse was the bride and groom's personal choice.

This is a view of the inside;
The announcement and additional information were printed on linen paper to look more elegant then your typical copy paper. I learned using linen paper that it really absorbs ink and there is a slight shadow but there is no way bypassing it other then going into a commercial printer.

In total 165 invitations were made! I took pictures of some of the steps it took to complete the process.
These are the card bases, each one was individually cut from a piece of 12x12 card stock, scored and a pocket scored to be folded. Every invitation also received my custom stamped logo on the back.

Here are half of the invitation fronts. First the verse needed to be printed on the card stock then each one needed to be cut out. Then one by one all were cranked through the Cuttlebug machine using the SU! Manhattan Flower embossing folder.

Now onto my work area, one 6 foot table = 1 square foot workable area. {LOL} Shhh... I know there are others like me out there too you just won't admit it!
Thank God for Twilight & New Moon movies, I really do not know how many times I watched these movies while working on the invitations. I can not wait for Eclipse to be release now...LOL

The repetitiveness just about killed me, but all in all I am a perfectionist. They look awesome and I think they turned out great.

Three months later, and all the invitations are complete to the day of deadline.

Now would I consider doing this again... perhaps hopefully on a smaller scale, but I learned a lot on my first job at wedding invitations. Maybe the next attempt will be my own... (Rofl) ya right! Thanks for stopping by, your comments are always welcomed please post them below :) Krysta

First Wedding of the Year...

Congratulations
Adrienne & Kent

After searching for a while through some other blogs I think I finally got the hand of how everyone is making this pretty ribbon ruffle on there cards lately. {What do you think of my take at it?}
I made this card for a girlfriend that is getting married today who I worked with 10 years ago and it has probably been the same amount of time since we last saw each other.


This is the first time I have finished the inside of the card. Usually I don't like the looks of this done to cards but for this card I thought it would be appropriate to complete it as the little envelope contains my gift to the happy couple.




CARD RECIPE
STAMPS: The Greeting Farm; Cake Topper
PAPER: SU! Basic Black, Basic Gray. Deja View; Sweet Romance. Bazzill; Baby Blue
INK: Versafine; Onyxblack
EMBELLISHMENTS: Recollections; Gemstone Brads. Stickles; Turquoise
RIBBON: Black Satin
TOOLS: Cuttlebug
SUPPLIES: Spellbinders; Square & Square Scallop. SU! Bigz Scallop Envelope, Copics , Pop Dots, Clear EP