Paper Bouquet

Here are a few pictures of the finished paper bouquet that I made for my niece.  She is a fabulously crafty person, so I knew she'd appreciate the work that went into it.  The flowers are made from a template that you can find here, which I printed onto patterned paper and pages ripped out of an old dictionary.  Each petal is glued onto a 12" piece of florist wire, and then the stem is wrapped with floral tape.  The cutting takes a bit of time, but the assembly is fairly painless:

Another Wedding Card

Here's number two (this is the one she ended up using, but she loved them both so my friend kept the previous wedding card that I posted, too!).  I was aiming for classic bridal here, trying to keep it as white as possible.  The embossing powder is a sparkly/irridescent one (called 'bridal'!) that I've had for years, but the effect in real life is quite stunning.  Both the main panel and the sentiment are popped up on pop dots.

Stamp sets are Gracious Greetings and Simple Memories; Ink is Grey Wool; White organdy ribbon - all CTMH.

A Wedding Card

I had a friend request a wedding card this week... so here is the first of two that I've come up with.  Since this one has pretty specific colours - which may not be for everyone... the other one looks distinctly more bridal.  Anyhow, here's my first effort:

Patterned papers are Everafter, Cosmo Cricket; Cardstock is Colonial White, CTMH; Ivory Organdy ribbon, CTMH; Stamp set is Gracious Greetings, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento and Creme Brulee, CTMH; Spellbinders and Cuttlebug dies. Opaque pearls, CTMH.

Heart2Heart Wedding Challenge

It's wedding week on the Heart2Heart Challenges Blog... and the design team has some wonderful inspiration for you!  We have a new guest designer playing with us this month, the talented Jena DeVries, so be sure to see what she has to show us this week.  If you play in the month of June, you have a chance to win one of two prize packs given out by Michelle Owen and Romaine Rancine, and you may be selected as one of our monthly Top Ten.  Just link up your project to the H2H blog, and be sure to use some CTMH product in your project.  For my wedding card, I went mostly white (not my usual thing!), kept the colours soft, and added a bit of bling:

I masked off the outside 3/8" around the card, and then stamped the Wings wotg background stamp in Versamark and then heat embossed it with some sparkly white embossing powder that I've had kicking around forever (it's actually called "Bridal!") - this pic doesn't show the irridescent sparkle of the embossing, so I'll make sure to add another one that does.  I used 2 different pinks for the flowers...and now that I think of it, this card reminds me a lot of my own wedding dress.  I wore a very pale pink gown, and made dozens of silk flowers in different shades of pink to sew onto it, along with pale green leaves!

Stamp sets are Wings, You're Invited & Our Wedding Day; Inks are Versamark, Grey Wool & Sweet Leaf; Cardstock is White Daisy, Baby Pink, Blush & Sweet Leaf; Opaque Pearls; - all CTMH. Nestabilities die. Bridal Embossing powder from Personal Stamp Exchange.