Wedding Card in Cream and Wine

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I fell in love with the poem by F. Scott Fitzgerald and decided to use it on the Wedding Card for my Daughter and her new wife, Joanna.  I can't really tell you where I got the dies or who made them, but I just love these dies.  I can tell you the design of the card itself isn't completely mine, It was the sample image that came with one of the unbranded dies that I bought.  The wedding color was Wine and Yellow.  I tried to get the overall theme of the wedding into the card.  I embossed the inside mat on the left with an embossing folder by Darice and used glitter pens by Kaiser to color the details of the embossing impressions.  The card is inside a keepsake box and the top picture on the right is the box top.

July Already?

Honestly, I don't know where the time goes....
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Once again, it's been forever since I've posted anything to the blog, time just keeps getting away from me.

There were so many things that I was going to do when spring finally arrived, and well... it arrived, it left and I still have not done certain things lol.

Anyway,  I was playing around with vellum.  It's been years since I've done anything with vellum, but I happened across my stash the other day and thought - Hey! I remember you!

I stamped a gorgeous bird and a butterfly (Inkadinkado Mindscapes) on clear vellum, then I used a number 3mm Stylus on the back of the stamped image and with little circles, filled the area in.  I then fussy cut out both the bird and butterfly.  I loved how puffed and crinkly they became from the embossing.  The vellum that I used is the open stock vellum from Michael's, it's not heavy weight not not super thin either.  If I had to guess, I would say around 30 lb.

I used my new Darice embossing folder that I first inked up with distress ink "Picked Raspberry" and ran it through my cuttlebug using white cardstock.  I used one of my border dies from spellbinders (A2 Borders number 3) to make the pink banner (I can't remember who the stamp is by) and stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Jet Black ink.  I then stamped in VersaMark a few flowers on the same vellum and heat set them and fussy cut them out as well.  The bird, the butterfly, the flowers and banner were all attached to Flamingo Pink card stock (value pack from Michael's).  I used another spellbinders die for the inside corners "Decorative Curved Square".  I then made a matching envelope using the Envelope Punch Board by We R Memory Keepers.

I enjoyed the entire process.  I really wasn't sure where I was going with it when I started so I'm certainly pleased that I like the end result.