Wedding/Shower cards

Hello everyone.  Last month I was busy working on Wedding and Wedding shower cards.  I have done this layout many times, and love it.  It's my 'go to' wedding shower card. 

I actually did 3 cards at the same time, just changed papers, or colours etc on each, but generally the same.

 

Not a lot of explaining on these, the wedding dress is a embossing folder from Coutures.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Stitched frame is from MFT.

Thanks for stopping by today, I love when you do.  Have yourself a fabulous day!

Pauline

Bridal shower

Hello everyone.  TGIF - and even better I'm off until Tuesday! Yay!!!!

It's a very warm one here today,  hot and humid, it's already 93F and suppose to go over 100 this afternoon.

I had a request from my boss for a wedding shower card, and this is what I came up with.
I loved the outcome I ended up making another one for a spare.

Not a lot of stamping, actually no stamping at all.  The dress was embossed using an embossing folder from Darice. I then cut a white frame from MFT stitched rectangle frame (largest die).  The pink  was cut down to size to fit in behind.

The silver embossed paper behind is from Kaisercraft - The lake house. I then layered it onto a piece of MFT pink lemonade, then onto my card base which is dark grey bazzill.

Then the fun begins.  Me and all my fussiness with flowers, pearls, glittered tiny rhinestones & ribbon. After it was all together, I used Nuvo Aqua shimmer clear pen to add sparkle to the flowers, and boy do they shimmer.  It is so pretty in real.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend.  Stay cool!

Pauline

Every happiness

Hi - I'm back today to share the last of the 3 wedding shower cards I created.  Not much explaining on this one, so I will list all the particulars below.

Paper - white cougar c/s, Designstax 6x6 by Papermania (Lucy Cromwell),  SU Mauve Mist

Dies - Memory box - Trulani wreath, Catalina wreath, Spellbinder - A2 curved borders one

Embellishments - pre-made tags from Papermania, organza ribbon, pearls, sequins, flower

Embossing folder - not sure of the name

I'm off tomorrow (Monday) it's my Happy Monday - we work one extra hour a day and get every other friday or monday off, so I picked to have the Monday's - woohoo - love it, so I hope to get creative over the next 2 days, so I will have some more cards to share.

I do have a Wedding card in the works, so stay tuned.

Enjoy your day!

Pauline

Happiness Always...

Hi everyone.  I'm back today with a very quick post.  Thought I would get this in before heading off to work.  I think most of us survived this bitterly cold weather we have had over the last few days with night time dropping down to as low as -45-40C.  Good news is, it is suppose to reach 6C on Saturday with rain - from one extreme to another, but I'll take it.

Okay, so for my card, still working on cards for my order, this is another wedding shower card.
Very simple, embossing folder for the top layer, used spellbinder timeless rectangle for my sentiment piece.  Sentiment is from MFT - happy thoughts - stamped this in Versafine Smokey Gray and the added some flowers, ribbon and pearls.

Okay, I'm off, hope you have a wonderful day. Catch you again real soon with another wedding shower card.

Pauline

New Beginnings

Good morning everyone.  As I am writing this post we are upon another winter storm.  As my daughter left for work, I stuck my head out and it is a very fine sleet style snow coming down.  We are suppose to get hit with another 6-8 inches on top of the last 8 inches we got on thursday/friday.
I'm not a winter gal, much prefer the spring and fall temps. Heck we live in the 'banana belt', we shouldn't be getting this much snow - LOL!

So for the real reason you dropped by today - I have been working on some of my cards for my order I have for a co-worker.  The card today is one of three cards she requested for a bridal shower.
I was quite pleased on how it turned out.

I call this one New Beginnings.......

To start out - for my card base I folded a piece of card stock in half and made sure when I placed it on my die (I used the largest die from this set) the folded edge was just inside the cut line of the die.  This was when you run it through your die cutting machine it will cut the other 3 edges but leave the fold edge untouched.  This way you will still be able to open the card as you normally would and it is still all in tact.  I then proceeded to cut all the other layers.  It's pretty self explanatory, so I will just list the ingredients below.

Dies: Spellbinder Radiant Rectangles - I used this set for all the layers you see above. 

Paper :   White Cougar, Basic Grey (unsure of the name just a scrap piece I had) PTI - light grey

Sentiment:  Justrite -Vintage Filigree Fancies

Ink: SU True tyme

Additional supplies - PTI silk ribbon, flowers, pearls, pop dots 

I'll be back in a few days  to share the next wedding shower card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'm off to fill the bird feeders before the storm hits - have to keep by birds happy, and then off for my daily morning walk. Yesterday we had so many birds, there must of been at least 75 at one time - from house sparrows, tree sparrows, cardinals (I call them Mr & Mrs C) blue jays, dark eyed juncos, white crowned sparrows,  gold finches, house finches  and our fox sparrow shows up occasionally.  Keep warm my friends (or cool depending where you live!).

Pauline

wishing you every happiness...

Can you believe that we are into August already?  Where did July go? As much as I would like to see Sept get here (we are taking a trip out to Maine) I still want to enjoy the summer. Weather hasn't been all that summerish if you kwim!  Lots of rainy days and cooler temps, now I don't want hot hot weather, but mid 70's, sunshine and a slight breeze- is that too much to ask?  Well that is the weather for this weekend- can't wait.

I have another card to share with you today.  I had  a request for a wedding shower - I never know what to do for those, anyway this is what I came up with. I really enjoy making a card that doesn't require colouring.  Mind you I love to use my pencils and copics, but this is a nice change from it.

This was pretty simple actually, paper, punches, pearls, flowers, ribbon and die cut!

I used an EK Success border punch as well as a Spellbinder
fancy tags three.  I think the paper is by Prima. I sponged some antique linen to give it a bit of vintage feel to the punched border as well as the tag tie.  Sentiment is from Verve - set is called Small Phrases - great set to have I have used this many times.

Finished off with some white ribbon, pearls, flower and leaves from Wild Orchid Crafts (UK - love this online store, if you need flowers this is the place to purchase them. Shipping is cheap and they ship fast.  I had my pkg in a week).   

Okay, off to start my day, need to get my potato salad made.  Mark and his girlfriend are coming home today, can't wait to see them, it's been a month.  Day shaping up great weather wise,  lots of birds in the backyard already - hummingbirds, cardinals, blue jays, sparrows, finches, we will have lots of laughs (as always), great food as well (bbq chicken, potato salad, corn on the cob, wine!) and just a lot of family loving!

Enjoy your weekend, it's a long one for us Canadian's, and I also took Tuesday off, so a 4 day weekend, love it!

Till next time,
Pauline