Wallpaper wedding card

I try to get to the local Sherwin Williams every couple of months to see if I can get any of the expired wallpaper sample books (I'm often too late, sigh). Last summer I got the most gorgeous sample book I have yet to see ... it made me want to wallpaper my house! It's been excellent for elegant journals, and for formal cards like this.

Spanish Wedding cards

The text in English is "May the Lord bless you on your wedding day." The top card background is white embossing on vellum. The text on both is gold embossed.

Trivia for the day: in Cuba, weddings are done in an office, by a communist official. Christians often will have two celebrations, the state one, and a church one.

Always

This is a remake from a card I made last year. The faux pearls really look nice; the photo makes them look like cheap plastic (well, I suppose they are cheap plastic, lol, but they don't actually look so obviously fake!)

Weddings!

My wonderful friend Jacki sent me (among other things!) some prima flowers to play with. It's so funny ... when I first was introduced to eyelets, I thought they were gaudy and ugly. Now I can't imagine not having any! I though the same about flowers. Fake flowers on cards? You've got to be kidding! But I absolutely love using them, whether for just the right touch on a wedding card, or for a funky look on my "Becky cards," I really have fun with them!

Top card: glued ribbon accross the card, tied a second piece of ribbon to it. Text is embossed in fine detail gold, paper is white linen for that added touch of elegance.

Middle card: embossed with smARTworks "Faith's transcendence powder" (with dye ink, not pigment) on pink vellum. I love this embossing powder: it is so fine that I can add it onto printed items from my scanner, something that just does not work for me with standard clear embossing. For the ribbon, I tied it around the white oval which covers the edge of the pink vellum, and heated it until it curled up. This is a precarious process: it's easy to accidentally melt holes in the ribbon!

Bottom card: I wanted to make this a non-frilly/feminine card, because I know there are women who simply don't care for that look. I went a little too plain, though. I like the gloss of the buttons (I love using my half-inch hole punch to cover buttons with matching/coordinating papers), but overall, it's just a bit too dreary for a wedding! Still, I thought the concept was worth sharing!

And since I'm thinking wedding thoughts, I thought I'd post a link to my sister's family's video/photo scanning business, Vista Video. Among other things, they create heirloom montage weddings. The sample video on their website is my own mom and dad's wedding! Dad passed away a few years ago, so I've loved watching this!

Wedding

I have had this stamp (Biblical Impressions) for ages, but just never got around to using it. Stamps that need coloring tend to get less attention, though my friend Jacki sent me some "real" (as opposed to el cheapos from who-knows-where) pencils and a blender pencil (I didn't even know what one looked like!), and finally, finally, this week I am totally "clear" to learn how to use them! I'm not very confident, after all, I was the last kid in kindergarten (or was it seventh grade, lol?)to figure out how to color inside the lines - and I'm not kidding about that, I can remember how frustrated I was whenever we had to color. I remember having one friend who would actually color in one shade around the inside of the lines, and another to fill in the space. I didn't have a clue what that was all about ...

Anyway, I embossed the images (Biblical Impressions and Autumn leaves Swirls) in gold on micro-sparkle white cardstock, and colored in with Twinkling H20s. Not knowing much about coloring, I just penciled in a little grey along the gold outline of the dove. (If someone would like to tell me what I should have done, that would be helpful!) I layered the image and text on pink, and mounted the panel onto Arcabelano Intense yellow dark. Again, apologies for my poor camera skills. I was hoping to play around with the camera today, but our van died on Thursday, had to be towed, and the camera had been left in it. We only had the one vehicle, so we're stranded and haven't managed to retrieve everything from the van -- the engine is gone, so we won't be getting it back for awhile...