Wedding card

Hello lovely friends.  I hope you've had a great start to your week.  Today I'm sharing a wedding card I made for my nephew, who got married two weeks ago.  I'm not sure if I can post wedding photos yet but I did have one taken with my nephew so will share that instead.

It was a beautiful day and the venue was stunning.  I'm a bit of an introvert and was really dreading getting dressed up and having to interact with lots of people I didn't know but it was a lovely day and I did enjoy myself.  

Enough waffling and onto the card.  I used my computer to print the wording but everything else was die cut/embossed and the card was 7" x 7" in size.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by making my card base; I cut one piece of white card 8" x 7" and one piece 7" x 7".  I scored the 8" side at the 1" mark and folded it to make a tab so that I could adhere both pieces together to make my card base.  I cut another white panel 5 3/4" square and embossed it with the beautiful tiled hearts folder; it was ever so slightly smaller than the panel but I don't think it's that noticeable.  I cut a mat layer from matte silver card and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I cut the largest heart from the die set from white card, but because I only wanted a small mat layer I hand cut the silver matte card layers (they are a little wonky in places but again they look ok) and adhered them with liquid glue.  I printed all the sentiments using my computer and printer and die cut the longer ones with sentiment strip dies and the names with a smaller heart die (again hand cutting the silver matte card layer).  I adhered the small hearts and sentiments with liquid glue.  I die cut the 'happily ever after' 4 times from the matte silver card and stacked them up with liquid glue.  I now started assembling my card.  I used foam squares for all the elements and overlapped the hearts ever so slightly.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  For a finishing touch I added some small hearts cut from the silver matte card.  For the inside of the card I cut a white panel 6" square and added a silver matte card layer with liquid glue.  I had some left over embossed card so cut a 2" square and then cut it diagonally to create two triangles and added them in the top left and bottom right corners.  I also hand cut one of the hearts from the embossed piece and added that in the bottom left corner.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink in the centre.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with this card and think it turned out really beautiful and elegant (even if I say so myself lol!).

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - must use an EF optional theme in the sky

Cardz  4 Galz challenge - wedding or anniversary

Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge - Line G - square card base, free, sentiment as focus

Inkspirational challenge - three of the same (I have 3 hearts)

Make My Monday challenge - embossing wet or dry

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - emboss it

Word Power challenge - make the sentiment the focus

I also made a card for my sister to give to my nephew and his new wife (her son & daughter-in-law) so I'll try and share that one with you in the next few days.  

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me such lovely comments; I appreciate each and every one of them. 

Love and hugs, 

card supplies:

Spellbinders - tiled hearts 2D embossing folder (EOM Dec 23) - ? retired

Spellbinders - happily ever after sentiment die

Spellbinders - essential hearts die set

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts) 

Card Making Magic - verses stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - simply the best 12" x 12" silky smooth 250gsm white card - no longer available

silver matte card from stash (but it may be Tonic but not sure)

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Computer & printer for wording on front of card

My sister got married!

Hello crafty friends; I hope you're having a great weekend so far.  It's actually been quite a nice day today here in South Wales; chilly but at least it's been dry.  We've had so much rain here over the past few weeks, it makes such a difference to see some blue sky.  

Just before Christmas my sister (and now brother in law) decided to get married, completely unexpectedly, after being together for 36 years.  It was all arranged within a week as she didn't want any fuss and apart from my mother and his parents and friends of theirs who were also getting married, no-one else attended.  It was a quick registry office ceremony and then out for lunch.  She looked beautiful and my BIL scrubbed up quite well too.

I had to mark the occasion with a card and this is what I made:

I decorated the inside:

I began by embossing a white panel with a heart embossing folder and then mat that onto some gold mirri card.  I die cut the letters and ampersand from the same gold mirri card and the flowers and leaves from coloured card stock.  The sentiment was stamped with versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder and cut out with a stitched die.  I arranged all the die cuts and added them with liquid glue and then the sentiment was added on top with foam squares.  I didn't add any embellishments as there was lots of shiny gold on my card already.  For the inside I die cut an extra flower and some leaves and adhered them to the lower left corner.  A simple sentiment stamped in black ink and again the panel was matted onto the gold mirri card.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - mood board or ATG

Alphabet challenge - T is for texture (embossing folder)

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - Must use an embossing folder - option winter

Craft Rocket challenge - use embossing (embossing folder and heat embossing)

Crafters Cafe challenge - feminine

Creative Knockouts challenge - celebrations (10 challenges max)

Daisy Chain challenge - no design paper

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - a new start (newly married)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - something new (newly married)

Time Out challenge - new (newly married)

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Spellbinders - sentimental ampersand (SDOM-Jan23)

Spellbinders - simply perfect alphabets 

Gina K Designs - happy hearts embossing folder

Gina K Designs - on the inside stamp set (for the greeting on the front)

Gina K Designs - succulent spray stamp set (for inside greeting)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Gold mirri card and coloured card from my stash

Versamark ink pad

Versafine onyx black ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - gold detail embossing powder