Ingenious Inkling

Lustrous Lace Wedding Cake

For this week's SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge we're celebrating the elegance of weddings at BHLDN.  I chose this Lustrous Lace Dress to inspire my design.

I used textured floral paper to create my wedding cake, and then adorned it with ivory pom pom trim and floral buttons

I intended to stamp & emboss my sentiment on the dark grey background, but decided the risk of failing after building my cake was too high, so I used some chipboard sticker sentiments instead.

I hope you find inspiration.

Goin' to the Chapel

This week I need to make a wedding card for a friend's daughter.  Their wedding colors are red and ivory with roses and calla lillies, so I wanted to incorporate those colors into my design.

This week's Unscripted Sketch was perfect for my new Love & Laughter stamps from Stampin' Up! ... you know how I love art that incorporates text.

I used a few scraps of hand-made floral paper, together with some punched butterflies & champagne pearls to decorate my wedding cake.  I used Hero Arts watercolor paper for the background for a bit more elegant texture & foam tape to adhere the image and sentiment.

This is my first week as a designer for Unscripted Sketches ... please help me celebrate by joining the fun.

Also, I am honored to be featured at the Gingersnap Creations Blog today.

Wedding Love

Tonight I needed to make a wedding card, so I combined this week's Play Date Cafe colors (and wedding theme) with the Laura Bassan's fabulous card from CASE Study Challenge.

 

 

I stamped a vintage couple image from A Muse in charcoal (several have asked me if it's availble anywhere, and I am unable to find it) and added an EAD Designs rub-on sentiment.

The lacy paper is from the Sassafrass Mix and Mend Wee Bundle.

Skating Through Life

Frosty is the theme for this month's Rebel Challenge ... to use Vellum in your design.  I embossed vellum for my background panels and stamped my sentiment on vellum too (clear embossing keeps it from smearing).

All stamps are from Rogue Redhead Designs Snow Hugs set.  The Sketch is this week's Sketchbook Saturday Challenge.  Papers are Basic Grey's Kissing Booth with a little colored pencil highlighting and the addition of a punched silvery moon.

Everything Good

I got new Hero Arts Stamps for the holiday, so I couldn't wait to ink them up.  I decided to use one of the sketches from the December Blog Contest for my layout.

I think the Leaf & Floral Background is going to be a favorite this year ... love the soft effect when stamped with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.  It's such a perfect backdrop for the new Starbursts flowers.

I finished with a sentiment from Essential Messages (in one of my favorite fonts) and a few tiny Hero Arts pearls for the flower sentiments.

And ... the winner of the Hero Arts 2012 Catalog (where she can see more examples made with these pretty new stamps ... is

3.   Well, it's not technically holiday candy, but I do make Buckeyes this time every year. It's tradition! Although I totally didn't do it this year. :/

Posted by: leslie (crookedstamper) | December 21, 2011 at 09:08 PM

Send me your address to SmilynStef at aol (dot) com & I'll get your goodies in the mail.

 

Western Wedding

A friend asked if I could make a card for a Western-themed Wedding.  She said the wedding invitations had been made from kraft paper, so that is what I used as the starting point for my design.

I started by stamping these fun itty bitty unity Brave Boots in brown ink on a post-it note.  Then I inked the boots again with Berrylicious Chalk Ink without cleaning the stamp (to get that sort of dirty-leather look I wanted).  I cut out the boots from the post-it note to use as a mask before stamping a second image of the boots in brown.

Basic Grey is celebrating stamping this week, so I used Basic Grey Batik paper from their Out of Print collection for my background with Nina B's Sketch from The Lily Pad ... it reminded me of a modern bandanna print.

I punched a two hearts (the pink one is from a leftover stamped boot) and added a sentiment & wrap of my husband's baling twine from the garage, because I loved the rustic texture & feel with the western-themed design.

Mr. & Mrs.

Tonight I needed wedding cards ... and as I've mentioned before ... I have virtually no wedding stamps in my stash (note to self ... find some ... do you have any sets you love?).  So I did what any wise stamping gall would do ... I stopped by my friend Laura's house & raided her wedding stamp stash.  I decided to go with two classic stamps from Amuse that never go out of style.

To me wedding cards mean fancy paper & embossing.  The wedding colors are grey and blue, so I made the focal point this fancy piece of grey & silver flocked paper.  I stamped both images in Iris Blue & clear embossed.  The sketch is from Stamping 411 (but I realized after I created the cards that they only allow cards using Stampin' Up to link to their site) ... oh well, great sketch any way.

Here's a second version of the card using a bit more grey.

I'll be linking these cards up for the "Anything Goes" Challenge this week at Less is more.

So Happy For You

This card started in my mind as I thought about different possibilities for the Moxie Fab World Beautiful Borders Challenge.  I knew I needed a Wedding Card and decided to decorate a paper wedding cake using my border punches.

I started with a floral textured designer paper foo my wedding cake base.  I cut my layers and rounded the corners on the top of each.  Next, I used my lacy border punch on the same paper.  The texture of the paper made it a bit tricky to punch, but I was persistent and finally got enough strips to decorate my cake.

I finished with cascading blooms punched from a shimmery ivory designer paper with champagne pearls in the center.  Here's another view that features the texture a bit more.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts All Occasion Messages.  This card is also for this month's Hero Arts dual challenge themes of Congratulations & Weddings.

Flashback Friday 11.0 ~ Weddings

The Flashback Friday 11.0 Challenge is to re-post the very first wedding card you ever blogged.  Mine was a wedding congratuations card for co-workers to sign back in October 2007.  I even used decorative scissors to create that large scallop circle.

Since it didn't have to go through the mail, I piled on the bulky buttons for a Mojo Monday Sketch.  At that time, my husband thought it was a "bit much" ... and looking back, I think I would have to agree... but I do remember the recipient loved it.

Now it's time for you to go wandering through your archives ... be brave and show us your first wedding card creation.

Winter White Wedding Cake

This week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger is this amazing Embroidered Lace and Appliquéd Wedding Cake.  The description says that the cake designer wanted to evoke a hip 60's dress crafted of embroidered lace and blanketed in floral cotton appliqués.  He made 25 different molds that were then filled with sugar paste and applied to the fondant covered cake.

I needed a wedding card, so I decided to see if I could replicate the feel of the cake using paper.

I started with an ivory shimmer paper embossed with flowers that I cut into my cake layers, rounding the corners at the top.  Next I attached ivory trim between the layers and a different ribbon trim to ground the cake.

Next I punched three different flowers from a textured ivory shimmer paper to decorate my cake.  I finished with a clean & simple sentiment from SRM Stickers.  This card is also for the City Crafter Winter White Challenge & the Drunken Stampers White Out Challenge.

It almost looks good enough to eat (then again for me, cake is "the other white meat" ... and wedding cake is in a class by itself).