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Woodblock Wedding

It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday.

 

My clean & simple card uses two woodblock stamps ... Wedding Couple from Rubber Soul and {Love} from Catslife Press.

 

 

Always fun to revisit how my stamping journey began.

Woodblock Wedding

It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday with Amy T.

 

 

I decided to combine my card with the Stay Crafty with a Blog Name Hero Challenge - Do You Believe in Love.

 

 

I needed a wedding card, so I pulled out this set of Hero Arts Wood Mounted Wedding Celebration stamps from 2002 for a Clean & Simple wedding card design.

 

 

I added the love sentiment from Hero Arts Birthday Messages in grey ink.

 

 

I finished with some tiny Prima flowers with silver text.

Woodblock Wedding

It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday.

 

 

I needed a wedding card, so I pulled out two favorites from my stash.  The Art Deco Couple from A Muse Artistamps still had the price tag from Expressions With Heart, a favorite wood block stamp store that my friend & I used to venture to several times a year to spend the day shopping (miss hanging out with you Pam).

 

 

The sentiment is from Catslife Press.

Autumn Whisper Wedding

This week's Autumn Whisper Sunday Stamps colors are the perfect hues for a Boho Chic Wedding card I needed to make.

 

 

This card was a challenge to photograph with all of it's wonderful shimmer.  I used shimmery sage green paper with the Impression Obsession Heart Couple Frame.

 

 

 

The background was created by using the two rusty shades from the color palette to create a solid gel print.  I finished by spraying Tim Holtz Burning Ember Distress Mica Stain to give it a bit more interest and the same shimmery quality as the die cut.

When I have a die cut with lots of intricate parts to keep adhered (especially with inked & sprayed paper), I attach it with Gina K. Designs Adhesive Dot Runner and then run it through my Empress machine to compress the two pieces of paper together.

Fancy Fold Wedding Card

The July #TEMakerChallenge at Taylored Expressions is to make a Fancy Fold card.

 

I'm not usually a fancy fold type of girl, so I went to SplitcoastStampers for some ideas.  I settled on this Corner Tuck Fancy Fold Card.  I modified it slightly using cardstock (Taylored Expressions Tropical Punch) instead of designer paper.

 

 

I used Taylored Expressions Poblano Pepper ink with stamps from Taylored Expressions Flip the Floral.  I framed it with metallic gold cardstock and used the same gold cardstock for the corner tuck element.  I put a rectangle of cardstock behind the panel for the message.

Flowers, Flowers Everywhere!

The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Flowers, Flowers Everywhere!

 

 

There was a time in my paper crafting past where flowers were my go-to embellishment, so much show that I would shop the floral section to see if there were hydrangeas or other silk blooms that I could dissect to add to my flower stash.  Since then I've purged a lot of my flowers, but I still found a long-forgotten stash to work with.

The first thing that came to mind were the floral decorated wedding cake cards I used to make ... it looks like the last one was in 2016.  Since most of the flowers I have in my stash are neutral tones, I decided to use a piece of sprayed paper for my cake base (since I've seen some cool air-brushed wedding cakes).  I used this scrap from my stash that combined pink, green and yellow.

 

 

I combined blooms from lots of different brands to make the path up my cake.  I even pulled out tiny old-school golden brads for the flower centers for the tiny white prima blooms.

 

While I was shopping my stash for lots of old school supplies, I pulled out a golden sticker sentiment to finish the design using the sketch from The Paper Players.

We can't wait to see what you do with those flowers in your stash.

Heart Love

It's the time of year for Heart Cards, and that's the Challenge theme at Just Us Girls.

I started by playing with some new Japanese Sakura Shimmery Pastels that I found at my local Create/Exchange yesterday to create a scribbled and blended background ... absolutely gorgeous color and shimmer.

 

As the packaging noted, they are harder than any Pastel I've ever used with less dust ... I had to use much less to get the color saturation I was wanting and they blended effortlessly.

 

 

Next I attached gorgeous wide Pink Peony Washi Tape from The Ton to white cardstock and die cut a Spellbinders heart.   The washi has gorgeous copper metallic elements, so I die cut Simon Says Stamp Etched Berry Branch from Copper Metallic Cardstock to adorn my heart.  I used the same copper metallic cardstock to frame my card.

 

I finished with some enamel dots on the berries to bring out another color in the washi tape and a tiny love sentiment from Catslife Press stamped inside another Spellbinders Die Cut Heart.  With my little Wood Block Stamp, I'm linking-up again at Amy T's #woodblockwednesday challenge.

 

I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes Cut It Up! Challenge.

The Best Thing to Hold Onto in Life

The August Stock Your Stash Challenge at Reverse Confetti is to make a Wedding Card.  It was perfectly timed, since a friend is getting married next weekend.

 

 

I decided to take my design inspiration from the Inspire.Create.Challenge.  I found some Alcohol Ink Designer paper that I paired with some texty paper from my stash.

 

 

I used the sentiment and flowers from Reverse Confetti Something Wonderful.   The finished card is a top fold 5" x 6" so I could add a wrap of yellow twine under the sentiment.  I finished with some coordinating crystal gems.

 

 

I'm also joining the Addicted to Stamps Challenge to use Stencils and/or Die Cuts.

 

 

 

And Retro Rubber Challenge is Anything Goes.  These stamps are from January 2018 and are still wedding favorites.

 

Wedding Love

I love how just switching-up colors with the same stamps & die cuts can give you completely different looks.

My wedding card stash is completely depleted, so I shopping my Gel Press Print drawer and picked out some prints that I thought would make good wedding card backgrounds.  Next I shopped my cardstock scraps to find coordinating colors to use with the backgournds.

First wedding card uses an Alcohol Ink Gel Press print with copper metallic cardstock.

 

 

The die cut is Impression Obsession Heart Couple Frame (probably one of the most used Die Cuts in my stash ... it makes wedding card making so easy).  The sentiment is Impression Obsession Love Stamp by Kalani Allred.

I'm linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

 

 

Love this dramatic color combination from the Global Design Project and love the visual interest a gel press print adds as a background.

 

I love how the white really makes this background pop.   I'm linking this one up at the We Love Stamping Challenge where the theme is Hot Sunny Colors ... I think these hues fit the bill (however I was notified multiple times by different blog members that my card did not have enough stamping to qualify for their challenge, so it has been deleted.  Make sure if you consider entering their challenges that you only include stamping and not other techniques/products).

Wedding card stash restocked ... yay!  Do you have a favorite?

Across the Border

The current challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use Border Punches or Border Die Cuts.  

 

 

I pulled out my collection of neglected border punches and used them to make a paper wedding cake with some lovely opalescent shimmer paper.  I combined lots of different border punches to decorate.

 

 

 

I finished my decorating with some Love from Lizi Peel-off Stickers, Daisy Flower Stickers and a wedding sentiment.

Do you have some neglected Border Punches you'd like to show some love?