Wedding Flower

If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that last week I was asked to make a wedding card for one of the teachers at school. I was happy with how it turned out but then I was asked a couple of days ago to make another wedding card for the same person.   That made it hard because I have no wedding sets and I didn’t want to use the set I used last time (Always) again.

So I started looking at challenges for some much-needed inspiration today.
I found a great sketch of Rita’s at Freshly Made Sketches. 



And The Paper Players have a theme challenge this week which is Spring and that means flowers and butterflies to me.

So I decided to combine the two challenges and this is what I came up with:





I made a big paper flower again using very vanilla and spritzed it with champagne shimmer mist. I made another crumpled double bow too (thanks Ann).  I  clear embossed the butterfly from Kindness Matters and coloured them  with a blender pen and baja and river rock. I  have bent up their wings and attached them with mini glue dots.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Kindness Matters, Tiny tags, Cheer and Wishes
Card : vanilla, baja, suede, river rock
Ink : suede, versamark, crumb cake, baja, river rock
Other : tag punch, big shot, polka dot ef, lattice ef, swirls scribbles, island floral, 5 petal flower punch, fancy flower punch, antique brad, lace, crumb cake seam binding, blender pen, champagne shimmer mist/alcohol, clear ep, linen thread


Hopefully the person I made this for will be happy with the card.  I may just have to invest in a wedding set, it would make things so much simpler!


Kathy

Big and beautiful

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a great sketch challenge from Bronwyn.

 

Here is what I came up with :

 

 

I decided to try to make a collage for my background and then cut it into three panels to fit the sketch.  I used a few different stamps and colours and I think it worked quite well.

The flower is big and beautiful.  I made it as I’ve made these paper flowers before but this time I used the island floral die, fancy flower punch and the five petal flower punch.  It actually looks better in real life, it kind of looks a bit flat in the photo but it isn’t.  I also decided to see how it would look with different coloured petals.  I used pink pirouette and blushing bride and spritzed it with champagne shimmer mist so it’s actually a bit sparkly.  I really like how it turned out.

I also tried something new with the bow.  It is a double bow with crumpled seam binding.  I found a really great tutorial by Ann Schach here if you’d like to give it a try too.

 

Ingredients:

Stamps : French foliage, nature walk

Card : crumb cake, white, suede, pink pirouette, blushing bride

Ink :  crumb cake, suede, river rock, calypso coral, baja

Other : big shot, island floral die, fancy flower punch, 5 petal flower punch, crumbcake seam binding, antique brad, metallic brads

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the JAI design team created using this sketch as their inspiration and get creative yourself.

 

Kathy

Triple Z

 

This is another z-fold card I made using the SAB dsp and my new triple treat flower and punches.

It has a boho kind of look which doesn’t translate particularly well in a photo unfortunately.  It does look prettier in real life.

I really like the band on this one.  I used the tasteful trim die to cut the border pattern from peach parfait and I did some faux stitching on it too.

 

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : oval all, triple treat flower

Card : confetti white, peach parfait, white, everyday enchantment dsp

Ink :  crumb cake, suede

Other : big shot, tasteful trim, beautiful wings, oval punch, 5 petal punch, fancy flower punch, boho punch, everyday enchantment brad, mat pack, white pen

 

This paper pack is really gorgeous and is free with a $100 order!  Please email me if you’d like to place an order :)

 

Kathy

Happy Sunshiny Card

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge.

 

And this is what I came up with…..

 

I had seen a sketch challenge early last year and had bookmarked it (it was even before the days of “pinning”) hoping to give it a try one day.  I thought it was such a cute sketch!  Well I finally decided to use it with this colour challenge and I love the way it turned out. There is a tutorial by Shannan Teubner here if you’d like to give it a try too.

My daughters had been bugging me for a while to buy the triple treat flower and I finally gave in and got it.  This is my first card using it and they were right, it is very pretty!  I’m sure we’ll all have lots of fun coming up with different colour combos for it.  I decided to white emboss it onto wisteria and pool party cardstock for this challenge.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Triple treat flower, so happy for you

Card : white, pool party, celery, subtle dsp stack, wisteria

Ink : versamark, stazon, crumb cake

Other : white embossing powder, square punch, stripes ef, big shot, designer printed brad, fancy flower punch, 5 petal flower punch, boho punch

 

One of my daughter’s teachers is getting married in a few weeks and I thought I might even give her this card.  It’s kind of an unconventional wedding card but I think it would work.

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have come up with using these colours and give our challenge a try yourself :)

 

Kathy

Z Flower

I have my stamp club tomorrow and our hostess asked if I could show them how to make a Double Z fold card.  I decided to work this in with the challenge at The Paper Players this week which is to add a flower to your project. There are so many beautiful cards on their site, it is inspiring.

This is the outside of the card.  I have used a band to keep it closed and added a beautiful paper flower, which is something else I’ll be able to teach my club ladies.  I first saw one on Joanne Leddy’s blog, there is a tutorial here if you’d like to see how it’s done.






This is how the card looks once you remove the band and open it up.






Ingredients :
Stamps : Fresh Vintage, Field Flowers
Card : black, vanilla, everyday enchantment dsp, poppy parade
Ink : stazon, calypso coral & lucky limeade markers, crumb cake
Other : boho, fancy flower, 5 petal flower punches,  everyday enchantment ribbon and brad


I think the ladies are going to love making this card.
I hope so anyway :)



FYI : I have been asked if I would provide the measurements for this card, so here they are.
         I have altered it from other z-fold instructions I've seen so that I didn't have to use 12 x 12" card.
       
         Cut base card at 15 x 27cm
         Score at 4 1/2  and 9 cm in from both ends. (Card is in landscape orientation).
         Fold in second score line at both ends and fold back out on first score.


Kathy