wedding card

Beautifully Baroque

October 25, 2013 By Connie | 1 Comment

First…want to mention that this is not my card! My girlfriend (and downline) Lynn Flanagan was creative enough to think outside the box and come up with this idea for a wedding card! I'm amazed! I don't have this Beautifully Baroque stamp (page 113 in the big catalog), but certainly never saw a CARRIAGE in it, did you? So…I asked her if I could share it with my blog friends. This is the card she made for her son's wedding a few weeks ago.

Sorry, I don't have any more details…like what stamp she used for the carriage wheels. But I did want to share and hope it inspires you to look at your stamps in a whole new light!

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SUOC72 – Hearts a Flutter

June 4, 2013 By Connie | 8 Comments

We have a fun SUO Challenge today with a theme of Weddings! June is always a popular month for those. It's funny, though. In our family, we have moved on from weddings to babies! Make sure to check out the rest of the wedding cards from the Design Team over on SUO Challenges!

Can you tell what Designer Paper I used? If you said the printed Window Sheet in Quatrefancy Specialty Designer Paper, you are right! It looks great layered on the Basic Black cardstock. I adhered it in places that are hidden by the hearts and greeting!

Here are the details:

Base card is 4 1/4 x 11 Whisper White, folded in half.
I added a 4 x 5 1/4 layer of Whisper White, embossed with the Modern Mosaic folder.
As mentioned earlier, I added a 2 1/4 x 5 1/4 layer of Basic Black cardstock, with a 2 x 5 1/4 piece of Quatrefancy Window Sheet on top.
I stamped the large scallop heart in Hearts a Plenty with Basic Black and cut with the Framelits. Then I cut the small heart from Silver Glimmer Paper and popped it up on top of the larger heart.
I stamped the Forever & Always greeting Loving Thoughts in Basic Black on a 1/2" strip of Whisper White, then cut flag ends. It is layered over a piece of Sliver Glimmer paper, cut with flag ends, too. I popped it up on front with more Stampin' Dimensionals!

I love all the glimmer and texture on her…makes a pretty glamourous card for a wedding! Again, make sure to check out the rest of the wedding card ideas on SUO Challenges today!

LOVE Pennant Parade Wedding Card

August 24, 2011 By Connie | 2 Comments

My friend, Lorri Heiling from Control Freaks Swappers, did a WONDERFUL pop-up birthday cake card for our organized Convention Swap. I loved it! I thought it would make a perfect wedding cake pop-up card, too! So…of course with my son's recent wedding, I had to make one for them using the colors of the wedding!

The base is Night of Navy cardstock and I embossed the top with Elegant Lines Impressions Folder. I stamped Stampin' Up!'s Pennant Parade image four times with Melon Mambo ink and punched with the Pennant Builder punch, then placed them across the front. The LOVE letters inside the pennants are from the lower case Sweet Shoppe stamp set with Night of Navy Ink and punched with the 1/2 Circle punch. There are just two bows of White Bakers Twine on each end. I added Happy I do day from Word Play in White Craft Ink in the bottom corner. But…inside is the magic! lol!

Once you open the top flap, it pulls up the Wedding Cake from the bottom pocket! Yes, sorry, I used some of the retired swirls from Brides Designer Paper. Wish they would bring that collection back! It was so great for weddings! On the top are 3 Melon Mambo flowers with the new Tiny Mini Brads in the centers. Now…I wanted to decorate the cake with flowers, too, like their real cake, but because it pulls up out of the pocket, you have to be careful not to put anything on it that would catch. So…I left it very simple and let the DSP be the star. lol!

So…here is a reminder of what their real cake looked like at the reception!

Come back tomorrow…it's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge time again! See you then!