Category: Wedding Cards

Congratulations Cards, Stampin' Up!, Wedding Cards

Floral Boutique Washi Tape CASE

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Hello everyone! I recently taught a class based on the Floral Boutique Suite (p. 76-77 of the Annual Catalog). I had a blast scouring Pinterest for awesome projects to CASE (Copy and Share Everything). Although my favorite product in this suite is the dice cut set, Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies, I did want to have one card in the class that did not involve die cutting. I decided to go with a card that put the Floral Boutique Washi Tape front and center. Here’s what I came up with. 🙂

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I need to give credit to Kay Kalthoff for the original on which my card is CASEd. Here is her lovely card. As you can see, I drew the washi tape, ribbon and sentiment inspiration from her card. 

I had a lot of fun adding in some color here. Night of Navy is really the only color of this suite and while it is beautiful and elegant, I thought the Rose Red helped give a little excitement to this “Congratulations” card.

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I have been on a little bit of a kick with this angled washi tape look. I love off setting the sentiment on the top and then balancing it out on the bottom with a few little punched hearts or some lovely pearls. I like Kay’s idea of adding some baker’s twine in the mix. 🙂
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I hope you are inspired to create with some of Stampin’ Up!’s gorgeous washi tape. I’d love to see what you come up with. If you send me your creations at stephaniemackey2012@gmail.com, I might include them in a future blog post.:)

Joyful stamping!

~Stephanie

Supplies**: Floral Boutique Designer Washi Tape, Floral Phrases Stamp Set, Night of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine, Whisper White Cardstock, Whisper White Thick Cardstock, Rose Red Card Stock, Rose Red Classic Stampin’ Pad, Pearls Basic Jewels, Snail Adhesive, Paper Snips, & Stampin’ Trimmer.

**All supplies can be purchased from my online store. If you would like to place an order (and it is under $150) I invite you to enter 4SHN2EBW in the Hostess Code box. Thank you for your support!

 

Punch Art, Stampin' Up!, Wedding Cards

Owl Wedding

smackey2012

Hello everyone! I’ve been browsing Pinterest for more cute owl cards. I just had to make this adorable owl wedding card. Here is the link to the original card.

Owl Wedding

I think if I made this card again (which I can definitely see happening 🙂 ), I would probably experiment with different layering behind the owl images.

Here are the dimensions of the card base & layers: Whisper White base= 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ (scored at 4 1/4″), Basic Gray layer= 4 x 4 1/4″, Basic Black layer= 3 1/2 x 4 1/4″, Whisper White layer= 3 x 4 1/4″, Basic Black strip= 4 x 3/4″.

Owl Wedding Close Up

My favorite parts of this card are the owl bride’s dress and crown. It’s crazy how a little glimmer paper and some rhinestones can make an owl look like a girl. 🙂

I hope you are inspired by this post. Re-creating this card was a lot of fun! I invite you to check out my Owl Builder Punch board on Pinterest.

Joyful stamping!

~Stephanie

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Embossing Paste Cards, Just Because Cards, Stampin' Up!, Wedding Cards

Pearlescent Embossing Paste Cards

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Hello all! When I started this embossing paste series I said I would post four cards in four days.  I got a little off of my schedule (we had a busy last two days), but here are two cards using pearlescent embossing paste.

This first card uses the 4th and last stencil in the Happy Patterns Decorative Masks pack. I really like how the word “happy” is part of the stencil. I wanted to go simple for the first card.  This card uses Basic Black cardstock with the pearlescent embossing paste. The embossing paste sort of looks silver against the black cardstock, but it is really pearlescent.
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I decided to make another card with the pearlescent embossing paste, but a little more stepped up. I thought I would showcase another set of Stampin’ Up! stencils as well. This pack of stencils is called the Dots and Stripes Decorative Masks.

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I looked on Pinterest for some inspiration for using pearlescent embossing paste and was inspired to go lighter for this second card. I think the pearlescent paste against the Whisper White cardstock looks so sophisticated. It inspired me to make this card a wedding card.

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I decided to add to the sophistication of this wedding card with a few gold accents. I used Whisper White cardstock for my card base. I then used the Gold Foil Sheets for a layer behind the technique piece. I also added some little gold hearts from the Metallic Sequin Assortment.  I used the Tin of Cards stamp set to stamp my sentiment with Versamark ink, and then embossed it with Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder using the Heat Tool.

To finish off the card I used my Big Shot machine and Butterflies Thinlits dies to cut out some adorable little butterfly accents from vellum cardstock. I forgot how easy the vellum cardstock is to work with – very heavy duty. Our Fast Fuse adhesive is an awesome adhesive for vellum. The adhesive does not show through the vellum like most adhesives do. It’s fantastic! I popped up both the gold layer and the sentiment banners with Stampin’ Dimensionals and used Multipurpose Liquid glue to adhere the sequins.

I had so much fun playing with my different embossing pastes that I have a feeling I might have more cards to add to this series. I won’t commit to it though, just in case I feel inspired to make other types of cards for a little while. 🙂

I have a piece of exciting news to share with you: Stampin’ Up!’s 2015 Holiday Catalog went live today! You can view the Holiday Catalog here.  It is divided up into product suites for ease of viewing. Once my pre-order of Holiday Catalog products arrives (today!), I will start playing around with the new products and will post samples soon. I’m so excited to start creating! 🙂

Joyful stamping!

~Stephanie