Day: May 29, 2022

A Simple Wedding Card

On By celestelindIn Crafting1 Comment

This is a very simple card using the swans from Heartfelt Creations Calla Lily collection. I tried to copy one similar to this found on their DT Gallery.

This is part of an inspiration piece for “A Place to Start” card challenge for the month of June (2022) – and the theme is “Down the Aisle”

I used some generic deep pink for the background, and embossed the white overlay and the pink part of the heart. Then I lightly shaded the center of the heart with a pale pink. The heart was also cut out of a shiny gold paper, as were the swans, to add a little glitz. The sentiment I just typed and printed off my computer, backed it with some gold as well. The whole thing probably took less than an hour from start to finish!

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Accordion Tunnel Cards

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These are two different accordion tunnel cards – I needed something for a young man’s birthday (hence the Steampunk) but as I had never made one before, I needed to practice and kind of make a template.

For my practice accordion tunnel, I chose Mintay’s Dreamer 6×6” paper, partly because I enjoy the floral color scheme, and partly because I was lucky enough to have two Paper packs, and so had plenty of spares, in case I messed up! The base was created from a single 8-1/2” x 11” piece of white cardstock, which was cut into two 4-1/4 x 5-1/2” cards. I won’t bore you with details, as there are basic tutorials on YouTube.

Here is a look at the side:

For the Steampunk card, I used a 12×12” piece of Kraft paper, to creat two 6×6” cards for the base. I used Stamperia’s Vagabond paper and chipboard ephemera – left over from when I made that album last year.

I also added a few metal embellishments to go along with the Steampunk theme, and slipped a Happy Birthday sentiment along the second part of the accordion (in gold, doesn’t really show well).

I have to say, when he saw I made him a card, he wasn’t surprised. But when he actually looked at it, he liked it more and more. So success!

From the Side

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