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This is one of my projects for my end of month classes in November. I had a request from a couple of ladies, to make wedding cards and I was surprised to discover that there are not many stamp sets in the annual catalogue that are suitable for a wedding card. I had to put my thinking cap on for this one!
I have used the Forever Ferns stamp set, with Gray Granite and Crumb Cake card and inks. To give a touch of elegance, I used silver embossing powder, silver foil card, gray granite shimmer ribbon and adhesive pearls.
Inside the card, I used the word “congratulations” from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set.
If you want to attend a class at the end of November, please contact me. Details are on the contact me tab.
Have you ever come across black ice? It’s hard to see at first. It just adds a sheen, a thin layer of shine to the surface. Well that is what this technique does.. it adds a streaky shine to foil card.
I used gold foil card and stamped leaves randomly, using Staz On ink. Staz On works best on foil card. The memento ink tends to slip when stamping on foil and it takes awhile to dry. Most people who do thos technique, also drag the Staz On ink pad lightly over the card and around the edges to create some black streaks but I chose to leave mine plain.
Next swipe Versamark ink pad over the whole foil card piece and sprinkle with clear embossing powder. Take a stiff brush and lightly brush off some powder, creating some streaks as you go. Then heat set. Because you used clear powder you will still be able to see your stamping, the embossing will give the foil card an interesting texture.
It’s Sale-a-bration time again which means for every NZ$110 you spend, you get to choose a free product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I am joining with my fellow South Pacific Demonstrator Council members from last year to showcase one of the Sale-a-bration products.
I have decided to show you the free notecard and envelope pack. They are gorgeous! I feel that the notecards are often overlooked and I want to persuade you as to why they are a good choice. They are called notecards but they are actually an American full sized card. Which means they are slightly higher than our South Pacific sized cards and not quite as wide. Here is a comparison photo…
The cards measure 14 x 10.8 cm when folded in half.
There are 20 cards and 20 envelopes. The envelopes are all the same, in Soft Seafoam with lovely subtle white printing on the front bottom corner and on the envelope flap. Inside the flap is a scattering of pool party small leaf images. There are two different card designs. 10 cards in pool party with a darker pool party leaf background and 10 cards in soft seafoam with a white leaf background. The leaf images coordinate perfectly with the Splendid Day Suite in the annual catalogue.
Because I didn’t have the Splendid Day Suite, I decided to use the Forever Ferns bundle. The colours and patterns were delicate and it needed a stamp set that also had delicate leaf designs. I think this bundle worked perfectly. I kept to the colours in the cards but added in Sweet Sorbet to give it a little lift. I used the white seambinding ribbon as it is also soft and delicate.
On the soft seafoam card, I added a little bit of white embossing, just to carry through the white on soft seafoam look.
The embellishments I used were the in colour matte decorative dots. All the green dots are technically Parakeet Party in colour but because they are ombre dots, I was able to use the lightest green and it toned in well with the soft seafoam background.
I hope these projects inspired you to give this card and matching envelope set a go. I am certainly happy with how these wedding and thank you cards turned out.
Please click on the links below to see what other sale-a-bration products have been used by the other ladies in our blog hop and don’t forget to leave a comment if you like what you see.
Little Paper Star - Rhonda Fawcett 