Wedding Card for the Cutest Couple

Hey stampers, Anni here!

A friend of mine married some time ago and I made this wedding card for her and her husband.

There are not a lot of wedding stamp sets in my stash but one I love very much is Mama Elephant's Oh Happy Birds. There are beautiful sentiments and super cute images in this set.

I started by stamping, colouring and fussy cutting the images I wanted to use.

Then I die cut a square from cream cardstock using My Favorite Things' Inside/Out Stitched Square STAX. On this square I stamped the initials of the couple. Unfortunatly this alphabet set is not longer available at Seven Hills Crafts. But there are over 70 other alpabet stamp or die sets to choose from - I bet you'll find one you like.

For the vellum heart I used Lawn Fawn's Heart Stackables. I adhered the bird couple, the flowers and the sentiment stripe to the heart. On the backside of the heart I could now add glue where the images sit. This way you can't see the glue from the front.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

      

Layer your dies for less!

Hi everybody,

Jill here, and this week, I'm trying to create some faux die layering...

...for a whole lot less cash than layering dies cost!

Using Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn loveliness.

I'm sure we've all seen the very beautiful layering dies featured in a certain Queen of papercraft, Jennifer Mcguire's 'Favourite's of 2016' a while back.  Yes they looked stunning, if not a little limited, but holy macaroni...HOW MUCH??!!!  I did love the layered look they created however, so had an idea to try and make something similar with my own supplies.

I started by cutting three separate panels of card in the colours I wanted to use all to the same size.  I then created a stencil from a piece of extra sturdy card, cut to the same size, by drawing a grid onto it and cutting the largest heart from Lawn Fawns 'Heart Dies', symmetrically across it in the design I desired.  I then used this stencil over the piece of each panel, to know where the next size down heart should be placed to be cut, (does that make sense?  I really should have took progress photos :/ ).

Once all my hearts were cut onto each layer, in descending order, I adhered my panels together so that they 'layered' over each other, creating this design.  I really love how it worked out, it may not be perfect, but it also didn't cost 4 million gazillion pounds like the ones I referred to do!

My card is intended to be for those single friends who can sometimes feel a little left out at Valentine's day so  I cut Mama Elephant's 'Friend' die from black card backed with black foam, and completed my sentiment using Mama Elephant's Friend Indeed set which I stamped onto vellum in black pigment ink, and clear heat embossed.

I added a scattering of gold sequins and mounted my piece onto a pool card base as I thought it made the colours really 'pop' brightly.  Go bright or go home, right?  And that was that.

I'm really happy with how this turned out, and can't wait to see what other sets I have in my stash that will layer nicely...without breaking the bank!

Everything I used is linked below so be sure to have a peek.

see you next week..

Jillx