Heartfelt Wishes & BIG News!

Hi Blog Friends! Let me just start right in with my BIG News! I'm on my First Design Team! I'm now officially on the 2011-2012 PPRS Design Team as a Guest Designer! I'm super excited and can't wait to design my first card with their beautiful stamps! Congrats to all the Design Team members, and thanks, Nicole, for giving me the opportunity to work with such a talented group of designers. Be sure to stop by each of their blogs to say hi, and to see their beautiful creations!

2011-2012 PPRS Design Team:

Amy

Angelica

Audrey

Cheryl (That's Me!)

Kristii

Lori

Melissa

Michelle

Tesa

Ujjwal

My card today is one I made a few months ago, but had left blank inside. My mother needed a wedding card for my cousin's upcoming wedding, and this particular one is perfect, as they are using sunflowers and rich fall colors in the wedding.

To make this card, I embossed the chandelier on vellum and sponged Wild Honey Distress Ink on the raised areas on the back. Then I turned it over and sponged Crushed Olive Distress Ink on the raised areas of the front. I glued the vellum to white cardstock, then cut it in an oval shape with my Curvy Cutter (This was before I owned very many Spellbinders dies). I added yellow Stickles to the lights of the chandelier and clear Stickles to the chandelier crystals. I sponged pumice stone around the edge of the oval.

I randomly stamped a distressing stamp over the entire bottom panel, then scored the cardstock every half inch. I folded on the score lines and sponged each folded edge with Wild Honey Distress Ink.

For the inside of the card, I typed the bride and groom's names in Word, printed on a transparency, then rubbed it onto the cardstock (thank goodness for homemade rub-ons!). I then used a fancy flourish under that, and a sentiment in the opposite corner, along with a wedding ring stamp.

There are two little flowers in the flourish, in which I placed a tiny dot of gold Stickles, and I also used gold Stickles on the wedding rings. I didn't try to completely fill in the rings--just wanted some sparkle.

And, that's all there was to it. ;)

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and be sure to come back again, soon. I'll have lots of Prickley Pear stamps to show you, and I'll also have even MORE exciting news to share with you next weekend!

Thanks for visiting!

 

Stamps: Wedding (Inkadinkadoo); Distressing (Glitz); All Occasion Messages (Hero Arts)
Paper: Vellum (The Paper Co.); Darice
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Memento
Dies: Lattice Border, Blossom Two (Spellbinders)

Accessories: Arch Lattice Edge Punch (Martha Stewart); Love is in the Air embossing folder (Cuttlebug); Organic Borders embossing folders (Cuttlebug); Curvy Cutter (EK Success); craft knife; Corner Chomper; scoreboard (Martha Stewart); rhinestones; sewing thread; twine (The Twinery); Stickles; Perfect Pearls Mist; foam dots; computer (for personalization)

Size: 6" square

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