Quilts and Cards: wedding card

Monday, January 13, 2020

Happy 2020!

Greetings and Happy New Year for 2020!

My craft room has been not so busy lately as we have been doing family things and looking after grandchildren. However, I have managed to do a bit of a spring clean and make a couple of things.

My daughter needed a wedding card for her friend getting married last Friday. Dreaming Tree has some lovely card files and I chose the lily card from the Cascade Cards Bundle. If you want to see more of their designs click on the link to Dreaming Tree on the sidebar.

I made the card from Close to my Heart French Vanilla cardstock and gold foil card. The panels on the front and back were embossed in the Cuttlebug and the lettering was done using the Quill Foil in my Maker machine. The entire design was cut using the Cricut Maker.

I added pieces of gold foil card behind the leafy cutouts on the front to show them up.

Very pleased with the result.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Wedding Season

With summer in full swing in the northern hemisphere, it is wedding season and the card I am showcasing for the Printable Craft Shop is a wedding card. It is available as a cutting file from here and comes in a number of different formats for different cutting machines.

The first time I cut this file, I used the Colonial White cardstock from Close to My Heart. It is a cream colour and I wanted to try the file out in a monochromatic scheme.

It does not stand out in the photo as well as it does in real life, but maybe judicious use of an embossing folder would add to the impact of this card.

The second cut was done using one of my favourite paper packs from CTMH - La Vie En Rose - still available until the end of July!

I used white for the base card, black for the shadow layer for the words and a chevron striped paper for the words.

The leaves and flowers were cut from plain colours and the background was cut from the signature paper from the pack. I just love the flowers in the paper.

Do check out the fabulous cutting files available from the Printable Craft Shop - there are some specials on at the moment too so it is even better value at the moment.

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.