Come, on wings of joy we’ll fly...

My card today has been made for a colleague for her wedding and features die cuts instead of stamping as the focal feature.

The design of this card was inspired by Redanne who made a beautiful butterfly version, check out her blog to see her original and other gorgeous pieces.  I loved her card from the moment I saw it and knew I wanted to make one someday for something special.  So I went out and bought an accordion card die and then I waited for that special event, which finally came in the form of a wedding.

The bride is not really the traditional white flouncy sort which ruled out an all-white version.  So I was checking out challenges for some colour inspiration and it came from the elegant photo over at Cupcake Inspirations.  The lovely creamy icing looks (at least on my monitor) like the colour paper I’ve used to die cut the birds, the dusting of golden sugar flakes inspired the dusting of gold foil on my birds.  I didn’t have any cardstock in the same cupcakey beige so decided to go with some Kraft instead.  I liked the contrast of the dark table under the cupcakes but thought black would be too harsh for a wedding card so I used a darker brown cardstock to layer over the frame.

I’m not sure how Redanne managed to get her acetate pieces to glue together; I couldn’t so finally cleaned off all the hardened glue and attached them with jump rings.  Guess that’s what happens when you try something new!  And this card does feature a few new things for me, the bird die set is a recent purchase and never used before, the accordion style card is new for me and frankly using brown for a wedding card is a new thing for me too.  With all my new things I am entering my card over at Die Cut Diva’s current challenge.

The current theme at Penny’s Paper-Crafty is for more than one fold, which I have in this card so I am also linking my card up there.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Elizabeth Craft Designs Die ~ 772 Accordion Oval Card & 777 Oval Flourish Frame Edges

Noor! Design Die ~ 6002/0258 Blue Oval

Tim Holtz Alterations Decorative Strip Die ~ 659425 Birds in Flight

Papers

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Kraft

Core’dinations Textured Cardstock ~ Chocolate Mocha

Couture Creations ~ Acetate

House of Paper Romanesque Card ~ White Champagne

Challenges

Cupcake Inspirations #341 ~ Elegance inspiration photo

Die Cut Diva’s ~ NEW Technique, Die, Stamp, Colours

Penny’s Paper-Crafty #259 ~ More than one fold

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