Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed

Sharing an engagement card featuring the Cheers image from Vanilla Arts.

I really wasn’t sure what to put on this card so looked at some challenges for inspiration.  Over at Less is More their current theme is beverages, which naturally made me think of champagne and toasting to the happy couple.  The gold dipped prompt at Inkspirational led me to foiling, mostly because I couldn’t find the champagne die I have and I only had the digi not a real stamp so couldn’t ink up with gold.  I did add in the stars with a stamp and used Jennifer McGuire’s foil stamping technique.  Not sure if it was my dodgy stamping (I knew I should have used my Tim platform!) or what but my foiling ended up rather thicker than I expected.  I would have started again but my laser printer was being temperamental so I thought best to stick to what I had.

I used the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches for my layout.  The stars form the larger rectangle element and I brought in the three circles with a die cut around my image and sentiment.  I popped the die cut up on foam dots for some added depth, seeing as I cut it straight from the kraft cardstock of my card front.  I also layered up the front on some gold and black cardstock because, well, I love layering over multiple mats.

Although the colour scheme is neutral and there aren’t any embellies I think the foiling adds a touch of elegance and I am really quite pleased with how this came together.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Simon Says Stamp! Dies ~ SSSD111455 Stitched Rectangles

Inks & Paints etc

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Licorice

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core Metallics Cardstock ~ Gold

iCraft Decofoil ~ Gold

Kraft Cardstock from stash

Stamps

Vanilla Arts ~ Cheers

Winnie & Walter ~ WW001 Scenery: Big Bang Confetti

Challenges

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