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
House of Paper
Romanesque Card ~ White Champagne
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!