And yet another Shower Invite card!!

I have NOT been neglecting this blog, I have NOT been neglecting this blog....okay - maybe a little bit! But I have been crafting! Some things I just can't show you yet! Maybe in the near future tho....and I've also made 24 more Wedding Shower invites. I think this is the last round of invites that I should have to create. And this time it was a bit of a challenge. I was VERY, VERY limited on Elegant Eggplant paper. All I had were scraps. YIKES! So, then I was trying to figure out just what to do. This was not easy for me. I think I had 4 dummy invites made up before I decided to just do it. In the end, this is what I came up with:

I'm not jumping up and down over the whole look of it - it steers in the complete opposite direction of my typical clean and simple layout. I tried several things - I tried just one flourish, I tried 3 flourishes, and I tried 4. I tried a completely different background of small flowers. I tried a scallop edge on the edge of the card, then I tried it torn. In the end, I think it's alright. I DO love the dress image in this stamp set (Blooming with Happiness - SU Retired). And the flourishes are nice and elegant....it could all grow on me!

More to come this week - for real!

Jen

Recipe:

Stamps: Blooming with Happiness, Baroque Motifs

Ink: Eleganct Eggplant, Stazon White
Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Nesties Dies, SU Lots of Tags Die, Fine Cosmo Glitter - what??? No ribbon????

More Bridal Showers...

I had a bridal shower to attend this weekend, so was in need of a card of course. The bride's wedding colors are red and silver, so I tried to incorporate that into my card. I love to use the retired set, Blooming with Happiness, for showers and such. The dress is just so stinkin' cute!
Here was the creation!

I also used my new Nestabilities dies for the oval and scalloped oval that I layered it with. It was the first time I used them, and I think I'm gonna love them. They work great with my Big Shot, and I like to have the variety of sizes that come in a package.

I used silver embossing powder to emboss the image, then colored in the flowers with my Stampin' Up! markers. It was one way for me to get some silver in the card. I was really wishing that I'd had some silver paper while assembling this card. The gray strip was embossed with my Big Shot too, using SU exclusive Texturz Plates.

Stop back tomorrow for a look at the gift I made her!

Jen

Recipe:
Stamps: Blooming with Happiness
Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red, Rockabilly DSP (polka dot paper)
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, Big Shot, Nestabilities Oval and Scalloped Ovals, SU Markers, Silver embossing powder

April Showers bring May...SHOWERS?

Well, they do in my neck of the woods - of the bridal variety that is! My mom, Aunt Patricia and myself are hosting a bridal shower for my cousin Ashley. Remember when I posted this favor box I had made a sample of? Yeah - that's the same wedding. Anyway - co-hosting this bridal shower meant that I was in charge of invites. So, they go a little something like this:

A little bling:

A little embossing:

And viola! Yippy skippy for invites! I really am liking her choice of colors. Although skeptical at first - they are just nice bright happy colors! Very pretty together!

Recipe:

Stamps: Blooming with Happiness (retired); Hugs & Wishes

Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Tempting Turquoise, Very Vanilla

Ink: Stazon Jet Black

Accessories: Big Shot Embossing Plate, E. Eggplant ribbon, glitter