Make it Work Wednesday: A Simple Wedding Card.

OK- So I have three cousins getting married in the next year-- that means a minimum of 6 wedding/shower cards ... and it has been a wonderful excuse for picking up little hearts and wedding embellishments over the past couple of months...

This makes a standard small card-- Finished size 4.5" X .55" +/-.  Could be adjusted for larger card-- don't want to go smaller...

Supplies needed:

Papers:

Vellum Quote

4X4" pink card scrap

base card and envelope (I chose black & white for this formal wedding)-- I actually picked the one in the window of this box from the La Creme collection. 

Assorted embellishments

Front cover: dress, silver heart, "soul mates" or other word embellishment, silver open heart with gem,  round gems in clear (1), light pink (1) and dark pink (1)

Interior: vellum love quote, silver ribbon, 2 dark pink gems

From your Basics Kit: craft knife, ribbon threader punch, clear liquid glue, Created with Love stamp, silver stamp pad.

Steps

1: Center pink scrap on front of card so some of the black and white pattern shows around all sides.

2. My "open heart with gem" sticker had a red gem which is cute, but doesn't work with my silver/black/pink theme, so I popped it off, put a dot of glue in its place and used tweezers to put in the new tiny pink gem to match the color theme better.

Originally, a red gem, which was OK, but PINK was better.

3. Also, I loved the "Soul Mates" embellishment, but when I put it on the card, it LEPT off the page, because it had not one, but two layers of foam tape on it, so I carefully cut the bottom layer off-- which didn't change the look of the sticker, just kept it from JUMPING UP AND BITING the bride on the face.

This is a CRAZY amount of dimension for a small sticker.  

4.  Apply stickers in  whatever style you like.  For me that means dress in the middle/on an angle... hearts on either side, words at the bottom, and gems on left.  Some people would keep everything on the pink card, but I prefer breaking the lip a little bit so most is on pink but some goes over the edge. 

5.  The inside was also a little challenging-- because vellum, while beautiful, can be a total pain to work with, adhesive-wise.  I have ruined some lovely sentiments with a glue dot that shows through the vellum... So, I tend to apply other things (brads, eyelets, etc.) to hold the vellum onto the card... I decided, since the sentiment was almost the same width as the card to just attach it directly to the base card.  This made sense given the look, but is a little harder to do, since punching holes into the top of the landscaped card was impossible.  

6. So first, I punched holes through the vellum, then laid the vellum down and scratched a tiny line onto the card where the holes were.  

7. Then I put my craft knife through the holes just enough so I could pull my ribbon through them, then threaded through the vellum to connect the two.

8. I'm not usually big on bling inside a card, but I added round gems (same as front) in the center of the ribbon and cut the ends in matching lengths and >< on the ends.

All done!

Finish it up with the "handmade" stamp on the back -

A simple and elegant card-- very easy to make and impress the brides in your life with your mad card making skills.

Enjoy!