Wedding Card Number 2

Afternoon all,

Silver card is dodgy to photo. This is the best shot out of like 20 in all sorts of scenarios. I do have some funny sounding stuff on the camera menu which would most likely be what I want, but have lost interest in wading through all that stuff! I so do have to sit and fiddle with this new camera so I can see what it does!

I have cased my own card for our Rubber Bombshell's Challenge. I had to change two things...so colour and the way the ribbon was attached. See my pretty bow? I hate making bows. They never turn out...yeah....yeah I can hear you say. Well, this is one I recycled off the candles I picked up at the supermarket the other day. The bow was already done. ROFL!...but I can pass it off as my own now ;)

The materials list is the same as yesterday, apart from the silver card and that - I have no idea where I snaffled it!

I have done my daughter's order now, but still have to make me one to take to the wedding, myself...better make that two....I have a son who will think about it like two minutes before we get into the car!

Wedding Card Number 1

Afternoon everyone,

Ok ....I have been practising these punched circles. I saw this great tutorial on Becca's blog

http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/circle-frame-tutorial/

and immediately thought I would love to try that myself for a wedding card.

Now, am somewhat anal retentive and I can see some of my friends furiously nodding their collective heads! (cows...you know who you are!!!!)...Oh yes, back on task...so I had to fine tune the process after watching the video. Instead of placing the punch inside each set of lines, I lined up the inside tip of the heart and the bit where the heart dips in the centre at the top with the pencil line of each sector. This made each heart always the same distance apart. (I so don't like the near enough is good enough thing. I tend to not like the thing coz I KNOW it isn't quite right!)....as I said...anal!

I have raised both the scalloped circle pieces, added pearls in the spaces around the hearts and threaded ribbon through the bottom. This is a truly momochromatic card being only shades of purple.

I am actually quite chuffed with how it turned out and I am sure our niece Carly will love it, as Magella, my daughter asked me to make it for her to give her cousin. Both Carly and Magella are purple mad!

Materials

Stamps: Hero Arts CL268 Warmest Wedding

Inks: Adirondack Brights Purple Surf

Cardstock: Bazzill

Other: EK Success Heart Corner Punch, Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Kaiser Lavender Pearls, Purple Grosgrain and Purple Ribbon, DSFT, SU Ribbon Punch, Nestabilities Circles Scalloped and Straight

Must see Demo

I was visiting Louise's http://www.punknscrap.com/ great site when I came across a post referencing the sharpening of punches. Now sharpening punches has been a royal pain in times past, but this lady, http://lindastamps.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/stampbusters-sharpening-your-punches-with-soda-cans/ has an interesting way of attacking it! Worth a go if your punch is at death's door...Nothing to lose, and hey, it really does look like it works.

I have been blog hopping all morning doing some catching up since I had the busiest of weekends ...beginning on Friday, and intend to post something this afternoon!

Stay tuned.