Autumnal Embossed Wedding Card

The time of year, all the lovely rich colours around and a request to create something different is what inspired this wedding card, made for a special friend to give, and I really enjoyed making it. Its very different from the usual wedding colours and theme, and reminds me of all those beautiful autmumn shades.

I played around with the leaves and the inking for a good while until I was happy that the colour scheme was just right, and would complement all of the white. The names are added using copper embossing powder and a just rite alphabet stamps.

The leaves are die cut from a mixture of quickutz and spellbinders leaf dies and the inks a mixture of adirondak and color box chalk inks; the embossing done with slightly thinner and smoother white card, using a quickutz vine embossing folder.

The border was punched using a Martha Stewart punch, and the card was finished off by placing it in a decorated box.

Going golfing with the men!

This one I wanted to share because the image is so popular - it was made using my all time favourite golf image sheet from Craft Creations - it used to take me ages to work out the fiddly levels when it was four of one image on the same sheet and, although I liked the challenge, thats not so good when you're in a hurry to get it done.. so now they have step by step sheets which are easier but also less wastage!!

The wording is done on the pc using a font that I thought resembled writing with bits of 'scattered grass' and nestabilities used to cut the circles, with cuttlebug embossing - the trick is to place the image to cover the overlapped embossed areas, as the embossing folder only covers half of the white top layer of card on this A5 size, but you can work around the size things by placing ribbons and toppers strategically!