Commissioned wedding card

A friend commissioned me to make a wedding day card in the same style and colours as the invitation - and, fortunately, I managed to find the same font as well.

As the card features a bride and groom silhouette, I'm linking for 365 cards day 119: 'seeing a silhouette'.

Keep it to yourself: wedding card

'Keep it to yourself: wedding card' was the theme for day 116 on 365 cards: 'The message should be clear without an actual sentiment.'

This is my very simple card for the challenge:

Wheelie good fun

The theme for the ATC swap this month on CBC is 'male'.

I used a PM stamp and K & Co Rough and Tumble paper. Wording was printed and embossed:

I notice that challenge 66 on Cute Card Thursday this week is 'wheely good fun' - snap! (except I've spelled it differently)

Simply stamped

The challenge on 365 cards for day 117 was 'simply stamped' - 'One stamped image and one stamped sentiment - that's it. You can color in the image and use any color of card stock - no patterned paper and no other embellishments!'

Yes, this was a challenge. I decided to make a very simple sympathy card (it's a sad fact of life that I always need to stock up with these because every time I have a Tearfund sale I sell out).

I've used a Magenta stamp on white linen card, with versafine onyx black clear embossed. The colouring is just an ordinary colouring pencil - no copics today.

Artarazzi challenge 28

No actual crafting to show, but just thought I'd play around with the Artarazzi challenge. This is the picture provided:



and here is my take on it, incorporating a picture of a single green bloom that I took a while ago:

Salt: Fruit of the Spirit

It was Melita's turn to choose the topic for today's Salt challenge - you can read what she says here.

I've chosen to focus on 'joy'. You might think it's an odd choice, given the present circumstances - John in hospital following weeks of being poorly and this morning I've had to go to the GP and for xray for suspected new vertebrae fracture - but I feel it is an apt choice, because no matter what the circumstances the Holy Spirit enables us to have a joy that isn't based upon how we feel - and I'm so thankful for that.

My LO is based on Nehemiah 8:10, which ends with 'for the joy of the LORD is your strength.'

The paper is My Mind's Eye Bella Bella Paradise, which needed nothing much added to it (which is just as well because I did this earlier this morning before going to see the doctor) - just the addition of the K & Co letters and a Wizard die cut black butterfly.

If you click on the picture to enlarge you will be able to read what I've written.

Commissioned card and ...

... a bit of an explanation. John is back in hospital, so things are quite topsy turvy here (again!) Because my main laptop died on Friday, I now don't have my list of challenge sites and am out of touch - and atm I wouldn't be able to do much anyway.

I needed to make a commissioned card for a diamond wedding - it's an A4 size so that lots of people can sign it.

The background is a textured pearlised card that I coloured with chalk ink pads because I needed it to match. The coloured diamond paper is K & Co Brenda Walton small wonders (girl) - yes, I know papers from this pad are usually used for baby or 'girlie' cards, but it seemed an appropriate pattern for a diamond wedding card. The sentiment was printed on a matching piece of green paper, which I think is Brenda Pinnick. The swirly hearts were cut on the cricut and the flowers top and bottom were off a strip I bought ages ago at John Lewis - they are embroided on an organza type of material.

This photo doesn't do it justice:



Neither does the scan (the middle part is too raised up so it's causing shadow:

Turquoise and chocolate

This is a very late entry for Rosiedee challenge 39.

The idea is to use turquoise and chocolate (a yummy combo) and I decided to use Kathy's latest sketch 12 'give it a swirl':



I don't feel I've done justice to this challenge - crafting seems to be an effort atm. I can't remember what the background paper is (I'll come back and amend if I remember), but it's one I love. The chipboard hearts and 'friend' are some that I've had for a long time (they came free with a mag) - they were a turquoise and peach colour, so I went over them with chestnut roon chalk ink to make them more chocolatey and I was glad that I had some turquoise wire (surprised that I had) to use for the swirls. The sentiment says: 'The road to the house of a friend is never long' Danish Proverb. Then hugging bears, of course, are Forever Friends (they just seemed appropriate here).

The card looks a bit dull on here, but you get the general idea. As usual, you can get a better view if you click on the picture to enlarge.