A Wedding Slider!

Happy Saturday - I'm here with a wedding card today, made for Craft Roulette Episode #327 which aired live last night. I crafted along and finished during the show which I enjoy doing.

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Park Lane A2 card

Stamps w/dies - Colorado Craft Happily Ever After (retired)

Dies - AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Lawn Fawn Slide On Over

Other - Copic Markers; foam tape; white gel pen;

Robin's Egg and Key Lime inks

Host Mary Gunn had Brennan Keane (‪@bdk_creations‬) as a guest, making his 2nd appearance. Last time he was on the show, he was only 17 and still in high school. Now he has graduated and will attend college with less time for crafting. 

The roulette wheel was spun four times for our parameters; Brennan even got one of his picks!

• Project - Interactive Card: I made a slider. 
• Colors - Summer: Blue, green & pink say summer to me. 
• Element - Here Comes The Bride: I made a wedding card w/bride & groom.
• Random - Ink Edging: I edged the white background panel with blue & green inks. 

Given the bride element, I pulled out a stamp set I got at Paperganza last year - first time using it! I stamped the mouse couple, colored with Copics and die cut the image. Added some white gel pen details. Next I stamped the tree image directly onto an A2 panel of Neenah, then colored with Copics. I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle & inked the edges. Die cut the slider and reserved the cut piece. Stamped the sentiment.

Added foam tape to the back of my panel, figured out (badly) where to add the cut-out piece. Adhered the cut-out piece directly to the A2 card. Put the mouse couple in the slider and adhered the panel to the card. Given the height of the image, this probably needed two sliders - they tend to tip and spin a bit - lol. Notice anything else? I forgot to color the tree below the mice children - oh well, I fixed that this morning! 

Here's another view with the couple slid over:

Thats it for today. Since my wedding set got first play, I'll add my card to Darnell's July NBUS Challenge #88.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend!!

Embossed vellum

Hello crafty friends - hope your day is going well. I typically start the morning with breakfast at my laptop visiting my friends' blogs. Today I got busy on a card for an upcoming Die Cut Diva challenge (no hints - sorry) and forgot all about breakfast until that card was done!! 

Once in front of the laptop with my Cheerios I spotted Gail's Crafty Nomad post with inspiration for Let's Squash It !! (which is much further down the alphabetical blog list). Quickly finished breakfast and off I went. I made this simple card for August's Let's Squash It!! Challenge 11 - Not Paper, Not Card:

Supplies: Paper - Hero Arts Dove A2 card; Paper Studio black

Embossing folder - Altenew Decorative Florals 3D

Vellum - Stamp On It Irridescent Mix (sadly retired)

Other - Copic Markers (greys, golds and V05);

CZ Design Sentiment Strips Reverse Happy

Hi I'm Linda & I am a Paper Hoarder!! I have this lovely coverweight vellum purchased at a stamp expo many years ago and I use it sparingly, especially now that it's retired. Luckily I knew right where to find it in my stash - it works perfectly with embossing folders, giving a crisp image with little tearing. The piece I chose has a pale silver sheen to it - so beautiful. I embossed with the Altenew ef and added some Copics to the back. Glued to a black mat. Oops, some of my glue wasn't hidden good enough and showed through as grey. I took some grey Copics and tried shading it on top of the vellum. Looks much better in real life than in the photo (maybe I'm kidding myself...). I also applied a little more gold to the top of the vellum flower centers - done! Makes an elegant wedding card, I think.

The vellum pack contains assorted colors, including a gorgeous gold so I'm sure to be back with another card for this fun challenge. The vellum was a handy choice but I'd like to look around for some other mediums to try. How about you - what would you emboss if not paper or card?

Thanks for stopping!!

Ireland/England trip & a wedding card

Hey all - thought I'd share a few photos of the trip I took to Ireland and England in July. I spent 10 days there and returned home late on the 29th.

Sweet Adelines International held its International Education Seminar in Manchester UK from July 25-28th. I decided to attend and thought, since it's so close, I'd combine the seminar with a trip to visit my friend Heather and her family. Heather and I have been friends for 10 years and served together as Hero Arts Hostesses back in 2011. I met Heather in person in 2014 on my first trip to Ireland, then she and her family came to Orlando and I met them for a fun weekend at Disney World in 2016. For this visit we stuck close to Heather's home and made day trips to Irish Heritage sites nearby.

I arrived Friday 7/19 around 9 am. Heather and her hubby picked me up at the airport after my long flight across the pond. I don't like to sleep on the plane and with a 6 hr time change, I didn't last much past 8 pm!! But we managed to go crafty shopping and visit a castle that day. We chose Maynooth Castle which was near the shop selling crafty items. Here I am, looking a bit travel worn but ready to discover the Castle and grounds.

Off to your right you can see the arch we entered. Here's a closer look at the size of it - immense!

The inside of the castle has been turned into a museum with display boards telling the chronology of ownership of the castle and history of those owners and their allies. Very interesting! Heather couldn't resist taking a quick pic of a list of medieval cures. I certainly wouldn't want to try them!

The next morning we played with crafty items I brought from the US and stuff Heather had in her stash. I mainly used a bunch of her dies, especially a fun arch I thought would be cute for a wedding card. Here's what I came up with:

Supplies: Paper - DCWV Ms Sparkle A2 card; Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; 

Authentique and BoBunny 6x6 patterned

Dies - Arch by unk; Couple by Tattered Lace; Flourish Vine by Cottage Cutz

Other - ultra thin foam; Icy Stickles; Spun Sugar Distress Marker

A friend asked me to make her a couple wedding cards for this fall so this was my start. Thanks to Heather for letting me use the arch die (sorry, not sure of the manufacturer)!! I doubled it up for thickness and popped it with some ultra thin foam tape. Really like how this turned out.

I'll blog more of my trip when I get a chance. Can't thank Heather and her family enough for sharing their home with me!! And thanks to you for stopping by!