Stamp Muse - Featured Stamper

I am elated to honor my friend Emily, aka Stamp Muse on SCS, with a case of her gorgeous wedding card! Emily is not only talented when it comes to her craft, but she is also very kind and generous. A little while ago, Emily sent to me some samples of the beautiful currency paper she uses in some of her designs (thanks, again, Miss M!). Therefore, I wanted to use a piece of it in my case of her card. As you can see, Emily did a stunning job creating her monochromatic wedding card in white. I chose to use silver so I could use the piece of silver currency paper that Emily had already embossed for me with the Cuttlebug textile embossing folder. I think monochromatic cards are some of the most difficult ones to make look beautiful, but Emily makes it look easy!



It's kind of hard to tell in this photo, but I embossed my God's Beauty butterfly with iridescent ice embossing powder onto the retired SU brushed silver cardstock, added the string of pearls to its body, glued the decorative pearls behind it, and adhered it with a large pop-up glue dot. I tied my gray tafetta ribbon (SU's retired basic gray) with a Bow Easy, adhered a couple of tiny pearls to the bow, and added some silver elastic cording to my ribbon treatment. Other tools I used are the MS lace border punch, the Marvy scalloped corner punch, and the floral and script Cuttlebug embossing folders.

Happy stamping!

The Happy Couple

Francie G., of our Doubledog Dare group, challenged us to make a wedding card this week. I'll admit that I've not made many wedding cards since I started stamping, but this challenge came at just the right time since a co-worker asked me to make a wedding card for her to give to her niece and nephew-to-be.

I found this Happy Couple image by Stampendous at my local Hobby Lobby. I colored the images with Copic markers, except for her bridal gown. I only added dazzling diamonds on her veil, her bodice, and hemline.

On the inside of the card, I used the same designer paper, but I cut out only a frame of it and applied it over the flourishes I stamped. I also added River Rock punched hearts. The Mr. & Mrs. sentiment are computer generated.

Stamps: Happy Couple (Stampendous); Baroque Motifs (flourish on inside of card)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cryogen Sparkle White, River Rock, dp
Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black
Accessories: Copic markers, oval Nestability, paper piercer, ivory satin ribbon, pearls, word window punch, heart punch


I also wanted to share a photograph my husband took this morning of these two fire flies on our dining room window. He said, "Awww! They're spooning!" Yeah, right, hon. I'm sure that's what they're doing. Or was it me who said they were spooning and he said, yeah right. LOL! Everyone is a legend in their own mind!!



Isn't my hubby a good photographer? I think this is such a cool photo!