Wedding Cards with Abundant Beauty

This weekend’s going to be a busy one for us! We’ve got two birthdays and a wedding to celebrate. I usually have a decent stash of birthday cards. But when it comes to weddings I try to get some inkspiration from the couple’s invitation. And as soon as I saw this one I’ve had a picture in my head of what I wanted to do! I knew I just had to make wedding cards with Abundant Beauty Decorative masks…. specifically the sunflower masks.

The invitation was full of flowers and deeper colours. So for the card base I’m using Basic Black, which was also one of the colours they used. On top of that I layered some Wild Wheat cardstock and another piece of Basic Black. The next layer is a stamped piece of Very Vanilla. I stamped the large flower from the Quiet Meadow stamp set with Crushed Curry. And a few smaller ones with Cajun Craze.

I also used these colours for my sunflowers. Starting with Crushed Curry and then adding a little Cajun Craze to the centre of my petals. Then I used Wild Wheat and Early Espresso for the centres. For the leaves I used Old Olive ink. I made a whole bunch because my mother-in-law asked if I could also make her a card to give to the couple. Thankfully it wasn’t too time consuming to fussy cut them all out!

Wedding Cards with Abundant Beauty

I switched it up a little bit for my mother-in-law’s card. The colours are the same, but I embossed a piece of Wild Wheat cardstock with the 3D Painted Texture embossing folder. I also used a sentiment from the Something Fancy stamp set which I die cut with one of the coordinating dies. The sunflowers on both cards are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. But the sentiment on my card wasn’t.

Wedding Cards with Abundant Beauty

I just love how both of these wedding cards with Abundant Beauty turned out! These decorative masks will definitely be staying in my craft stash for a while after they retire.

Check out another card I made using the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks here.

If you want to add these masks to your craft stash, don’t wait too long! These are on the list of retiring products and won’t be available after January 3rd… if they last that long. Find them and the other retiring products in my online shop.

Fall Watercolour

This week’s challenge from the Paper Craft Crew is a theme challenge (PCC 535). And it’s all about Fall. I can’t believe the first day of Fall is this Saturday already! Where has this year gone?! Anyway… the design for my card started with the idea of a Fall watercolour. Here’s the picture that sparked the inkspiration for my design…

Fall Watercolouring

Now some people might go for a pumpkin theme. But I decided to go a different route. I used Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze to create my watercolour background. Then once that was dry I stamped a couple of leaves from the Season of Chic stamp set in Early Espresso. The sentiment is also from Season of Chic and I framed that with some Early Espresso cardstock and popped it up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals.

In the bottom right hand corner I added a couple of sunflowers. These sunflowers I created using the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks and my Blending Brushes. I started with Crushed Curry and then added a little Cajun Craze to the petals. Then for the centre, I started with Wild Wheat and added Early Espresso. These were pretty easy to fussy cut and then I popped them up too.

Fall Watercolouring

I quite like my Fall watercolour background. And I just love the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks! It’s so much fun crafting with these.

Check out all the other designs for this week’s theme challenge from the Paper Craft Crew here.

And you can check out another fall themed card I made using one of the other Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks here.

Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks

The new Abundant Beauty decorative masks were one of the first things that caught my eye in the new mini catalogue! I don’t use decorative masks often, but I’m hoping the designs in this pack will change that.

For this card design I’m using one of the fall designs and some Sponge Daubers. You can use Blending Brushes with decorative masks too, but when the images are small like these ones I prefer to use daubers. I used Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie and Wild Wheat inks to create this colourful piece of cardstock.

The card base is Wild Wheat and I wrapped some Linen Thread around the sponged cardstock. On top of that I layered some leaves and a sentiment from the Season of Chic stamp set. I stamped the leaves with Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze ink and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. But for the sentiment I used Wild Wheat ink and one of the Something Fancy dies. Then I popped these all up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And to finish it off I added a few of the Brushed Metallic Dots.

Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks

I love the Abundant Beauty decorative masks! And I can’t wait to use the sunflower and snowflake masks.

The new mini catalogue launches this Wednesday September 6th! If you live in Canada and want your very own copy, contact me. I’d be happy to mail one out to you… along with a few goodies!

In the meantime, check out some more Fall crafting I did with some of the new mini catalogue products here. Or check out what’s available now in my online shop.

Happy crafting!