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.

Handmade Wedding Card for a Same Sex Couple

Even with the card industry being as big as it is, there are still some cards that are difficult to find. That’s why I was asked to make a handmade wedding card for a same sex couple. I was so excited to make this card for them. When I make custom cards I like to dig in my retired craft stash. Some stamp sets I haven’t been able to replace yet. And I’m sure that’ll always be the case for some of my retired stamp sets, lol!

For this card I wanted to make something simple but elegant. So I dug into my metallics. The Brushed Metallics cardstock worked great for this. I used some in the background as a kind of card mat. And I also used it for the words and foliage. The words were easy to make with the Playful Alphabet dies that are sadly retiring. (I’ll be holding on to mine thought!) And the stems came from the Meadows dies.

Behind that I added a piece of Basic White cardstock that I embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder. But not before I stamped some paint splatter from the Quiet Meadow stamp set in Crumb Cake. I also added some retired gold thread behind the foliage and “congratulations”. The “congratulations” came from a long retired stamp set.

HAndmade Same Sex Wedding Card

I love how this card turned out! And so did the people that requested it!

If you need a handmade wedding card for a same sex couple or any occasion, I’d be happy to make one for you! Check out more on my Cards & Consultation page here. Or email me at inkspirationwithteresa@gmail.com.

And if you want to see what else is retiring before it’s all gone, head over to my online shop!