To Love and Cherish

 Hello Everyone!  If you have been following our blog the last few weeks, you will see a theme - cards made with the Bridge card pattern!  They are so easy and clever and Creative Impressions has lots of perfect stamps for this technique!  Here is a wedding card I recently created:

Following the Bridge Card pattern, I cut two pieces of #80342 To Love and Cherish Ribbon Expressions and adhered them to two strips of scrap green cardstock.  Before adhering to the pattern paper on each side of the card, I adhered a Yellow Heart Brad #90394 to both strips, one at the bottom and one at the top.    Then the strips were adhered to the side pieces of the card.

I added a piece of the patterned paper to the back of the card and added the sentiment from the CI Stamp set, # YCC221 Wedding Carriage Silhouette stamped in Navy Blue, inked around the edges and adhered to a slight larger green mat before adhering to the card back.

Now I stamped the horse and carriage from the same stamp set onto a piece of scrap white cardstock.  I inked the carriage with Navy Blue and the horse with Brown ink and stamped.  The entire piece was cut out and adhered to the card front, to which was previously adhered a piece of patterned paper.

That's it!  I think this card is so cute!  It reminds me of my own wedding many years ago when my husband and I had a horse and carriage take  us to our reception!

Give this card technique a try!

I will be taking a week off from blogging, but I'll be back with some new and fun cards!

Enjoy!

Susan

Candy Hearts and Flowers for you!

 Hello Everyone:

Happy almost Valentine's Day from Creative Impressions!  We have a darling card created by Chari Hogsett for you today!

I thought this card was so creative!  Chari began by adhering a slightly smaller black mat to a white card.  She then created two flowers by layering a large White Felt Blossom (Pastel 62201) with a Large White Sheer Blossom and holding the two blossoms together with a Metallic Red Country Heart (90331).  For the second flower, Chari did the same thing, except she substituted a  large sheer Magenta Sheer Blossom (60700).  These blossoms were then adhered to the right side of the black mat.

The "Love Candies" from Creative Impressions Stamp Set M124 Love Candies were stamped in red onto a pink design paper strip and the strip was then adhered to the left side of the black mat.  That's it!  Super easy and a darling card.

Thank you, Chari, for sharing your sweet card with us!

Enjoy!

Susan

A Heart Pocket for you!

Hello Everyone!  I found this darling heart pocket pattern awhile ago and decided to pull it out and make this fun Valentine's Card for you!

The pattern is so easy.  It is basically four scallops together with two of them folded up to create the pocket. Once it was folded, I black embossed "Happy Valentine's Day #Y546 Be Mine Sentiments                    to the back of the heart.

To finish the pocket, I created a flower  using our Iridescent and Transparent Blossom in White #61201, Medium Felt Blossom in Black #62220 and Small Felt Blossom in White # 62001 Pastel,                                                                       adhering all together with a Medium Heart Brad # 90313.  I poked a hole in the center of the pocket and spread out the brad prongs in the back.

Next step was to create a tag to go in the pocket.  I cut a small tag and rounded the top to mimic the top of the heart.  I stamped the cupid from the same stamp set "Be Mine Sentiments"(such a versatile set) in black onto the tag and then stamped "Be Mine" from the same set.  I inked the tag edges with red ink all the way around and punched a hole in the top of the tag.  I used our 1/4" Single Stitch Ribbon in Pink with Red Stitching #70913 at the top of the tag and wrapped our Black Thin Twine #80605 around the ribbon, creating a bow at the same time.

Here again is the finished card once the tag is placed inside:

You still have time to create some Valentines with Creative Impressions stamps!

Enjoy!

Susan