My mother-in-law had a big birthday recently – for politeness, I won’t say which big number 🙂 We had a simply special celebration at a restaurant with family and friends – it was a wonderful night – and this is the invite I made to send out to everyone.
I fell in love with this card here and it inspired me to make the invitations. It also inspired me to make another card, which I’ll post shortly.
To make this card, I used the colours Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Blushing Bride, Early Espresso and Certainly Celery. I popped the Blushing Bride background through the Big Shot with my Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, then I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake. I used the Scallop Trim border punch with a strip of Crumb Cake cardstock to layer along the bottom of my stamped image, together with a strip of Certainly Celery striped DSP (from the Subtles DSP Paper Stacks).
I then used the retired Sale-a-bration Bliss stamp set to stamp in Crumb Cake around the edge of my Very Vanilla cardstock (and sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink). I tore the top right corner and sponged the tear in Crumb Cake ink. Then I stuck a snippet of Newsprint DSP under the corner.
Using Silhouette Sentiments and my Certainly Celery and Blushing Bride marker pens, I used marker-to-rubber and stamped the flowers in a row. The bird was then stamped in Early Espresso ink.
For the sentiment, I punched some Certainly Celery cardstock with the Decorative Label punch. Then I stamped with Bliss in “stamped off” Crumb Cake ink and added a flower from Silhouette Sentiments using my marker pens. The “You’re Invited” is from a great favourite stamp set of mine – Sincere Salutations – and is stamped in Early Espresso ink. Again, I sponged the edges of the punched out Extra-Large Oval in Crumb Cake ink.
Thanks for looking 🙂