Wedding season is upon us. I made a card (on order) for a couple who got married yesterday. I usually have pretty free reign when I receive orders, which I love. People tend to tell me what color scheme they’d like, names, dates and other important stuff that they want included. A bit of a warning might be necessary right here; this is a very picture heavy post! 🙂
I made an easel card. The problem was that my flower arrangement made the card way too chunky to fit in an envelope, resulting in me making a nice box to put the card in. I’ve used Bazzill Maraschino, Natural and plenty of papers from Pion Design’s “From My Heart II” collection for this set, I like it when all the little details match!
To make this flower arrangement I used a Spellbinders die to make a heart shape that I glued the flowers onto. I’ve airbrushed some of the flowers with E19 to make them match the patterned papers. The banner is cut from one of the Pion papers, and I have written “Til brudeparet” with a Distress Marker (Fired Brick). The little birds are wood veneers by Prima that I’ve painted with a white dabber.
I bought a pack of Studio Calico wood veneers at the Geiranger luxury crop in the middle of April, and I figured that using one of the typewriters would be a perfect way to add the actual wedding date in print on my project. The typewriter I’ve also painted with a white dabber, the paper is just plain old copy paper with the date printed in E19, which happens to be the same color as the airbrushed flowers. Nothing is ever random with my projects 😉
Open the lid of the box and this is what you’ll see: I’ve decorated the inside of the lid as well, and the inside of the box itself, where the card resides.
I find easel cards more decorative than normal ones, they go well on a gift table and stand up on their own without any additional help.
I chose Mo Manning’s Bride and Groom image for the front of my easel. I love this image, I’ve used it several times in the past for wedding cards and it’s so easy to color! I’ve used my Copics for this one, the colors are at the bottom of the post.
I normally add plenty of flowers to my cards, this one is no exception. These ones are from Kort & Godt, Wild Orchid Crafts and Papirdesign. Some of them have been airbrushed with the same color I used for the flowers on the lid of the box. I’ve also added some pearl stamens by Kort & Godt and a couple of pearls in the center of two of my flowers.
The whole set together. I like that the same elements are repeated from the box to the card (doble matting, the flowers, color and design paper).
The “stopper panel”, as I like to call it. I’ve added stickles star dust and crackle accents to the butterfly (I added crackle accents to the butterfly on the inside of the lid as well). The stamp I’ve used is by Kort & Godt, inked with Memento Rich Cocoa.
The postage stamp images I’ve used are from the Cut Out sheet in the paper collection. I stamped a circular stamp (which is the same as the circle in the stamp on the stopper panel) on top of them in Memento Rich Cocoa, before I added the little strip with the names of the bride and groom, printed in the color E19 (I told you nothing is random with my cards). 🙂
I do, however, have one little bone to pick with easel cards: there’s no room for a personal greeting. In the above photo, there’s a little hint of a pocket for a tag on the inside of the card.
A tag pocket fixes my “no room for greeting” issue. I’ve tried to utilize the beautiful design papers to the fullest, only adding another Kort & Godt sentiment to the pocket. The button on the tag is by Melissa Frances. I have a jar full of beautiful white MF buttons, and in my opinion this one fits the card perfectly – it’s not completely white, and the colors of the print on the actual button are the same reds and greens as the design papers, it was just meant to be.
No card of mine is complete without all the sides fully decorated. On this side, which is the bottom of the card, I’ve only added two stamps to the patterned paper, the two birds on the branch are by Kort & Godt, whereas the text (Happiness is to love and be loved) is by Stempelglede.
And somehow, I’m still not completely done. This is the inside of the box that reveals itself when you take the card out. The text is another stamp by Stempelglede. The butterflies I’ve cut from the “Borders” sheet amongst the design papers. I added a thick coat of crackle accents to the butterflies before gluing them to the patterned paper in the box.
We’re getting close to the finish line now, I promise! 😉 I’ve done something different for the bottom of the box. Besides adding four Kort & Godt pearls for legs, I’ve rubbed goosebumps all over. I actually did that to cover up the fact that I’d managed to place the entire box in a puddle of glossy accents just as I was adding the pearls in the flower centers as the final touch to the lid. I couldn’t believe what I’d done (I’m usually pretty careful not to mess up things that are already finished), but the stain from the glossy accents was positioned in a way that made it impossible to cover up. I had nothing left of the patterned paper, so I couldn’t start over with the bottom of the box either, and this red paper was the only one I thought fit. The final step was a couple of sprays of Perfect Pearls mist. Underneath all this mist and the goosebumps spray (which won’t spray btw, how annoying!) I stamped a Kort & Godt text (and then they lived happily ever after) on a heart I cut out from the Pion Design Tags sheet. I added crackle accents to the butterfly on the heart, but that was waaaaay before I managed to place the box in the glossy accents puddle (also annoying!). It looked more dimensional and glossy before than it does now that it’s covered in a layer of goosebumps. Oh well… The word bliss is another Studio Calico wood veneer painted white with a dabber, at least I didn’t screw that up!! 🙂 I know I’m just being hard on myself, and that the bottom of the box doesn’t matter all that much, but I’m allowed to wish it hadn’t landed in that puddle, right? I’m happy with the overall result though, and I can just keep telling myself that the bottom of the box is the least important part!! 🙂
Last, but not least; the Copics I’ve used to color the beautiful Mo Manning image.
Challenges I would like to enter with this set:
Hjerteboden – Challenge #5: Wedding
* Bearly Mine Challenges – Challenge #84: Anything Goes
* Crafts and Me – Challenge #131: Floral Frenzy
* Die Cuttin’ Divas – Challenge #113: Anything Goes
Forever Friends – Challenge #17: Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy – Challenge #88: Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner – Anything Goes
* Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
* Party Time Tuesdays – Challenge #118: Anything Goes
* The Cutie Pie – Challenge #43: Lots of Layers
* The Sisterhood of Crafters – Free for all
Twisted Tuesday – Free for all















Dette er da min variant. Maja Design og Mo Manning i skjønn harmoni, med litt Stempelglede og Tim Holtz innimellom. Oppskriften til Hanne sier at man trenger 38 fyrstikkesker. Hvordan hun har klart å bruke så få skjønner ikke jeg, for jeg har 44 på min (selv om jeg riktignok har fjernet 6 hylser). Det går fryktelig masse bazzill til et sånt hus, jeg har vel brukt over en halv pakke på dette bare med kraft. I tillegg har jeg brukt litt Splash (lys blå – brukt på tallene og panelene inni lukene), Twilight Medium (mørkere blå – brukt bak mønsterarket på utsiden av lukene) og Bitter Chocolate (brukt på taket). 3 like mønsterark fra Maja Design, denne gangen gikk det utover “Snön faller”-arket fra Vintage Winter-kolleksjonen. Lyst ark med blå snøflak og litt brunt innimellom, elsker det!!
Motivene Ragged Angel og Shall I Play for You pryder den ene gavlveggen. De er printet ut i liten størrelse (de er 3″ høye) og var sånn sett en liten utfordring å fargelegge, det er smått!! Men de måtte være så små for ikke å stange i lukene.
Den ene sideveggen med seks vanlige luker, i tillegg til lille julaften, som er hele takflaten og da også halve innsiden av huset. Håndtakene på lukene er Tim Holtz sine hitch fasteners, digger disse små knottene. Lukene holdes igjen ved hjelp av små magneter fra Basic Grey. Disse har i utgangspunket lim på den ene siden, men det limet var ikke sterkt nok til dette bruket, så det har jeg pellet av og erstattet med glossy accents, da sitter det ordentlig!!
Den andre gavlen har fått et lite sangkor som pynt. Mo Mannings motiver er så søte, og Carolers Three er intet unntak.
Den andre sideveggen med 6 vanlige luker og julaften-luke, som består av pipe som kan åpnes, i tillegg til at luken også inneholder den andre halvdelen av innsiden av huset som den deler med lille julaften med en skillevegg.
Da jeg var liten syns jeg alltid det var like koselig på slutten av hver episode av Jul i Skomakergata, da skomaker Andersen dro ut en nellikspiker av appelsinen og fortalte oss hvor mange dager det var igjen til jul, så jeg har laget min egen variant. For hver luke man åpner er det en nedtelling til jul når man har fjernet godteriet som ligger foran. Teksten er skrevet med Distress Marker Weathered Wood på baksiden av Splash-bazzill.
Lille julaften er den ene takflaten og halve innsiden av huset. Tallene på lukene er stanset ut med en Sizzlitz-die (Typeset-alfabetet til Tim Holtz) i fargen Splash. Snøflakene på taket er stemplet med vannmerkeputen til Versamark, og så embosset med Inkidos “Frost” embossingpulver. Det er et herlig, finkornet pulver med masse glitter.
Innsiden har også de samme snøflakstemplene fra Stempelglede, men her er de embosset med klart embossingpulver. Tekststempelet kommer fra Poppydesign. “Jag stannar inne”-arket fra Maja Design skjuler de tre små magnetene i taket som gjør at det holder seg nede når det skal være lukket, mens kraftkartongen skjuler de andre halvdelene av magnetene. Jo mer av magneter som kan skjules, jo bedre!
Luken til julaften består av pipen og den andre halvdelen av innsiden av huset. Snøflakene er stanset ut med en MS-punch.
Innsiden til julaften har også fått et Poppydesign-stempel, syns teksten på dette er så herlig!! Det ble litt skjevt stemplet på, men så var det dette med “embrace imperfection” da!!
Mo Mannings Ragged Angel og fargene jeg har brukt for å fargelegge motivet.
Shall I Play for You er også farget med Copics, stort sett de samme fargene som på Ragged Angel, men noen forskjeller er det.
Til slutt: Carolers Three med Copicsene som hører til.






































