Blissful Bride

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! And here it is January and thoughts of "Spring" in the air. My thoughts of course is in the direction of my son wedding, which is in June, and God knows it comes quick. My future Daughter-in-law to be, is so excited that all she's thinking of lately is "I DO" Day. Which is good, so I had her thinking about her Bridal Shower, and a card of her choice. She actually picked one that I really didn't think she would like, and not in her colors of Kelly Green and Daffodil Delight Yellow. Pink and white was her choice so I decided to run with it. The stamp set came from the "SUMMER MINI" Catalog, since I had it, I haven't done anything with it, so off I go... MATERIALS USED: Blissful Bride stamp set- #120036, BigShot- #113439, Brayer- #102395, MARKERS: Melon Mambo- #121074, Daffodil Delight- #119677, Pretty in Pink- #100045, Certainly Celery- #105106. CARDSTOCK: Whisper White- #100730, Pink Passion- Retired. Acrylic Blocks- block D #118485, block E #118484. Dazzling Diamond Glitter- #102023. INK: Pretty in Pink- #126955, Chocolate Chip- #126979, Stazon Black- #101406, Dauber Sponge-#102892. Fancy Embossing Folder- ANYONE OF YOUR CHOICE. New "Stampin" Trimmer- #126889.

Cut 8 1/2x 11 Cardstock of Pink Passion into half.(Remember 1 sheet of paper will make 2 cards)

Cut FULL sheet of cardstock into QUARTERS ( Best way for this is to fold in half and fold again in half, cut at creases).

Use Embossing folder on card front and the 1/4 sections of whisper white. Next is to lightly highlight the embossed pattern. Now when you do this there CANNOT be ANY PRESSURE on the BRAYER. So when I say LIGHTLY it is LIGHTLY. Make some practice trials, before tackling this.

Take the embossed tinted quarter piece, fold in half and cut. Glue this piece to the cardfront Pink Passion.

All of this is done now and let's do the stamping surface. You will have to cut more whisper white cardstock, cut into QUARTERS(1/4).Cut off 1" on (1)long and (1)short side. Measurements? 3 1/4"x4 1/2" I'm really bad at measurements sometimes. This is your stamping surface.

Stamp dress and flowers on cardstock just trimmed down.

Go around edges with Dauber of Chocolate Chip ink. Also Glitter Flowers and the Ribbon on the dress.

Now I'm making this card for a Bridal Shower Invite, I will do a R.S.V.P for the inside. And since I had so many Pink Passion Cardstock already decked out, I did take 5 of those cards and did "For the Bride & Groom" Card, and that could also be a "Anniversary" card,a Beautiful Prom Card,something along that area. I did Daffodril Delight color flowers with black centers on the flowers.

Inside to this card.

Labels on the cards are made with the following PUNCHES: Decorative Label- #120907 Modern Label- #119849, Word Window- #119857, I don't have anything on the other punch. It did come from a Label Set a few years back.

The labels for front of cards. Stamp,Punch, glue, punch then glue again.

And the finish Product..

And I didn't forget about the Envelopes. Jumbo Wheel- Wedding Words#125433, and the Wheel Handle#103661, I had the Ink cartridge for a while, but can buy them. Jumbo cartridge#103678 or the standard#101529

This isn't too bad to make if you had to make alot of them. The coloring of the flowers- Believe it or not, a messy Look, looks COOL...

Engagement Cards

Hello my fellow Crafters, after a long break from Pickled Creations, I'm back! I've made some bad choices and the lose of a job, I've needed something positive and something to look forward too, I did some soul searching, and realized that I didn't need to search at all. All this time it has been right in front of me. To do and to give somebody something that you have created and to see a smile come to their faces or to make them feel special, gives me that great accomplishment that I did do good in this world, plus that feeling "warm and fuzzy inside"!

With a wedding coming up in 2013, it took me a little bit to come up with these cards (feeling that I was out of practice). My future daughter-in-law liked the cards with matching envelopes. Her colors are  Kelly Green and Yellow. These cards are made with Certainly Celery and Daffodil Delight. So my next cards that are the wedding invites will for sure be their colors. Sorry I didn't provide a tutorial with these cards, but I do promise I will for the Wedding Invites.

*Feeling alittle Halloween *

Hi Fellow Crafters. It's been awhile since I've been here, and alot has happened since then. I became another grandma. My Daughter Sarah had a little boy named Jayden Paul Thomas. Beautiful little guy that makes number 8 grandchild.
I thought I start back in the groove with a Halloween card. The stamp sets I used were SCAREDY CAT- #122555, DARK & DREARY- #120837, MIDNIGHT MUSING- #120863 (jumbo). Other supplies I used were: BASIC BLACK INK #101179, PEAR PIZZAZZ- #119795, PUMPKIN PIE- #105117, WHISPER WHITE-#100739, DESIGNER SERIES PAPER- FRIGHTFUL SIGHT- #122351, PUNCH- #119850, DICOUNTED BRADS and HOUSEHOLD SCREENING.


Fold cardstock in half to form your card.




Next is to take your orange paper and cut into 1/4s. Your should have 4 card size pieces.

Next take your orange pieces and rip from corner downwards with about 1"rip all the way down.

Will look like this.

Stamp out card front and repeat ripping but only rip to fit into orange piece. 

Going to accent front with this Designer paper.

Discounted brads were bought at Micheal's

Stamp out Raven.

Now it's time assemble card.

Fit as you go.

Punched out circles for Raven.

Rip Raven in shapely figure and glue to circles.

To give it a different look I used Screening(window) to highlight my designer paper.

Fit window screening on designer paper.Cut to desired lenght.

Punch holes for brads. And again punch at desired spot.

I added the spider to corner.

Now glue and assemble your card.

Used glue dots for Raven.

At the last minute, I decided to add glitter to my Raven.

Last but not least. Decorate envelopes.

For the inside. Here is all of my leftover whisper white cardstock. I will stamp out BOO.

After stamped out, place on your designer paper. Now all of this will be ripped out. No cutting.

Glue your inside to card. This is actually easier to rip then you think. Plus ripping will give your Halloween Card some character.