To The Happy Couple

Good Sunday morning! I'm off from work today, so I thought I'd get a little stampy time in before I start my day (which consists of getting stampy ;). I'm playing along with this week's Featured Stamper at Splitcoast and I've made an elegant wedding card using one of Martha's punch-around-the-page punchers. The lucky stamper this week is Pam Giudici, aka pamshobby, and I've CASEd this lovely card here. This is my take on her card:

I took these first 3 photos in a light box. It's hard to see the ruffles in the bow in this picture below:

A close up of the modified black panel:

This picure was taken in natural light:

I kept the design somewhat the same (with a little modification) and the sentiment panel punch as well. I changed the colors, stamps and added a bit more punch work. The bottom gem design is from Recollections and I made the bow using Offray's tutorial. Since I just checked the link and it's gone...basically what I did was make 3 descending circle shapes with the organdy ribbon and put a glue dot in the middle of each. I then stacked each layer on top of the other and added a Sultan gem to the middle of the top layer. The black panel underneath the sentiment was made using Stampin' Up!'s Decorative Label punch, cut in half and overlapped just a bit to shorten the width. The sentiment is from Verve's Love Story set...perfect for any type of anniversary/wedding card. And speaking of Verve...we've got a new release coming up this week, starting with a sneak peek blog hop on Wednesday and culminating with a release party on Friday night! Hope to "see" you there!

Have a super day and I'll {hopefully} be back tomorrow with a Mojo card!


Stamps: Love Story (Verve Stamps)
Paper: White
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Organdy ribbon, Decorative Label & Extra Large Modern Label punches, rhinestones (SU!), Sultan gem (Prima), Adhesive rhinestones (Recollections), Petal Heart Pattern Punch (Martha Stewart), dimensionals
Size: 5 1/2" square