Starfish wedding card

I was recently commissioned to make a wedding card and so my thoughts immediately turned to hearts, white on white, flowers and all the usual suspects.  So I was quite taken aback when I asked "is there anything particular you would like on the card?" and the response was "Yes, a starfish"!

It all made complete sense, once I discovered that it's for a beach wedding and there was a starfish on the invitation!  However, I found it challenging to think of a way to make a starfish romantic or wedding-y, so eventually I decided to add tropical-looking flowers!

This is the result.  

So where is the starfish? !!

Sadly three of the four stamp sets that I used will be retired on 31st May, so if you like them - jump in quick to buy them before they're all sold out!  

You can click here to shop for retiring items, some of which are discounted by as much as 50%!

Back to the card!

I made the easel card from Crumb Cake cardstock.  It's not quite a square card, measuring 5" across and 6" high (when closed).  To achieve this, I cut a 12" x 5" piece of cardstock and scored the long side at 6" and 9".  I also cut a piece 6" x 5" for the front of the card.  For folding and gluing instructions, please see the foot of this post.  Line up the front of the card and adhere it to the glued panel.

I heat embossed the Corner Garden stamp in silver onto Whisper White cardstock and then watercoloured it with Crumb Cake ink.  Then I trimmed the panel to size and added a Basic Black mat 1/8" larger and adhered that to the front of the card.

I added the sentiment from the For the New Two set using Basic Black ink and watercoloured the little flowers with Crumb Cake ink.

I stamped the starfish (from Picture Perfect - the only set is continuing into the new Annual Catalogue) in Crumb Cake, fussy cut it and sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.

The shells from the By the Tide stamp set received similar treatment - I also reinforced the shading by watercolouring with Early Espresso ink.

I only glued the front two legs of the starfish into place and added a dimensional towards the centre of the creature to encourage the remaining three legs to support the easel when the card is open.... a very obliging starfish!

The sentiment inside is also from the For the New Two set.

Thank you for your visit.

'Til next time
Stephanie

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For The New Two Clear Stamp Set

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By The Tide Clear Stamp Set

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Corner Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Picture Perfect Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Versamark Pad

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Heat Tool

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Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

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Neutrals 12" X 12" Card Stock

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Whisper White A4 Card Stock

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Basic Black A4 Card Stock

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Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

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Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

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Occasions Catalogue Preview - Picture Perfect Bird

Happy New Year!!!  Welcome to my first post of 2016!

That's exciting enough in itself but it also means that we're only a few days away from Sale-a-bration and purchasing from the new Occasions Catalogue! Yay!  Remember, from 5th January to 31st March you can choose one FREE Sale-a-bration item for every $90 you spend!

A get well card suitable for a sick male!

One of our friends is spending New Year in hospital so I made this card to cheer him up a bit.

I've used the bird from the Picture Perfect stamp set (140520) in the new Occasions Catalogue.  This set represents great value with 18 photopolymer stamps in the set!  It's also very versatile since it includes a two-step star fish, a three-step flower and this four-step bird.

Yes, that's right - this is a four-step stamp!  I must admit that I was at first a little intimidated by that - but once I inked up the stamps I found it very easy to use and it gives a beautiful effect.  The possibilities are endless with colour combinations!  This one used Smoky Slate, Basic Grey and Crushed Curry inks.

I wanted the bird to be breaking free so I used the out of the box technique for die cutting, masked the bird and sponged with Smoky Slate.

I then cut a larger piece with the Lots of Labels dies and used a mask to sponge on clouds with Soft Sky and Marina Mist ink.  The last of the Lots of Labels layers was cut from Soft Sky cardstock.

The next layer is whisper white cardstock.  I embossed it with the ElegantDots embossing folder, punched the corners with the Curvy Cornere Trio Punch (139683 in the Occasions Catalogue) and sponged the edges with Smoky Slate and Basic Grey inks before adhering it to the Crushed Curry card.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments, stamped in Basic Black ink.

To give the bird a bit of lift (sorry - couldn't help myself!), I popped the Soft Sky layer up on dimensionals.

Dimensionals add a bit of lift to the bird

I added a gel pen dot to bring the eye to life

I hope you like this card - please leave a comment!

'Til next time

Stephanie

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