Creative Cucina

The past few days have been extremely hot here–like 89 degrees HOT. I have no idea what happened to Spring but hopefully it comes back sooner rather than later. Maybe having Spring on the brain inspired this card.

I haven’t used this navy polka dotted vellum yet from Taste of Textiles until today. I layered it onto a piece of Bashful Blue card stock, with small glue dots in each corner. I slipped some Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin ribbon around the vellum layer and tied a not on the right hand side of the card. A little tip: I applied some snail just under the ribbon in a few spots to keep it flat against the vellum.

The flower is from the Pretties Kit, which I embellished by adding a Kiwi Kiss Corduroy Brad in the center. I adhered that to the base using a large glue dot. On the bottom, I stamped the “You’re Invited” sentiment from Warm Wishes in Kiwi Kiss ink on Whisper White, cut it out and adhered it to the vellum.

I’m not sure these colors will work for my friend’s shower, but it was a pretty card nonetheless and I’m going to share it with her anyway.

This is a card I’m going to give my friend at her bridal shower (not the friend I’m making the invitations for). It’s similar to the one I made here except on steroids! It matches the gift bag I’m using for my friend’s gift almost perfectly.

Inside, the greeting is from Congrats and says “congratulations” and “on joining the wedded bliss club”. The card base is a piece of Pretty in Pink card stock, layered with Textured Chocolate Chip. The polka dots were made with my 1/2″ and 3/4″ Circle Punches from Pixie Pink and Pretty in Pink card stock. The bride from For the Bride was stamped in Pixie Pink ink on Whisper White and layered onto a piece of Pixie Pink to match. I popped the image layer up with dimensionals as well.

The “For the Bride” was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink at the bottom to finish it off.

This is my attempt at “country” or a little more of a rustic bridal shower invitation–which is a big stretch for me because I never really do that style. For the Bride is an elegant set, but when you mix it with textured kraft and hemp twine, keeping the colors pretty and soft, you can get a totally different look.

Here, I used Pink Pirouette as a card base. Then, I took a strip of the Striped Kraft from Taste of Textiles and layered it on a slightly larger piece of Close to Cocoa card stock. The hemp twine was wrapped around the Kraft/Cocoa layer twice and knotted.

Again, the image is from For the Bride, stamped in Creamy Caramel ink on Whisper White card stock. I layered it on a piece of Close to Cocoa and adhered it to the base using dimensionals.

The sentiment was a stamp I found in the $1 bin at Michael’s and I stamped it in Close to Cocoa onto the card base.