Congratulations Wedding Shaker/Easel Card

Hello Sassy People!

June is filled with weddings and graduations! With that said, I am excited to share today's project with you!

My mom asked me to make a wedding card for her bosses’ daughter. Talk about pressure! I wanted to make a “pretty” card, something the couple can cherish, but also something interactive. Hmmmm what to do? I had a lot of designs in my head but none of the felt right. Plus I did not have a color scheme to go with. I went with white with silver accents. 

Shaker cards are all the rave right now! What else are we going to do with all of those sequins? I also wanted to play with my new Anna Griffin Minc (a review is coming soon). I decided to do a shaker easel card. It is something interactive but can sit nicely on the mantel. 

For this A2 sized card, I used the Cricut and Design Space. While the heart, rings and “congratulations” were cutting on the machine using the ink toner sheet included with the Minc, I embossed the mat with a Cuttlebug folder and cut out a circle frame. I used one of the backgrounds which also came in the Minc bundle. This was the first time I used it. Again, a review is coming! Anywho, all of the elements were cut out and I assembled the card. The Anna Griffin background adds the silver foil element I wanted and it is also the backing for the sequins (iridescent and silver) in the shaker portion of the card. I also foiled the sentiment and the rings. The heart is mounted on recycled packaging I had. I threaded the rings with the shear ribbon and added faux pearls to the heart. 

In the inside, I stamped a wedding poem. To help the easel stay propped up,  I stamped a ring and popped it up with a pop dot. That’s it!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project! Remember to stay sassy! Thanks for stopping by, Kenya~

Supplies:

Paper Trey Ink- White Cardstock

American Craft (Anna Griffin) Foil-Silver

Shear Ribbon

Viva Decor Pen-White

Paper Studio-Sequins (Silver & Iridescent)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Hearts

Stamps- Cloud 9-Wedding Simple Thoughts Stamp & K I Memories Just Married #2130

Momento Black Ink

Tools/Dies:

Cricut Explore

Cricut Design Space-Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art, Life’s A Party, & Wedding

Anna Griffin Minc

Spellbinders-Classic Circle Dies

Fiskars Fuse

Autumn Is Busy

Howdy!  Adrienne here from Eagle Canyon Arts.  Thanks to Sheila for having me as a guest designer this month.

We had the pleasure of attending a family wedding recently.  Since it was fairly close to home, we made a road trip of it and had a great time.  The card I made for the bride and groom (my husband's brother) used these supplies: 

CTMH -
Free To Be Me Papers (Promotional, retired) 
Daisy White Paper(1385) 
Sparkles Flourishes (Z1812) 
Opaques Pearls (retired) 
Art Philosophy Cartridge (Z1686) 
Stamp - "The Happy Couple" (D1539) 
Inks - Sorbet (Z2164), Lagoon (Z2195), Hollyhock (Z2128) 
Liquid Glass (Z679)

Non-CTMH Supplies -  Copic Markers Y38, YR18, YR02 
Adhesives of choice (I love my ATG tape runner!)
 

Inside of card

The flowers came together quite nicely on the Cricut cartridge - I have found using an old hemostat from my working days is great for hanging on to that bitty internal edge and winding that flower until it is nice and "set".  The CTMH Liquid Glass works very well to hold the flowers in place once they have been formed, needing only a minute or two for setting them on the bases.

Lucia and Brian

The wedding was lovely.  The bride and groom are a terrific couple and we know they will be happy.

Adrienne and David

The next day we all went to Niagara Falls together and had a marvelous time. Thanks for following along on this project.  Contact me with any questions or comments.

 I Corinthians 13:13