A card and a quilt today

     This is going to be a bit of a long post - two things to showcase - a wedding card and a wedding quilt. Our grandson is getting married this Saturday so these are for him and his fiancée.  

First the card which is 5 x 7.

                              
    They are having an outdoor wedding - hope it doesn’t rain - so I wanted the card to reflect that. This is actually the second card I made. The first one had the same embossed background but on a A2 card base (4.25 x 5.5) and it was too small for the rest of the elements. So I set it aside to finish later and used a 5x7 card base instead.

I wanted them to stand under an arbour but I don’t have any arbour dies. I found a fancy Spellbinder die that had the top that would work so it was die cut and then I had to trim out the centre part so I could add a piece of off white behind it. The little silver hearts cover up the part that was not perfect. Then the large heart, leaves and butterflies were die cut and everything was assembled and then glued down. Small white pearls were glued to the arbour where little decorative holes were and to the butterflies.

The tag was stamped and embossed in silver embossing powder. The butterfly and silver heart were added to coincide with the top ones. The bride and groom was die cut twice from white cardstock and glued together but when it was laid it on the card, it was too blah….too much white even though all the elements are different coloured white. So it was die cut once again in black and glued to the white. So much better.

    So, lots of layers on this card but they loved it so that’s good.

    They also loved the quilt I made for them as a wedding present.

      This quilt pattern is called ‘Chandelier’ and it was a free pattern I found on Pinterest. Most of the chandelier quilts use white instead of the black but the batik really looked nicer on the black. I wanted to use the batik fabric that I’ve been saving (or maybe hoarding) for years…but I wanted every main block to be different and I ran out of batik fabric and used looks-like-batik and then just bright coloured fabric.

The quilt pattern was square which I hate so I added the extra rows to make it longer. The pattern also called for black to be inserted along the edges but I wanted colour there so I made more blocks and cut them in half and added them. They loved it as well. Whew!

    So, that’s all the posts for this week. I’ll be back next week though so be sure to return.

 Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes takes a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.