1.0 Sarah's Stamping Style: Enjoy the ride...

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Enjoy the ride...

A friend had asked me to make a wedding card for a young, modern couple. I always find it hard to get inspiration when making wedding and christening cards. It takes me a while to get an idea and to get on a roll. I don't have any wedding/christening type stamp sets, but this had to be an nontraditional card anyway, so I looked for inspiration in the stamps I own.


I had a lightening bolt moment one morning when the perfect idea struck me for this young modern couple. I decided to use the set 'Pedal Presents', teamed with a computer generated sentiment to complete my card. This was the first inking for this set. I loved this set straight away, but have not had a chance to play with it until now. I think that this set will get a lot of use, especially when making cards for hubby and my FIL as they are both keen cyclists. I may just have to ink the stamp without the basket for the boys!



I used an old favourite colour combo of Pretty in Pink, Pool Party and Whisper White.  I used the bike image and added the hearts to the basket, which I glittered. I also added some punched pink hearts (using the Owl Punch), which I also glittered and placed on the card as if they were flying out of the bike basket as it moved along.


I generated the sentiment on the computer and placed it onto a sentiment flag, which I added to a seam binding bow, finished with a pink Rhinestone Brad.


On the inside I finished off the sentiment and added a portion of the bicycle image. I also added two more glittered hearts to symbolise the Bride and the Groom.


In the end I was very happy with my card. It had a clean, young and modern look, and my friend was also very happy with the result!


I am going to enter this card into a new challenge that I stumbled upon called CASology.  The aim is to make a Clean and Simple card, using the cue word for the week as inspiration. This week the cue word is 'happy'. What better way to interpret happy than with a wedding card. One of the happiest days of your life!


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S xx

8 comments:

  1. Sarah this is super fabulously CUTE. Well done!

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  2. What a fantastic wedding card! I'm so happy that you've played along with CASology this week!

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  3. Oh that bicycle with a basket full of hearts is so sweet. Thank you so much for joining us at CASology this week!

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  4. This is 'out of the box' and very creative. Love your 'take' on making a wedding card.

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  5. This is sooo sweet ~ lovel your card!

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  6. Darling card Sarah! Love the bicycle image, the pretty pink hearst... the ribbon treatement looks great!

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  7. Sweet card Sarah. Love the clean layout & the sprinkling of sparkly hearts. :)

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