Together Forever

An old friend just recently got married and I wanted to send her
a very special birthday card.
A few days ago I ran across a YouTube video by Amazing Paper Grace
on using a wide border punch, like the Martha Stewart Trellis Punch
here to make a framework for your card.
I had to try it!  It worked so well, thank you Becca!

I used a Webster's Pages 6x6 Paper for the photo behind the frame
Highlighting the peacock's tail with Stickles
The flower and Love are also Websters

I popped the whole framework up on pop strips to pull it away
from the cardstock and added pearls to the corners and
along the flower centers

The beautiful flower ribbon is more of that 90% off closeout
I got from my LSS (it ended up costing $1.19 for 10 yards!)
The lace behind it was in a RAK

Sentiments are from My Cute Stamps

To finish I lightly sprayed the inside and out with Iridescence Shimmer
from Glimmer Mists

Supplies:

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Mini Squares

I used a 1 inch ruffled square punch and punched out a multitude of  squares
Inking each square around the edges

On a mat of white paper 5x6" I drew a faint pencil line diagonally from corner to corner
Working from the middle I started placing my squares along this line
Moving from row to row until the entire surface was covered, leaving a small space
between each square showing the mat below
I trimmed the square to 4 x 51/4" and placed it on my card front

Next I punched out a Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly,
Inked the edges and used some Diamond Stickles on the wings
I took some light weight purple beading wire to form the antenna
and popped the butterfly up on the lower left of my card front.

On the inside I used a script stamp over a piece of printed paper from
the K&Company Best of Brenda Walton stack
I was given the butterfly (which was cut on white cardstock) in a RAK
so I used some spray and glittered it up,
ran it through the Polka Dot Embossing Folder in my Cuttlebug and
stamped it with a My Sentiments Exactly stamp

The last step was placing some small pearls
where each square met at the corners

Supplies used:

Best of Brenda Walton 12 x 12 Paper Pad	Monarch Butterfly Large Double Punch	*Ranger STICKLES DIAMOND	Tim Holtz Distress Ink PAD VINTAGE PHOTO	Cuttlebug 5 x 7 Embossing Folder POLKA DOTS
Martha Stewart 1-Inch Scalloped Square Punch	Hero Arts CLING Stamp ANTIQUE BACKGROUND WRITING	*Cuttlebug Die-Cut & Emboss Machine	3M Scotch ATG GUN 700

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Jolly Ol' Elf

Here's another stamp from the Recollection set I got.

I stamped the tree 4 times on the print paper and then cut out each layer

of boughs and popping them up for dimension.

I also restamped and cut out all the little packages to give them a little umph as well.

After the card front was finished I added the stickles for the baubles on the tree

and sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold Mist

The Merry & Bright stamp was in a RAK I received.

This was just a design from the paper cut out for the inside.

Poppy Ladies

Poppy is cut with the Silhoutte out of red cardstock and misted with Glimmer mist

Papers are Graphic 45 Fashionista

More poppies, the gold and orange are cut on white paper and
colored using Distress Inks and Glimmer mist
the purple one is Glimmer Mist on white die cut