Hi everyone.  

I'm back again sharing some inspiration from the bright and beautiful collection from @polkadoodles.

I love a CAS card, and this collection was made for this! 

Using the circle shutter die, and the dahlia flower die I was able to make this beautiful wedding card.  I just cut the dies from white card stock, colouring the flowers with alcohol markers.  

The great thing about these flower dies is they can be simple like this, or inked. layered and shaped for more realistic looking blooms! 

Once I have die cut the circle shutter, I then used a stencil to emboss the background for a bit of texture.

I glued and layered everything together with a sentiment from the tying the knot stamp set (also from Polkadoodles) which was white heat embossed onto black card for a bold look.

I hope you like it - please do check out this release over on the polkadoodles webstie.

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See you all soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

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Wedding card and invite ideas

 Hi everyone

As well as the weekly challenge at Polkadoodles, they also have a great new set of stamps for weddings.  They are so versatile and can be used for wedding stationary, as well as congratulations cards for getting married, engagement, anniversary etc.

I made a card using the sets, and incorporating a belly band wrap 

I stamped several of the images from the stamp set, fussy cut them out, and coloured them using copics.  Using a landscape 5X7 card, I scored to make a gatefold card and using a strip of pink card, wrapped it around for the band.

I then cut a scalloped circle and a plain circle using the same pink card and some white card respectively, and layered the fussy-cut images.  To make the heart panels, I used the tiny heart stamp in the set and randomly stamped in pink over a piece of white card, before trimming the panels to size.  

I decided to showcase his as an invite, but it could be for any love-style celebration really.

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Creative fingers - anything goes

Daring card makers - something old, something new (wedding card)

Creative inspiration challenge - anything goes

Krafty chicks - all occasions

Crafty gals - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by - please leave me a comment if you land here.  If not - I have other social media channels above you can follow for more inspiration!

Crafting hugs

Rachael

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