Embossed Wedding Card-Frilly and Funkie-With This Ring

Hello crafty friends and visitors! It's time for the Funkie girls at Frilly and Funkie to present you with their inspiration for Cec's challenge theme 'With This Ring'. I'll give you the details in just a minute, but first I'd like to share my embossed wedding card with you.

It is wedding season so let's create vintage or shabby chic projects that celebrate the big day.  Your creation might be a card, a gift, a decor item or something to keep the memories of the special occasion.

I don't know about you, but I am a sucker for a wedding!  I have watched Princess Diana's wedding and all four of the Dugger weddings so far on TV, and I love going to every wedding I can afford and am able to travel to!  I need lot's of wedding cards for my stash, and thanks to Cec, I've got one more!

I started by making the background panel, and I was going for a vintage flocked wallpaper look. I used a Wendy Vecchi Art and You stamp, Distress Oxide, crayon, and ink and embossing powder. In the top photo, you get a feel for the subtle shimmer. It's very hard to photograph the 'flocked' appearance, and of course you can't feel it, but the finish on this is so silky to the touch. Perfect for a wedding card! I hope to be doing a step by step tutorial on this technique next month at Frilly and Funkie...stay tuned.

I backed this with a panel that I heat embossed with a mixture of several powders, just around the edges to conserve my stash. My mixture includes 2 parts  Ranger Frosted Crystal Antiquities, 1 part Ranger silver, and 1 part Emerald Creek Hammered Metal embossing powders. The Frosted Crystal gives it a nice matte finish with some of the silver glimmer peeking through. Love this recipe! Yum!

My happy couple come from Tim's Paper Dolls, and I colored them with Distress markers. I think the groom looks a little nervous--what do you think? A die cut doily (Tim Holtz) and some delicate flowers from Tim's Botanical Layers give them a soft background for their matrimonial photo shoot.

The die cut heart is Spellbinders Vines of Passion. I colored the background using the same stamp I did on the 'wallpaper', but stamped bits of it randomly to fill the heart with the design. I inked the stamp with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide and spritzed it with water before making my impressions. I dried it and blended with Hickory Smoke Distress ink. For the filigree part of the heart I dabbed on Ranger Emboss It Dabber and heat embossed using my concoction of powders listed above.

A few white roses and a Clippings Sticker on chipboard and inked with Frayed Burlap finish off my vintage wedding card.

Now it's over to you! We hope you'll join our challenge for a chance to win a generous $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique! The team will also be choosing  their top four picks. I hope you'll take a minute to hop over to Frilly and Funkie to see all the wedding inspiration my talented frilly and funkie team mates have made for you!

I'll be sharing with these challenges:

Country View Challenges-June 2017 - Hearts

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #37 – A Year of Choices I chose #33 'Sweet Inspiration' inspired by the graphic-hearts and pinks.

Deep Ocean Challenge-Challenge #158: "Lots of Layers" Although it's a flat card there are 6 layers!

Fashionable Stamping Challenges-Challenge #124 – Make It Feminine

Dies R Us-Challenge #75 - Celebrations- I used Sizzix and Spellbinders dies.

Thank you for dropping in today and for leaving your wonderful comments! I read and appreciate them all! 

Hugs and Blessings! 

Sara Emily

The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Art and You	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set - Crocheted Doily 1 by Tim Holtz 661497 (February Pre-Order)	Spellbinders® Vines of Passion	(February Pre-order) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Worn Lipstick	Ranger Tim Holtz Hickory Smoke Distress Ink Pad
VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad	Ranger Embossing Antiquities - Frosted Crystal 1.5 oz.	Ranger Embossing Powder - Silver	Emerald Creek Alure Powders - Hammered Metal	Ranger Adirondack Emboss It Dabber
(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Worn Lipstick	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Evergreen Bough	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #3 TDBK47926 (February Pre-order)	Tim Holtz Ideaology Clippings Stickers TH93583