My Favorite Things

I can't believe it's Wednesday again already!  The weeks are just flying by so far this year.  It's time for another challenge at Amber's Crafts and Stuff and with it, a new project.  This week the theme is Favorite Things and I have used several of mine on my project.  My favorite things include the paper roses I recently learned to make, as well as flowers in general, ribbon, pearls, butterflies and Mariposa designer paper.  I have lots of other favorite things too but there wasn't space for all of them on this one card! LOL

One of my nephews is getting married in May so I made this one to go with his wedding gift.  I'm making the wedding album!  Yikes!  It's a little bit intimidating because I have never made one before and it's a really big project.  But I'm determined to have it turn out beautifully for him and his lovely wife-to-be.  I have most of what I need to make it, I just have to get busy putting it together now.

Here's my project for this week.  The overall dimensions of the card are 5' x 7".  The last photograph is the inside showing the sentiment which reads "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities".  What a positive message for a young married couple, right?  I thought it was really sweet.  I stamped it on cream cardstock in embossing ink and used metallic gold embossing powder and then stamped some small pink hearts around the sentiment.  I trimmed the top and bottom with strips of the same paper I used for the roses and butterflies.  You can see the lovely pattern more clearly in this picture.  I crimped the trim paper to add a little dimension to the interior.  See materials list for details.

Tools and materials I used to create this card:

Core'dinations Pearls in kind of a peachy pink for base card

American Crafts textured gold foil cardstock for bottom mat and bottom sentiment layer

The Paper Company cream cardstock for 2nd mat

The Paper Company black cardstock for 3rd mat

4" x 6" DCWV Mariposa mat stack for top layer

K & Company Classic K stack for the paper roses, butterflies and inside trim

Recollections adhesive pearls

Gold -edged organza ribbon from Michael's dollar bin

Small iridescent white flowers from Michael's bridal section

"For Your Wedding Day" stamp by Stampendous (one of a 5-stamp set called Special Messages)

Lasting Love Quotes stamp set by Fiskars for inside sentiment and hearts.

Hampton Arts Embossing Stamp Pad

Chocolate brown and peachy pink pigment ink pad from Studio G for edging

Tuxedo Black Memento dye ink for sentiment 

Metallic gold Zing embossing powder for inside sentiment.

Fiskars Paper Crimper

Flower punches by Fiskars (XL Poppy) and EK Suceess (medium retro flower)

Butterfly punch by Martha Stewart

Small rose leaf punch by Martha Stewart

Large rose leaves from Michaels

Embossing Stylus Set by Royal Langnickel

Blue Violet Ultrafine Crystal Glitter by Mark Enterprises

Beacon's 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Aleen's Original Tacky Glue

Aleen's Clear Gel Tacky Glue

Scotch Advanced Tape Glider (Pink ATG)

Foam adhesive mounting squares

Pop Up Glue Dots

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Card Craftin' Mamas  - Embellish It! 

ABC Challenge - S is for Sugar and Spice (My color choices are brown, pink and white which remind me of brown sugar as well as some spices, powdered sugar and spun sugar as in cotton candy)

Crafts and Me Challenges - Ribbons

Creative Craft World - Love and Marriage

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge - Wedding or Anniversary

The Paper Variety - Flowers

Truly Scrumptious - Vintage

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Flowers, flowers everywhere

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional

Tuesday Throwdown  - Sparkle & bling

Woodware USA - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  As always, your comments are both welcome and appreciated.  Have a wonderful day!

Happy crafting!

Anniebee