Nature Walk wedding

The latest challenge over at Make My Monday had me flummoxed for a while. There is an ongoing vintage theme at the site and this week the challenge is to use lace and pearls on your vintage card. Well I don't actually have any lace although I do have plenty of my beloved self adhesive pearls! Anyway, I've finally come up with something but I don't know whether it'll be okay for the challenge... Is there such a thing as clean and simple vintage? Because I think this might be it!

It's a wedding/engagement card! I didn't actually set out to make one - it just happened! Does that ever happen to you?!!

To get round the fact I didn't have any lace, I used my eyelet border punch to make some faux broderie anglaise. Does that count? I added a thin strip of one of my favourite papers from the Springtime Vintage designer paper range and then a border of these beautiful pearls. There are some strips stuck together on the Stampin' Up sheets to make this kind of thing very quick and easy.

Weddings are very special and deserve a bit of extra time to cut out this beautiful sprig from Nature Walk. I threaded a piece of Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon through the stem and tied it in a simple knot. I like the way it echoes the colour of the pearls and also provides contrast with the pure white of the Whisper White card base. The sentiment from Perfect Punches was coloured with markers to match the blue of the paper and the purple of the flowers.

Supplies needed for this card:

Stamps: Nature Walk, Perfect Punches

Ink: Subtles markers

Card stock: Whisper White

Other: Basic Pearls, Springtime Vintage designer paper, eyelet border punch, modern label punch, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon

You can buy any of these supplies from me and I can have them delivered to your address in the UK. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593.

We had an International Incident here yesterday when my eldest son found an earwig which must've strolled in during the day while we had the French doors open. My son took one look at it and quite literally screamed. "Aaaaaargh! There's a scorpion in the living room!" he yelled. Of course in his head he is the hero walking through a land teaming with dangerous beasts but I'm rather relieved we don't have to cope with scorpions!

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