Tuesday 17 April 2012

New Beginnings Blog Party

It's the 17th of the month, which can only mean one thing, it's time to waltz with the mouse over at the Waltzingmouse Blog Party :-D   The theme for this month's party is "new beginnings" which had me a little stumped at first, but in the end I decided to go with a wedding card.



I stamped the gorgeous dress from You're Lovely onto some papermania patterned white vellum and embossed with with white pearl EP.  I brushed over some blue distress ink, spritzed it and buffed with a tissue so the white patterned showed through but gave a soft blue hue to the dress.  I cut a nestie shape in white and embossed with text and mounted on a blue matt.   I decided to make it a DL card so embossed another strip of white with dots for more texture, mounted it onto silver and rounded all the corners, adding a blue bow.  The sentiment is from Big Day Additions and is perhaps my favourite ever sentiment set - those flourishes Clare designed are just TDF!   I simply stamped it onto the same blue card as I used for the matt around the image and embossed it with fine detail white EP.  I think it came out quite elegant in the end.

Looking forward to hopping around all the other blogs to see what new beginnings everyone else opted for.....

I'm also going to enter it into a new challenge I've found the Crafters Cafe Challenge which is a monthly challenge and this month they want pastel colours - well my soft blues are very pastel.  http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/challenge-3-spring-with-pastel-colors_18.html

26 comments:

  1. Such a pretty card Tara love the dress and lovely blue tones

    Anne

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  2. Your vellum embossed gown looks so lovely on this! love the long card and pretty embossings!

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  3. This is stunning. The colors are outstanding and all the dimension you achieved with embossing. It's a great touch! I'm so glad you were able to play along with the Blog Party today!

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  4. WOW! This is gorgeous! M x

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  5. Beautiful card, the embossing is a fab backdrop to that beautiful vellum dress!

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  6. Your stamped vellum dress is so pretty and so is your card. Love both of the embossings you used.

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  7. wow, this is stunning, love the vellum dress and script embossed nestie!

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  8. Love your use of texture.

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  9. This is absolutely gorgeous. I love how you did that dress. I would have loved a wedding dress like that.

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  10. EEK that vellum dress is AMAZING! I just love the touches of "something blue" on the whole card :) The mix of embossed patterns look divine on the white cardstock!

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  11. Your embossed dress is stunning!! And I love all the textured panels in the bg too! Beautiful card!!

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  12. That dress is gorgeous!!
    LOVE it on that beautiful vellum!
    And what fabulous embossing...
    so much texture!
    Gorgeous colors...
    gorgeous dress...
    gorgeous card! :)

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  13. Your card is Beautiful!! Love the dress on vellum, and the gorgeous embossed backgrounds.

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  14. Love the different textures and that vellum dress!

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  15. what a beautiful card, love all of your embossing!

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  16. Beautiful card! Love that elegant WM dress! Thanks for joining along with WMS :)

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  17. Well, you are right your card is quite elegant. That dress is just fabulous...perfect for any wedding!

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  18. What a gorgeous wedding card! Love the embossing and the dress is stunning!

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  19. Oooo, this is so Chic Tara! I love all the embossing and that gorgeous Spellbinders label - pure elegance!

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  20. WOW, this is nice! And those colors together! Love from Holland.

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  21. You have so many great details here - dry embossing, heat embossing, fancy die cuts - all come together for a beautiful creation!

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  22. This is beautiful! That dress is gorgeous!!!! Thanks for joining us over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog! :)

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  23. Yes, I love that fine detail embossing powder, it really looks fab in white on that blue, like wedgewood! Gorgeous treatment of the dress too!! Cracking card! Thank you so much for playing along with us at WMS!!

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  24. This is gorgeous!! So elegant!! Thanks for sharing with us at The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog!! Blessings!!

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  25. This card is wonderful, with so many special layers and textures, but SERIOUSLY - would you please come to Canada and show me how to tie a PERFECT bow like yours? It is the cherry on top for this card!

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  26. I love this beautiful and elegant card. The embossing is absolutely gorgeous!

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