Triangle Box

Yes, occasionally I play with something besides punches.

Yesterday, I took a little on-line class to make triangle boxes taught by the very fun and fabulous, Shari Dudek.

I know these have been around awhile but I just never bothered to try one.

WHY NOT?  They are so cute and so easy and so fun!

Here is what I made - with vanilla cardstock, the new vintage wallpaper embossing folder and some new Chantilly lace - it just looks so "wedding-ish". 

Just a 4x8 piece of cardstock and it comes out so ELEGANT!

No, there is no announcement coming with this project.

Hubby and I celebrated 26 years of not killing each other just last week.  And my girls are NOT serious with any one in particular (that I know of!)  This was simply a little play time and wedding is what came out. 

But maybe it is an idea YOU can use.  It was SUPER easy.

How cute would it be with a tag hanging from the lace ribbon with the monogram of the happy couple or the date of the big event?

Here is a link to the box directions and a gallery of ideas on Splitcoaststampers.  There are some "punch art" creations in this box gallery - so have fun poking around there!

Back of the Bride

I'm sure I'll have other "back of" characters now that we've started this - but my brain isn't firing on cylinders today so I did the easiest one first.

"Back to the bar" must have been at her bachelorette party, maybe?

Just like the bar chick - but instead of the bar stool, I added layers of 1/2 butterfly punches for the wedding dress.  Emboss the cardstock first, then punch. 

I went a little nuts with the embossing folders but needed the texture to show the white dress and hat on the white card.

Flowers are the retiring flower trio punch - I just had to give it a little attention before the move to the retired punch drawer.

3D flower Wedding Card

I'm a little behind the trends sometimes  - OK, most of the time. 

I have seen some fabulous, FABULOUS flowers made out of punches.  Rhea has an awesome one from my precious ornament punch.  Well, I'm sure she used HER ornament punch since mine never went missing, but you know what I mean.

Then my online buddy, Patrice, showed me how to make flowers from the scallop circle punch here.  And I immediately went and tried it - too easy!  And these are my first three flowers - I had to play with sizes!

The one on the card has 8 punches - the smaller two have 4 and 6 and they all look fabulous.

I followed Patrice's directions except my middle name is "impatience" so mine were still a little damp when I assembled - that was OK - I think it made it easier to do the last scrunching.

This card uses my fave embossing folder, the new Square Lattice, and also the lovely Finial Press.  And I think everything is popped up on dimensionals.  Obviously this has to be a "hand delivered" card so why not just keep on adding dimension?  Well, that was my thought process, anyway.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes (my current go-to sentiment set) and I stamped with Sahara Sand ink because I wanted the monochromatic look - I tried Soft Suede but even that was too dark.  Wishing SU still sold Organdy ribbon - that was perfect for wedding and baby cards....