A Wedding Remembered

TGIF, Dear Blogging Friends~! I hope you are all relaxing from surviving the week. Today I have a Wedding Anniversary card to share, celebrating a dear friend's 25th Silver Anniversary. June is the Wedding Month and there are multiple blog challenges right now with Wedding themes. Well, I do not know a single soul who is getting married right now (COVID-19 has made that sort of impossible as to having a wedding), so I am hoping the challenge gatekeepers will allow Wedding Anniversary cards! I'm gonna enter and let them tell me if I am disqualified.

This friend lives in an area which is still under stay at home orders, so they are celebrating with takeout delivered. Where I live, you can get a huge jug of margerita mix with your meal delivered from all the Mexican restaurants. I have friends who order regularly, LOL. Wish Honey would do takeout right now, but he won't. I haven't had a burger or Mexican food in over 3 months now. OMG!

  

I used one of Try Stampin On Tuesday's current sketches. I moved my vertical strip closer to the center because it looked better with background that way, but it's not in the middle.

Because the lace I used (from my mom's stash) is quite thick, I popped up the purple strip and the sentiment on 1/8" dimensionals, something I rarely use since I mail so many cards. I usually use 1/16". For this one I splurged and sent it in a bubble mailer.

I started out by making a masterboard background pattern of irises using a stamp from Sweet n Sassy's Happy Irises set, stamping on some Bazzill silver shimmer card stock. I silver-heat-embossed and coloured them all with ProMarkers, then cut down a piece for the card front background matted on a piece of SU purple card stock.

I generated the sentiment in PSE. The veil, cake and hat are all leftover die cuts from a calendar I bought years and years ago.

For the inside, I used Papertrey Ink and Hampton Art sentiment stamps.

The back of the card: I used the leftover piece of background I'd cut the front background from, along with a leftover strip and a purple scrap for stamping and heat-embossing my personalized siggie in silver. The mat is a piece of 4.5 x 6.5-inch DCWV mat stack card stock. I had bought several of these over the years and keep what is left next to where I assemble my cards. Comes in handy when I'm being lazy and need something right then. The colors here are not good. The mat is more purple in real life.

A couple of close-ups to note the shiny silver metallic ribbon peeking out from behind the white lace, the silver DCWV patterned card stock and the silver-embossed irises.

Thanks for visiting and stay well and safe -- but have a wonderful weekend! XOX

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:
1.   TSOT Challenge Sketch 460 + Opt. Sweet Treats -- sketch is shown above, and I have played the Sweet Treats option with wedding cake!
2.   IYGACAC #144: Photo Inspiration -- I was inspired by the flowers and the colors.  

3.   Creative Artiste MM Challenge #61: AAG -- I have combined paper, alcohol markers, fabrics (lace and ribbon), ephemera, embossing ink and embossing powder.
4.   The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge: Here Comes the Bride -- I hope you accept a wedding anniversary card
5.   Crazy 4 Challenges C4C538: Use Real or Faux Lace -- I've used real lace.
6.   More Mixed Media June Challenge: AG + Opt. Purple -- I've used a lot of purple to play the option.
7.   Crafty Cardmakers #258: Wedding -- I hope you accept a wedding anniversary card
8.   Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge #100: Celebrate It! -- Celebrating a wedding anniversary and I've hand-stamped the irises all over the background and heat-embossed them in silver ep.  

9.   Classic Design Challenge #6: AAG 

10. Outlawz Festive Fridays 6/12-25: Wedding theme
11. Sparkles Monthly Challenge #128: Use a Real Stamp (No Digi) -- I hand stamped the iris background with a Sweet n Sassy Happy Irises clear stamp
12. Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 22: AG with Colouring -- I used ProMarkers to colour the irises I stamped on my background.