Wedding here!

My grandson is getting married! I have been working on an album for him as well as a card. My time is really limited right now, so I am just posting the card. I spent hours trying to come up with something I liked that wasn't colored as I knew I wouldn't get that one just right. The wedding is still to come, and I am almost ready to go. If I have time, I will post the album before we go. I have two images for weddings - a Magnolia one and the Bildmalarna one I used. I just thought this one fit the couple better. I took two photos of it so you could see it in different lights. Here they are and then I will tell you how I got those looks.

   I stamped the image on cardstock first, then I cut it out. I find that way I can really center the stamp and if I mess up stamping, there isn't much to do. I just turn the cardstock over and try again. While I was stamping, I made a mask of it on computer paper. This one took several steps that I am not sure would all need repeating, but I will let you decide that for yourself. Then I cut it out using a Spellbinder's die. I am not sure which one right now. I put the mask over the couple, and sprayed the background with a sparkle spray - didn't like the way it came out over the white background. So then I decided it was maybe because I didn't have anything done to the image. Awhile back I made a Tim Holtz pallet of my perfect pearls. You could look that up on youtube if you wish. You just mix the perfect pearl powder in the little pallet cup with a tiny bit of water, let it set and close the top of the pallet. So I painted the bride's dress and veil with perfect pearl color. Then did the flowers and leaves with the purple and green. After it dried, it looked yellow and I really didn't like it!! Then I decided to sparkle the background using that new glitter I bought for the last class I took. Ritz. I used a glue pen so I could get up close to the image. That helped a whole lot! I burnished it just a little to be sure it wasn't going to rub off. But I still really regretted painting the dress because now I didn't like it. I pulled out my Ranger pearl acrylic paint and put a little on my craft sheet and painted it with a tiny paint brush. I immediately noticed that I could get a raised effect as because I had the perfect pearls behind, the paper wasn't absorbing the paint at all. So I made sure my brush strokes followed how I thought the dress would fall. I took my time as paint doesn't dry quickly at all! Once I liked the look, I set it aside to dry. I had no idea what I was going to do with this! After it dried, I really liked the way it looked. Their wedding colors ended up being purple and green with a little brown. I found some very pretty paper that was silver over white making a neat design and I thought, I wonder how that would look embossed. So I tried it - loved the leaves in that embossing folder!! You really didn't notice it much, so I inked over it with the new purple distress ink from Tim Holtz - I think it was in the spring group. It was the absolute perfect color though!! Thought it needed a little fancy so I did the edge with a Martha Stewart punch.  I added the darker purple cardstock to set it off from the actual card and a ribbon and there wasn't anymore I needed to do to it except add a greeting to the inside.  Sure hope they like it. Sorry I have been absent. Have been on vacation and a little under the weather. Hugs to you all, Barb F