MTME Pretty Patterns #13

A dear friend of mine told me that her pastor is getting married and she needs a card for his wedding.  Instead of giving her one of my other cards, I decided to make a new card using MTME's wedding cake image and MTME designer paper, Wildflowers. I'm so excited about this week's sketch.  It was a lot of fun to work with. 

I made the flower - oh yes I did!  I've made one similar to this one but it was quite big so I used the two middles sized flowers in this Sizzix die for this flower.  The instructions on how to make this fun flower is on my friend, Linda's blog: The Funkie Junkie - Easy Apple Blossom Tutorial

 The center of the flower is... a button of course!  Last week JoAnn's was having 40% all buttons so I stocked up on a few of my favorites.  I'm not sure if they are still on sale - they could be... another JoAnn's flyer just came in the mail today for next week. 

I just LOVE MTME's digi wedding cake found in the stamp set called On Display.  I wanted the cake to be a little larger than the original size so I easily enlarged it and then printed it up.  Lauren has a lot of video tutorials that are easy-peasy to follow. She also has a link to a FREE program that you can use with your digi stamps. Changing a stamp's size is one of the perks of buying digi! 

I colored the cake with copics added the little pearls and then added a tiny bit of shimmer by outlining the roses with my star dust pen. (I totally forgot the name of it.  lol)  I gathered some lace down the middle in a zig-zag fashion and adhered it to the card (before I attached the flower of course).

 I dry embossed the white background with Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder, cut the lattice with Cherrylynndesigns Lattice #2... and then I had to re-size it to fit in the area I wanted it to.  You can see the dry embossing a little better in the photo below:

I cut out the sentiment, To the Happy Couple from the set So Sentimental, with Spellbinder's fancy tags.

 All the fun, frilly, layers and details.  What fun!

 

 This sentiment, "Love" is stamped on the inside of the card.  I found this and several other rubber stamps mounted on wood at Michael's that were originally $1 each but were on sale for $.60.  You just can't beat that!

 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will stop by My Time Made Easy Blog  and join in the fun!  Here is this week's sketch:

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

CR84FN: light pink, med green, neutral (white!)

Wee Memories: anything goes

Truly Scrumptious: Summer & Sparkle- June weddings & pearls & shimmer on roses

Mark's Finest Papers:  use a 3-D flower

Paper Take Weekly: anything goes!

The Shabby Tea Room: embossing
Stamp TV's Mix it up Monday: add texture to your card.  (if my card doesn't qualify with all the different textures... then I don't know what does!  tee-hee!)