It's been a while.....

It's been a while since I've posted any projects.  Life has been little busy with my daughter's play and my niece's wedding.  My niece's life revolves around horses, so her wedding was a truly western theme..cowboy boots, line dancing, horses and all.  It was such a fun wedding!  So I made her a rather untraditional card for her untraditional wedding.

I realize this card uses mostly retired and non-Stampin'Up! products.  But I thought it turned out really cute, so I thought I'd share it.  You may notice there are 2 different boots....there wasn't room for 2 pairs of boots, so one is the girl's boot the other is the boy's boot.  Notice the boy's boot looks bigger, than the girls boot....same stamp, just positioned so it appears to be bigger.  The idea was the 2 separate boots have now become one pair!  It's ok, my family didn't get it either.

The boots are from a great retired set called "Out West," and the greeting is from the retired set, "Short and Sweet."  I embossed the boots with Early Espresso ep, colored in the swirls with marker, then sponged them with More Mustard, Soft Suede and a tiny bit of Early Espresso Classic Inks.
The greeting is embossed in Early Espresso ep on vellum card stock and punched out with the word window punch, then attached with a brad to a label from the Apothacary Accents framelits pack.

The background is CASEd from a YouTube video by Gina K.  It's a Spotlight Technique she calls Double Letterpress.  I used the same Cuttlebug folder that she did.  The Stampin'Up! colors I used were:  Pool Party, More Mustard and Always Artichoke.  There's also a bit of Soft Suede sponged onto the label.  To add to the distressed look of the card I took out my eyelet setter and pounded a divit into the center of the brad.

I had to send some sympathy and thinking of you cards recently, so this was the result.  It was inspired by a recent card on Michelle Zindorf's blog (card tutorial #609).  I know, they are totally different, but I was mainly inspired by the colors....I've used Pool Party, Island Indigo, Old Olive, Blushing Bride, Primrose Petal and white gel pen.  The set used is Everything Eleanor, and the flowers were colored with markers and blender pen and cut out (I molded the petals of the largest flower to make it stand out more).  I added a few pearl jewels to the centers of the smaller flowers.  I used the same Apothecary Accent label framelit as the last card to cut out the distressed-looking label stamp from Everything Eleanor (the stamp is way bigger than the framelit, so move it around to get the look you want).

Thanks for looking!

Marge