The
theme for the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is Anything Goes. You must have used
something printed from a CD, a USB or a digital download and you must state where
the item used is from.
A
very good friend of one of my niece’s recently got married. The Corona virus
restrictions have really plagued their wedding plans this year. The ceremony was
rescheduled from March and everything down sized to fit in with the rules. But
even up to the day before the wedding they were having to alter things. They’d
planned on having an afternoon tea style reception – all socially distanced in the
church hall but the day before the wedding the Prime Minister changed the rules
and they had to cancel the reception. Luckily, the company providing the food
allowed them to cancel with no loss of money.
I
felt so sorry for them and wanted to make a wedding card that fitted the style
of their wedding. My niece told me that the wedding theme was a rainbow.
Nothing to do with the ‘thanking the NHS/essential workers rainbow’. Apparently
a rainbow has a biblical connection of hope and promise and the bride and groom
are both Christians. Their original wedding invites from March were very simple
and basic so I wanted to follow the same style. I wanted a central ‘topper’ for
the card and turned to my trusty Serif Craft Artist as I knew I had some Purple
Ronnie digi kits that would have pictures of stick people and luckily there was
a bride and groom image.
First
of all I found a rainbow and stretched it out to fill the width of the card. I then added the church image and resized it
so it fitted perfectly inside the rainbow.
The bride
and groom were added at the bottom of the card and I resized them so the church
appeared to be in the distance behind them. I added a few pink hearts and
recoloured them to have a silver effect as their invites had had silver hearts
on them. After quite a lot of work I
eventually managed to stretch a path until it flowed from the church grounds
and ended up under the feet of the married couple but still the colour was
wrong. I played around with the ‘Style’ button and eventually changed the path’s
appearance and it just happened to be a similar colour to the grounds of the
church. I printed the bride’s bouquet and the hearts twice so I could layer
them up.
So
now I had a topper that I was happy with I could concentrate on the rest of the
card. I had the crazy idea to make layers of rainbow coloured card! I looked up
the order the colours were in a rainbow and luckily I had almost all the
colours in my stash – except indigo! I had to use a very dark purple. Who knew
card making involved the use of maths! I needed to work out the size of the
eight layers so I could fit them on a card blank that was 7 by 10 inches.
I
also designed a paper for the inside of the card that had rainbows with hearts
at the one end. I copied the image, flipped it and joined it to the first
rainbow so it looked like the top of a heart.
I
was thrilled with how the card turned out but decided I wanted to do more for
the couple. I found some rainbow coloured bunting to download and made two long
strands of bunting. They were originally meant to decorate the room where the reception
was going to be held but instead used them for the church itself.
Items used:
Serif
Craft Artist digi kits: Purple Ronnie Wedding, Home From Home, Seasonal Garden,
Country Garden.
All
card from my stash
Bunting
from The Purple Pumpkin Blog
The
challenge will close on Saturday 26th September at 1pm.
Don't
forget that the CD Sunday Plus Challenge is now about making items using
something printed from a craft CD Rom, USB or digital download. You can use
other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or die, but you must
include something printed from the new categories. In your blog post/Facebook
entry you must give the name of the printed item you've used.
We also have a Facebook page if you
don't have a blog - The CD Sunday Plus Challenge.
