Wedding Rings

Cupcake Wedding

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Its Sneak Peek Week for Karen Burniston’s June 2023 Release.

Not all weddings have cake. Some have cupcakes. This is a card to congratulate the couple on their big day using some of Karen Burniston’s June 2023 Release dies including Cupcake Landscape Accordion Add-On and Word Set 17 – Congratulations along with previously released Wedding Charms, Border Blends – Trims, Long Rectangles – Crosshatch and Christmas Trees Pop Stand.

Front side of cupcakes

Cardbase: Cut a rectangle 8×6 inches, score down the middle longways and fold to form a top-fold slimline card that measures 3 inches high and 8 inches wide. Using the second largest die in the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut four panels from decorative paper. Adhere two of the decorative panels to the inside of the cardbase. Die cut pop-stands into cardbase. (I used a die-cut of the three cupcakes and a T-ruler to locate the center of the card and where the center cupcake should be. Pencil marks were made on the center fold where the card center was and then where the side cupcakes’ centers were. While I cut three pop-stands, Two pop-stands for the end cupcakes would be enough to make them stand.) Add the other two decorative panels to the cardbase front and back panels covering over the holes from the pop-stands.

Cupcake Pop-Stand: Cut two of the three cupcake outline from sturdy white cardstock. Cut three frosting tops from shimmer cardstock with shimmer side up. Cut three more frosting tops from shimmer cardstock with shimmer side down. Cut four cupcake liners from silver holographic card stock and two more from gold holographic cardstock.

Backside of cupcakes

Borders: Using the third and fourth largest dies in the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut two frames from lightweight white cardstock. Adhere frames to front and back panels of card base. Using the wavy ribbon trim from the Border Blends – Trims, cut five ribbons from lightweight white cardstock for the inside border. (Retain the tiny hearts that are cut with the ribbon to decorate the card.) Cut two of the ribbons in half for the sides. Adhere long ribbons to the top and bottom and piece in the remaining ribbon to complete the borders.

Decorations: From the Wedding Charms cut and emboss one wedding dress and one tuxedo shirt triangle from the shimmer cardstock and one tuxedo from black cardstock. With a fine-tip black pen dot the tuxedo shirt buttons. Glue shirt triangle to back of tuxedo and then glue tuxedo to backside of wedding dress. Adhere to front of card. Cut one each of the wedding rings and champagne glasses from matte gold cardstock and glue onto top inside panel. Use hearts from border trims to decorate glasses and ring. Scatter and adhere remaining hearts among all the panels.

Sentiments: Cut “Congratulations on your Big Day” from matte gold cardstock. Glue “Congratulations” onto the card front and “on your Big Day” to the top inside panel. Using the smallest crosshatch die  from the Crosshatch Long Rectangles, cut one rectangle from lightweight white cardstock. Round the corners with a small corner punch.  Glue to inside lower panel as a label for a personal message.

Envelope: The card will fit in a #9 or #10 business envelope. Give a hint of what is to come by gluing a ribbon border and hearts to the back flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – 12×12 Double-Sided Paper Pad – Secret Garden designed by Clare Therese
  • Craftwork Cards – 8×8 Heavyweight Cardstock – Olive Grey
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock
  • Hot Off The Press – 8.5×11 Holographic Cardstock – Stars Gold and Stars Silver
  • White Cardstock – Lightweight and Heavyweight
  • Black Cardstock
  • Gold Matte Cardstock
  • #10 Business Envelope – Kraft

Ink

  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Another Banner Year

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Traditionally, across the world the 27th wedding anniversary is jet stones or ebony wood, but there is no designation for the anniversary in the United States of America. We hope it is another banner year to use a sports metaphor.

Shaped cards that are pop-ups are easy with Karen Burniston’s die sets. I used several die sets from her December 2022 release including Banner Crosshatch and Wedding Charms. Previous released die sets include Cake Pop-up, Anniversary Word Set 12 and Mini Alphabet and Numbers. (The green holographic cardstock goes rainbow when photographed.)

To cut a shaped cardbase fold a mid-weight cardstock (4 1/4 x 11 inches) in half. Place the die so that it just hangs over the top fold of the cardstock and die cut through both layers.

The cool part of using the largest of the banner crosshatch dies to make the cardbase is that it adds a border pattern to all edges of the card.

I cut, with the next size down banner die, the patterned paper for inside the card, and the holographic mirror cardstock for the front and back of the card. (Thin paper inside and thick cardstock outside helps the cake pop-up work smoothly.)

To have the pop-up cake fit inside the card, I used only the top two layers, folding down the tabs on the middle layer to glue to the cardbase. For the cake decoration of the double wedding rings, I folded a scrap of gold foil cardstock in half and die-cut the rings so that I had matching gold rings that I could glue together. The diamond is cut from shimmer cardstock scrap and embossed after it was glued to the ring. (I used the ring die to emboss with.)

Included in the Wedding Charms die set is the “Best Wishes” sentiment which pairs well with the previously released “Happy Anniversary” sentiment.

Card Back

Vellum champagne glasses and the tuxedo/wedding dress charms finish off the card.

(I used tape runner adhesive to assemble the champagne glasses.)

For the front custom sentiment, I used the Mini Alphabet and Numbers. (Storing the individual letters in separate compartments makes it easy to spell out words. Writing out the count needed for each letter is also helpful.)

To hint at what is inside the envelope, I used the “Best Wishes” sentiment in the Wedding Charms set to cut from white gold shimmer cardstock.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

  • Park Lane Papier – 6×6 Paper Pad – Silver Holographic Cardstock
  • Tonic Studios – Craft Perfect Mirror Cardstock – Seafoam Green
  • Funky Fossil Designs – 8×8 Paper Pad – Watercolour Rainbow
  • The Paper Studio – 8.5×11 Vellum – Clear
  • Hunkydory – 8.5×11 Printed Parchment – Forever Florals – Autumn Days
  • Recollections – 8.5×11 White Gold Shimmer Cardstock
  • Black and White Scrap Cardstock
  • A2 Green Envelope

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