Lockhart Bride

Happy Beautiful Morning to you! Today I have some more traditional wedding shower cards to show you, using my absolute favorite color. I just love this blue-grey color that I call *front porch blue*. I found these beautiful papers by My Mind's Eye at my local scrapbook store(Scrapbooks, Etc in Topeka, Kansas), and the colors remind me of my grandma's front porch. It had many thick layers of this color of blue/gray and it makes me happy every time I think of her house. For my main image, I chose Karen Lockhart's pretty Bride stamp. As you can see in the photo above, she's got a handsome Groom stamp to match. For the bride's dress, I wanted to keep it pretty much the creamy color but I did want a little contrast to set it apart from the background. So I reached for my Eclipse Masking Tape and made a reverse mask for the skirt portion of the bridal gown. I carefully cut the skirt out with scissors and taped back together the mask. I used my Copic Airbrush System (can you tell I got some refills finally?) and airbrushed a wisp of color over the gown. Notice I said a *wisp*....just a few short bursts of color and that's it, you don't want to over do it. Easy does it, girls.

And here's my finished cards...I really wanted to keep these for myself! I cut and embossed the main image with a Spellbinders Rectangle Die Template and then layered that onto another Scalloped Spellbinders Rectangle. I kept both layers the same cream color and played up the beautiful tone on tone textures.

I added a Papertrey sentiment from the Simple Little Things set(anniversary set from last year, no longer for purchase), some pearls, lace trim, and some crushed velvet ribbon (May Arts from Archivers) and some glitter on the veil and skirt bottom. I think the cards evoke the feel that parts of the bride's gown is right there on the card.

I fancied up the inside of the cards too with another Papertrey sentiment from the Simple Little Things set and a colored vine image from Karen Lockhart's Rose Border stamp. I dotted the flowers and leaves with a little dab of Copic markers and then used my Copic Colorless Blender (0) to wash out the color.

Very pretty indeed for the pretty bride to be.