Dressed to Impress Wedding Card

Phew.

My mom left on Thursday, in a way putting an end cap on the first (almost) half of the year. As much as another goodbye is the last thing I wanted, I feel like I have some closure on what has been a tumultuous year at best. For the first time in 2012 I feel like my life may be returning to normal.

I’m not sure I know what that looks like anymore.

Anyhow. That has nothing really to do with today’s post.

One of the “ups” in the last 6 months was a wedding. I’ve talked about it and showed you the cookies we made. Today I’m showing you the card.

So. I made this card. I wanted to make something personal for my close friends, something that would reflect them in some way. So I made little wedding outfits.

I started out with some jewelry wire that I twisted all around to create hangers. It’s not hard at all, but it looks sort of impressive. The only tools I used were wire cutters and a pair of small round-nosed pliers. Those are the most useful pliers if you want to make something out of jewelry wire.

I made the dress to resemble Elizabeth’s dress. My mom altered the dress, so I saw it several times. If you look really closely, you can see that I layered a patterned vellum over the skirt.

For Nate’s garment, I took a few more liberties. If you know my friend Nate, you know he’s an avid hunter. So while he didn’t actually wear a camo vest & tie, I think deep down it represents his true self. It’s what his aura was wearing.

I don’t know what I’m talking about.

I glued the pieces of each outfit together, and used double-sided tape to get the hangers to stick on the back. Then I used mini foam glue dots to bump them up from the surface of the card. Done!

I hope this inspires you to create some cards for the weddings you’re going to this summer!

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Oh! And my friend Emma from Frost on Flower Digital Photography took their photographs, and got a picture of my gift. I had planned to take a picture of it for you and forgot, but she saved my butt. 🙂 So here’s that picture:

I’m kind of obsessed with these paper roses as gift toppers, if you didn’t notice from this post and this post (tutorial on the second post linked.) I was excited to find this Shabby Chic paper at my local Michael’s, and I even snuck a little camo paper in there just for fun. 🙂 Anyway. Hope you enjoy!