Congratulations Carrie & John!

Hello Everyone

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Today I am sharing an engagement card I made a little while ago for my dear friends Carrie and John who are to be married in May.

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As Carrie's sister is overseas at the moment, I was honoured and delighted to be asked to go with Carrie to choose her wedding dress - I can't tell you about her dress, other than to say she will look simply beautiful!

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OK - so here is the card I made. It is an enlarged and more fancy version of a rosebud card I had on my blog a couple of months ago.

I made the card using the stunning Bride speciality designer paper from Stampin' Up! This paper is more like a cardstock it is so thick and when you apply colour using a brayer or dauber it resists on the swirls, so you can turn in from bridal white to any colour you like.

I coloured the cardstock using Creamy Caramel ink and one of the punched hearts using Chocolate Chip ink.

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Next I punched a circle in the front of the card and attached a piece of vellum cardstock stamped with the En Francais background stamp. The rose buds are made using the Two Step Bird Punch, (the bud is the wing of the bird).

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Inside the card I used two tags stamped with the Mr & Mrs and Love sentiments from the Tiny Tags stamp set and punched using the matching punch. The envelope was stamped with Vintage Vogue.

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Hope you like - I was very pleased with this card :)