A Fairytale Wedding

 My dear friend Rachel got married today in Italy!  How romantic is that!?  

Sounds like a girls fairytale wedding dream to marry in a castle in Italy, doesn't it?  

 That's how I finally came up with the idea for this card. The beautiful 

bride is a Saturated Canary digi called "Bride" and the carriage

is a digi from Crafts & Me.

  I originally made this card with the bride walking

through a rose covered archway and down a long stone path leading to a church on the

 hillside.  I ended up ditching that idea because I just wasn't happy with all the green 

that the pasture brought into the picture.  

I think birds also make it feel very fairytale like.  I love how these birds

 turned out to appear to be carrying the scroll.  The sentiment is a digi from Sassy Design Studios.  I printed it on cardstock, rolled both ends, with one end

wrapped around a decorative metal rod I purchased at Michaels.

I then distressed the paper and added some ink to

give it an aged look.

Of course this had to have flowers!!  The white one already had bling but

then I added glitter stickles to the rest of them.  It is difficult to see,

but there is also a diamond bauble at the bottom of the bouquet.

I love how the bride turned out.  I have a tough time coloring black hair so

anytime it turns out halfway decent, I'm happy.  I cut a "C" shape at the top of

her headpiece and inserted tulle to give her a veil.  I then added more bling to

give her a pearl headpiece.

Most of my cards are quite bulky because of all the embellies.  So I

have to make enveloboxes like I'm sure a lot of you do also.

This is the one I made for this card.

This card was made with so much love and I hope you find some inspiration!

I will be entering this into several fun challenges:

saturatedcanarychallenge.blogspot.com:  B's: Bride, birds, bouquet, bling, brads

7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.com:  1-2-3

whimsyinspires.blogspot.com:  Anything goes

thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com:  Here come the girls
thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com: Wedding/Anniversaries
blog.oozak.com: Sparkle
comeandgetitchallenges.blogspot.com: tictactoe (pearls, free (diecuts), ribbon)
paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com: punches
thecraftypad.blogspot.com: scraptastic
scrap-creations1.blogspot.com: pick 3: ribbon, pearls, die-cuts/punches
gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com: birds
kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com: flowers
tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com: gems