Marvelous Possibilities

  I did not want to put off making a wedding card at the last minute this week, which is usually my nature.  The wedding that I am going to for my niece, Elizabeth, and her handsome, Patrick is a black and white affair, with a touch of red.  They asked all the guest to come in black and white attire, and I know that the bride will be wearing red shoes, and a red flower in her hair, and I think the groom will have a red tie, otherwise everything will be black and white.  I started out to make a black and white card, but it turned into a red and white card with a touch of black.  I know Liz will like that. It's hard to come up with black and white paper in my stash, because I am all about the colors.  In fact, I had to dive back into Candlelight Christmas to find some red and white for this card.  I used hearts from More Amore, and the stamps are from Sweet Essentials, Petite Pairs, and Tiny Tags.  It doesn't have a lot of stamping, but ...

Isn't it funny how sometimes you have a great vision, but when you actually come to making the card, it just does not live up to the expectations?  This is one of those cards.  I don't think I have ever assembled and disassembled a card so many times.  It started out with the red flocked paper that I had left from Christmas from Candlelight Christmas DSP, and I saw used on some Valentine cards.  I wanted to frame it up with some Glimmer paper and really make it elegant.  I tried backing it with white, no ivory that was embossed.  No?  How about pink?  Embossed?  No, too gaudy.  Just when I thought I would leave it red, I had to walk away from it.  Came back the next day and started playing with it again.  Just was not speaking to me, so I decided to retire it.  But, today I decided that I would make it into a card for my dear hubby.  (He don't care, he'll take anything I make).  I decided today to take a ch...