Magnolia Down Under Challenge DT - Transparency

Woohoo!! It is time for another challenge at Magnolia Down Under Challenge and this week we'd like you to use acetate on your creations!! I'm so excited to show you this card! It is the card I have made for my Brother and his new wife for their wedding! I'm not sure when to give it to them though: they married on Thursday in Italy so I didn't attend and their reception is two weeks after they come back so do I give it to them when they return or at the reception LOL??? Answers on a postcard please!!

Here is another angle which shows the acetate front panel a little better. The idea was that I could then have tiny punched hearts as confetti floating down in front of the bride and groom! I just love making acetate cards - especially white stamping on them LOL! I have stamped around the edges of the acetate with Magnolia's New Years swirl using white stazon and in between the little bridesmaid and pageboy I have stamped the two hearts and banner stamp from the Magnolia Wedding collection.

So, onto the details and first up is the sweet ribbon hair Tilda - I think she is my all time favourite now, superceding my last one LOL. I have coloured her with copics and added stickles to the bows in her hair and the ribbon on the gift. It is difficult to see in this photo but I have also added liquid pearls to the centre of the flower and given her some pearl shoe buttons with it too.

Next up is Edwin. How gorgeous is this stamp!?!? I saw it on sale a couple of weeks ago for half price so snapped him up quick ready for this card! So glad I did, he is just adorable! Again, he is coloured with copics and I have given him some liquid pearl buttons on his shirt and also in the centre of the flower.

All the die cut swirls and leaves were cut with doohickey dies from white pearlescent cardstock. The pin, chiffon flower and gorgeous butterfly are all from The Hobby House and the cream rose is from Wild Orchid Crafts. The butterfly was gold so I have painted it with a white acrylic dabber and given it some liquid pearl spots on the body.

Another butterfly from The Hobby House above Tilda along with some mokre roses, a pin and pieces of a gorgeous Magnolia Crystal Garland courtesy of my lovely friend Debbie - thank you so much hun, I've been saving this for something special as I just couldn't bare to use it LOL! You can see in this photo also that I have added little liquid pearl dots to all the dots of the flourish stamping around the edges - it looks so effective!

You can see the hearts image stamped onto the acetate clearer in this photo along with the little hearts of confetti which were waste from some tag die cuts I've used on the back of the card. The bride and groom have been coloured with copics too and I have added some stickles to her dress. The backing paper is from MME's La Paperie stack.

On the back I've used the same paper and I have stamped the hearts and banner stamp again. I've coloured parts of it with copics and then added the date of their marriage freehand.

I used the cute little heart tags from Whiff of Joy to add their names and attached them with a bow.

Inside the pocket are two tags cut with the larger Whiff of Joy heart tag die for messages. I added two as then my husband and I can write on one and the children can write on the other and that way they still get to write on the card without me having to make another especially for them LOL!

I hope you like it and thank you for staying with me if you read all that!! Pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the team's stunning acetate creations - there are some amazing ideas! Hope you can join in and thanks for looking! x