Part of the reason that I have not had much time for making cards is because I have been working on a bridal shower album for a shower that my Mom hosted. Each of the guests wrote down advice or wishes for the bride and had their picture taken with her. From there, I created the album with each two-page layout dedicated to one of the guests. The feature colour is orange as that is her wedding colour and then I used black to really make the orange pop (using white made everything too bright and you didn't really notice the pictures).
There were 17 guests in all so this was quite a lot of work. I had to make sure they all tied together but weren't too similar. My solution was to use 4 different embellishments (flowers that I made, Prima flowers, 1/2" circles with pearls and buttons) and try to evenly space them throughout the book. I also tried to balance out vertical and horizontal dp so as to try to alternate them throughout the book. Finally, I also tried to even out the type of ribbon used (black satin, black grosgrain, white organdy and orange grosgrain). Took a lot of thought and well over 24 hours total to make but I think it turned out quite well.
These are some of the layouts that used the flowers I made from the SU retired set Embrace Life (faces and names are blurred for privacy.
These pages are some of my favourites of all because I love that flower and did you notice the pearls in it - those are SU pearls that come in all diffferent sizes. One of my new favourite things in the new catalogue!
The only thing I am not too fond of about this album is it used up all of this pattern of dp from the island oasis pack!
Stamp: SU Embrace Life (retired)
Ink: Jet Black StazOn, pumpkin pie
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Ribbon: SU basic black grosgrain, basic black satin, white organdy (retired)
Punches: SU scallop edge
Misc: SU pearls
My cousin will be getting this album tonight at her rehearsal dinner and I hope she enjoys it! I'll share a few more pages tomorrow! 
Paper: SU ww, basic black, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
These pages are some of my favourites of all because I love that flower and did you notice the pearls in it - those are SU pearls that come in all diffferent sizes. One of my new favourite things in the new catalogue!
The solid icecream image was stamped, the stamped again with the wavy image, covered in Crystal effects and then dazzling diamonds were dropped in before it dried for a neat effect. For some reason, rose red ink turned neon pink with the crystal effects on it so I ended up using cherry cobbler and it turned out to look like an exact match to the island oasis dp. Again, I used leftover embroidery thread to attach the tag (which is from Making Memories a long time ago but it looked so cute and matched perfectly with the icecream cone).
I based it of this week's mojo monday sketch 148 and designed it to match along with this box that I made some time ago and will use to package up the gift in - I'm glad I finally found a good use for it! I love all the white space on this card.
We've had this dark gray dandelion flurry decor element from Stampin' Up! for a long time but never put it together because we were waiting to decide what colour our new sheets would be so we could match the canvas to them. Our duvet is a nickel colour - which matches nicely with the dark gray and the sheets are a dark red (although the canvas looks a bit brighter in the photo). We love the way it turned out. This is actually a very large canvas too 30" x 40". For the time being we have it hanging in our living room.
I love the way it turned out. The only other difference I made between this version and the prevous (other than the colour) are: 1) the white cardstock was cut a bit smaller to create a larger black border behind it and 2) I lined up the black brads a little better in the corner.
