Mr. and Mrs.

So, my niece got married over the weekend. It was a beautiful outdoor ceremony with an elegant take on and old farm theme. There was an ancient barn for the backdrop, an antique hay wagon for a gift table and guests were served ice water and lemonade in glass milk bottles with striped paper straws and given homemade huckleberry jam as wedding favors. It was really quite perfect, right down to her color scheme of yellow and grey with a pop of turquoise.

I, of course, had to make her a tailor made card. It was hard to live up to all that perfection, but I tried :)

I knew the venue with the old barn and that inspired the use of the fiercely hoarded Gmund woodgrain cardstock. The bridesmaids carried bouquets of yellow wild flowers and that's where the hero arts stamps came in. I added bits of gray in the border and leaves, but I was stumped with the turquoise. I knew I wanted something inn the middle of the flowers, but I didn't want to use bling, and buttons seem too informal. I decided on brads, but didn't have the right colors in all the different sizes I needed. My solution :) Spray paint those bad boys! I poked them into the bottom of a cardboard box, whipped out a can of spray paint in the appropriate color (I keep a small collection of spray paint in my favorite colors, cause you just never know when you might need it) and literally 2 minutes later I was done! They dried really fast too, 'cause it was a hot, dry day.

I love the result!

Supplies:
Cardstock: (white) Georgia-Pacific, (grey, yellow) The Paper Co., (white woodgrain embossed) Gmund, Stamps: (Leaves Cling set, Flowers Cling set, Best Wishes Clear set) Hero Arts, Ink: (harvest) Fresh Ink, (white, Wild Hare) ColorBox, Embossing Powder: (white) American Crafts, Brads: (Bazzill, Karen Foster, American Crafts, Making Memories), Spray Paint: Krylon
Size: 5x7"

Have a wonderful Wednesday!
♥Heidi