The making of the card

This is the making of AE's wedding card.






First one night while in the D.C. area for a conference, she sat in my car and sketched the picture in her head.

















I spent lots of time then playing with clipart to figure out how to do the image. AE & B gave me feedback to guide me, including this image of a fossilized shell to make a super cool sun.





After A LOT of fussing about (as I do) I finally came up with a draft of the card including their new dog and four three cats.
























Now it was time to carve the stamp. This part is both tedious and potentially painful if you gouge yourself which I invariably do if I don't wear gloves.



And once the stamp was carved- the fun part! AE came over one weekend to make the cards with me, choosing the colors and application.


My favorite part is seeing them toward the end, all together. My little 5-year-old heart swells at the beauty. The soft colors swirling together in perfect little images.

They looked even nicer once she added the internal text, and slid them into their lovely green envelopes. I'm afraid these photos still don't do them justice really. Imagine soft lights and fairy dust, sunlight glinting off the gold outline of the image, radiating love. That's how they look up close in person- to me anyway.

I believe I have some other photos of them laid out side by side, but that's on another undeveloped roll of film, which also contains cherry blossoms in an overcast sky. This film-camera thing really is a bummer. I realize by the time I develop the film, it costs enough I really should save that money to buy a digital camera. In time.

But that's the story of the card, for my posterity and hers, and a window into how I do this thing I do that makes me so happy.

Congratulations Rel & B! Can't wait to stand there with you and celebrate your beautiful union. :)