I love the elegance of a vellum overlay and try to incorporate them as often as I can into my cardmaking. For this example, you will need a 4.25 x 5.5 ivory card base and a 4 x 5.25 piece of vellum.
The first thing I like to do when working with vellum is to lay out my stamps so I get a good feel for positioning and fit. It wouldn't be so much fun to get half way through a project and find there isn't space for the sentiment you had picked out! What better use of a vellum overlay than a wedding card? I thought this would be a nice example for our celebration challenge this week!
I then stamped the cake and the cake stand into the center of the piece of vellum where I know I left room for both sentiments.
Doing a final alignment of the text stamps here. Make sure they fit underneath the vellum and that there's even spacing around the cake.
Now I stamp the card base with both sentiments in black ink so they will show through the vellum nicely. I've adhered the vellum overlay with special vellum adhesive. Believe it or not, it really doesn't show through! I've adhered pearls to the cake for some extra pizazz.
The final step for this wedding card was to add a black satin ribbon threaded through the card fold. I punched two holes in the card and then tied it in a big bow. 
I hope this has encouraged you to give vellum a try! It doesn't take a lot of effort to make something that looks quite special!
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Happy Saturday! Today I've got a card that I made for this week's sketch over at 
I went for a birthday theme using bright colors and some fantastic patterned papers. I cut out a label #4 die cut and then stamped it using a sentiment from Say it Loud. I edged the die cut with some glitter glue for some extra punch. I finished the card with a coordinating bow.
The first step is to thread an embroidery needle with as many strands of embroidery floss as you like. I typically use 3 or 4 but sometimes it is whatever I can see to separate. :) Thread the needle through your paper at whatever spot you'd like. I typically use these knots as little buds but they'd be great in a bunch as flower centers or snowflakes, little apples, whatever you'd like them to be!
Once you've pulled the thread through the paper, wrap the thread around the needle about 3 times. As with the number of strands you choose, the number of times you wrap the thread will end up being the size of your knots. 
Once you've wrapped the needle, stick it back into the cardstock but don't pull through yet.
Slide the wrapped thread to the bottom of the needle and hold tightly while you push the needle through the paper.
I encourage you to give it a try or have some fun with something else you haven't tried before. Sometimes you'll be amazed that it really isn't as hard as it seems. :)
