Oilers Themed “Happily Ever After”

Hello, today I’m sharing a card that was an extra special request. The recipients will be celebrating a milestone anniversary and apparently they are huge Edmonton Oilers fans. So I had the dilemma, how to make a pretty card with a hockey theme. I’m glad she gave me lots of notice, because honestly I was kind of stumped. But in the end this is what I came up with.

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I thought the best way to combine the orange, blue and white colours would be to have them in flowers (flower links will be at bottom of the post) and I decided to add them to the Arch Pop Up. I want the flowers to have some depth so I diecut the blue flowers from a light blue cardstock. I originally just used 2 darker shades of alcohol markers then added white Gelly roll highlights. I then decided to add a little bit of navy blue.

The orange flowers were also cut from a lighter shade of orange and used 2 darker shades of orange and white pen highlights. For the white flowers I used grey alcohol markers to add shading, with blue dotted centers.

I cut the cardbase and layers as shown. I cut the centers out of the blue and I also embossed the white panels with swirls(retired Stampin up but any swirls will do), and assembled as shown.

I cut out the pieces from the Arch Pop up (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) , and thought I’d try something but didn’t think it through so I had to fix it on the fly. I cut the solid arch from the Rainbow Add On and thought I would put it on the backside of the arch to cover the slots BUT I added it before I added it to the card so the slots were now unusable 🤦🏻‍♀️ so I just used glue and glued the little tabs exactly where they would go if the went through the slots, I only had to do this for the front arms because I did not add any of the other arms.

It was also requested to have Oilers jerseys on the happy couple soooo I had to fussy cut and draw them. I used the coat from Santa and Gnomes set and trimmed as shown. I used a white gel pen to add the white lines. To make the jersey fit the Paper People body I had to cut the arms off the person and add them to the jersey and then add the jersey to the person. I wanted him to be covered front and back because when opening and closing the card, you see glimpses of the back.

I decided to make the lady a little smaller so I narrowed up the jersey a bit and cut out a bit of her middle and I assembled her the same as the first character. Originally I made her a stripped skirt but decided that I didn’t love it so I changed it to a white skirt.

I made a large vase using the popcorn bucket from the Movie Night Charms and added the flowers. I also added the flowers to the arch then the vase to the left arm. I added the couple to the right arm. I cut the frame using the pieces from the Whirly Wheel.

I diecut Happily Ever After twice from blue and orange and layered. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen. I made a matching border and wrapped it in a white ribbon, with a knot bow. I added the border and some matching flowers. Then some itty bitty gems around the flowers and the arch to finish it off