Elegant Response to two Challenges

This card fulfills the challenge over on The Friday Mashup (http://www.fridaymashup.com/2011/10/fm30-recycle-renew-reuse.html) and Stamping 411's sketch challenge (http://stamping411.blogspot.com/2011/10/saturday-sketch-challenge-227.html). {My computer won't let me make the links... sorry!} Anyway... over on The Friday Mashup, the challenge is to recycle, renew, and reuse, and I can't wait to tell you this story! My husband and I got a wedding invitation to our niece's wedding. I kept her wedding invitation because I thought it would be so cool to to create a wedding card for her by using her wedding invitation... so that's what I did! I started with a base of Very Vanilla. Then I used one of the flaps from her wedding invite. It's this gold embossed floral, swirly thing... very elegant, very pretty. Then, I used a ribbon that my friend Susan's brother's friend gave to Susan, who shared it with me (did you follow that?). I used the Congratulations stamp, punched it out, and then I punched out more of the wedding invite to put behind that, and I know that's really hard to see in this picture. Sorry! I used Dawn O.'s great tutorial for the bunny ear bow to make this bow. Oh! I also colored in the skinny oval around the congratulations with Soft Suede.

Thanks for looking!