Wedding Invitations

I have made two lots of wedding invites already this year, 53 of these and 80 almost identical invites with just the flower being a rose bud instead of an open rose, the colour and size were the same.  Both were for friends for weddings in August and December of this year.  I supplied them with the ribbon untied so that it didn't get too creased and left it up to them to "tie the knot" and trim after they had written inside.

A6 gate fold white pearlescent card with white pearlescent paper insert.  The paper roses were glued on and the gold hearts are an old "docraft" stamp and I used gold embossing powder on this.  Simple, but effective I think.  Both parties were very pleased with them, so that was good enough for me.

I have been crafting......honestly

It's a whole year since I last blogged and I feel so ashamed that I haven't got around to putting my stuff on here.  It also means that I have a lot of blogs to visit too. Anyway here are a few things that I have been up to the past year.

My friend asked me to make her a couple of hair clips for her holiday, this is one of them.  Very easy to make, just cut five or six rounds of organza of slightly different sizes.  Hold each piece individually down on a heat-proof surface (I used a chop stick) and carefully burn/melt the edges with your heat gun to make the edges shrivel slightly.  You can use a candle flame, but I always use the heat gun.  Arrange pieces, pin through all layers and sew right through all layers, then shape it to how you want it and secure with one or two stiches.  Sew on required embellishments and then either a comb or brooch pin.  Eazy Peazy!  I did make two, but didn't photograph the other one, maybe she will give me a photo of her wearing it.

My friend's Son gets married in two weeks and between us we made the wedding invitations, order of service, seating plan and place settings, I am going to the wedding so will take a photo of the tables and the seating plan on the day.  I introduced my friend to card-making and she very quickly got hooked (didn't we all), so much so that she ended up making wedding invites for her friend's daughter.  I must admit I did all the cutting and showed Sue what to do and she ended up doing most of the work, which she found very relaxing.  The photo isn't very good as I took it with my phone, never mind.

I love to craft in the garden when I can, usually sewing.

Some sad news, my brother-in-law died very recently and my Sister suggested that she gives me his silk ties to see what I can make from them as she knows that I use very small pieces of material on some of my projects.  I then proceeded to get some ideas on the Internet and was amazed at the amount of people that do this, rugs, dresses, bags, you name it, I found it.  So I am looking forward to receiving these and making them into some lovely things for my sister.  I will of course post these on here.  

I am on two workshops next month for machine embroidery and hand sewing with mixed media, so looking forward to it as I haven't been to a class either for a year.  It is a friend of mine that is the tutor and I think it will be great.

Bye for now, have a great day and I look forward to visiting a few of your blogs, I have a lot to catch up on.

Carol x

Two More Weddings!

It has been the year for weddings for us, five wedding invitations, but two we couldn't make. This card is for Jon and Emer who get married on Friday, I made their wedding invitations for them back in May and now their big day is upon us.

The second card is for Martyn and Alina who originally got married in Russia and have come over to England for their honeymoon and a church blessing, which sadly we couldn't make as it clashed with a family wedding.

I dug out an old stamp by Docrafts, which I embossed with gold and stuck some pearl gems on. Out of all my wedding/romance stamps I think that this one is my favourite.

Hannah and Lyndon's Wedding

Another wedding, we seem to have our fair share of them this summer - this one is in Cornwall so looking forward to taking the trip down and meeting up with family. Inked up the background on ivory pearlescent card and embossed the hearts & script stamp (an old Anita's stamp). It's always important to get a good photo of your work, but I don't seem to be achieving this just lately and the problem with anything shiny is you always get a reflection. so I took this one from above. Anyway I hope it is good enough for you to see the card. I have taken a photo of the centre so it can be seen a bit better.

Wedding

Going to a wedding reception tonight and the colours are black and cream, I know that black is very fashionable at the moment so decided to link the colour theme into my card for Mat and Vicky, hopefully I have got it right. Also decided to go along with the design of my recent wedding invitations that I made for Jon and Emer's wedding this coming August, but used a paper flower instead of a pressed, dried rose.

I gold embossed the script onto black card and punched the heart out so it would show up the gold card behend and really like the effect.

This shot shows the card that Janette made for me on my birthday and particularly shows up the lovely glossy accents used on her drawing, so I thought I would include it on this post.

Wedding invitations

I'm on the home stretch now, just got a little to do now....hopefully will finish tonight! These are wedding invitations for our friend's wedding, hope they like!Not great photos I know, but gives you an idea of how they look, a little bit pale and the gold embossing is a bit dull. The flower is very pretty, it is a dried miniature rose.

I'm on the home stretch now, just got a little to do now....hopefully will finish tonight! These are wedding invitations for our friend's wedding, hope they like! Andy is going to see if he can get a better photo with his camera.......and here it is: -

wedding invitations

Yesterday I finally made a start on some designs for our friend's wedding invitations. They have chosen the colour scheme, approved the dried flower and chosen the stamp for the cards, so now up to me to come up with some brilliant designs for them to chose from. I have been racking my brains to try and give them a guide to chose from and thought I would only need to create about four different designs, but I am finding that I am not happy yet, so why should they be so I will soldier on and create more. Anyway....these are what I have done so far, they are only rough and I know it's their choice ultimately, but I can't offer them something I don't even like very much myself now can I.

Weekend away

Well, really enjoyed our weekend away to see Janette and Neil reaffirming their wedding vows. Got back last night after taking one or two detours to Bronte Country (Haworth) and Hull, just so we could drive over the Humber Bridge because we never have, that's how mad we both are! Didn't get home until 22:30, so only ten hours travelling......hmmmmm

I made the above card for Janette and Neil for their special day.

and.....the one below for Janette's Mum to hand to them.

Janette and Neil looked really nice on the day and it seems that Jamie, their eight year old son was acting as Best Man, keeping hold of the rings safely!