Some of you may recall the Wedding Sweet Invitations I shared with you during a blog tour a couple months back. It turns out that I was asked to make this design for a family member’s wedding.
The tricky part is that approximately 40 of the invitations need to be mailed overseas. So we’ve come up with a simple variation for the overseas invitations, they will not have ribbon, simply a strip of Bashful Blue cardstock making them simple and light.
I thought I’d share these with you as a sample of how projects can be changed up to fit certain circumstances. I’m also showing them because if I’m not stamping the Vintage Vogue cards I showed you yesterday, I’m stamping these. I found out today that I need to have 40 of them made, mailed and in New York by Saturday of this week. Think I can get everything done? I’m starting to wonder if my sanity will hold through the week! Anyone want to help?
You’re probably starting to think I’m totally stuck on wedding projects right now. I promise you, I will move on soon, however, I wanted to share one of the cards we made at the Brides & Babies card class last night.
Razzle Dazzle, Medallion & Teeny tiny Wishes
The class last evening made this lovely card. Unfortunately I cannot take credit for the design, another stamper named Heather was the original creator. It’s great and I couldn’t think of any way I wanted to change it.
The Razzle Dazzle stamp set is one of those I got and then never found myself using the set. When I saw this card, however, I thought it was perfect! Of course you probably recognize the Medallion stamp set by now as I use it a lot and “For the Newlyweds” is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes. The three small Rhinestone brads set it off perfectly.
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I’m a little late getting my10 minute challenge posted this week. I made the project on Wednesday (early!!!) but with the blog tour I put off posting it.
The picture above was our challenge. We were told to look at this picture and create what came to mind from the picture. My mind was in wedding mode, due to the Blog Tour theme (see the last three posts) so my inspiration went in that direction. I saw that big fluffly flowery looking cushion and went from there.
Ready, Set, Go!
I’m ready! Did I happen to mention that the 10 minute challenge only pertains to cards? If you decide to make a scrapbook page you have 20 minutes and if you decide to make a 3-D item you have 30 minutes. I was headed for a 3-D item but didn’t want to spend anywhere near 30 minutes, 10 minutes was still sounding really good. Go!
Very Vanilla circles
I used the Stampin’ Up! 1″ Circle Punch to punch out a bunch of Very Vanilla circles and then the 1 1/4″ Circle Punch to punch out one circle. After I punched out the circles I wrapped the 1″ circles around a stylus to give them a curve as you see here.
Starting my flower
I put some Sticky Strip on the 1 1/4″ circle and started adhering the 1″ circles around the edges of the 1 1/4″ circle. After the first layer of petals were attached I added some more sticky strip and then another layer and so on.
Circle Punch Flower
Here’s the flower with all the layers on it. the next step was to add another little piece of sticky strip (or you could use some crystal effects, I didn’t have time for that!) and added a vanilla pearl from the Pretties Kit right in the center of the flower.
Cracker Barrel Syrup Bottle
I know someone who brings me her syrup bottles from Cracker Barrel. I wrapped a piece of Very Vanilla satin ribbon around the bottle and adhered it with Sticky Strip. Just a little more to go and the project will be finished. How long do you think it took??
Done!
Whew! Less than 10 minutes, just a little over 7 in fact! Do you want to see the finished project?
It's a bud vase!
I made a little bud vase! Did you notice that it matches the wedding favor I showed you the other day with the super elegant wedding invitation and stationary? I think this cute bud vase could be cute in the middle of a round table at a wedding reception with a single, beautiful flower in it. Another idea would be to have a neutral colored table cloth, put a table runner down the middle of the table, which matches the wedding colors, and then have some of these handmade paper flowers (not attached to anything) sprinkled along the runner.
Bud vase
Here’s a close up of the vase. I love these little syrup bottles because they have a cute design molded into them. (My husband loves them because they contain real Maple Syrup!!)
These flowers are so easy to make and you saw that they don’t take much time. Are you ready to try making one of your own? Thank you for stopping by to visit! I hope you’ll take a minute to leave a comment!
Welcome to the last day of the blog tour! Today’s set of wedding stationary was made using the stamp set called A Rose is a Rose which is a 2-step stamping set. Two step stamping can be so much fun and gives so much dimension to your stamped image.
Wedding Invitation
Here’s is the wedding invitation. It’s very simple in style but does take a little work to stamp each individual leaf and flower (twice). The colors I used are Bravo Burgundy, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke.
Wedding Response Card
For this response card I printed the wording in the upper right corner so there would be plenty of room to stamp the roses.
Wedding Place Card
Keeping with the simple style I used the rose bud stamps only for the place card. These would have been some huge place cards if I tried to use the full rose!
Wedding Note Cards
Here are the note cards I made to match the rest of the stationary. I decided to make the card without any sentiment, that would allow it to be used as communication to wedding attendants, shower thank yous, wedding thank yous and more.
Wedding Favor Box
Here is the matching favor. It is much like yesterdays, I just didn’t stamp on the box.
This blog tour was a bit of a challenge for me. Normally I get the items made just hours before posting them each day. This time, however, I had to work ahead and get everything done be Wednesday afternoon so I could go out of town. Whew! (I said all that to let you know why there wasn’t a whole lot of variety in the favor designs.)
I hope you have enjoyed the blog tour! Your comments have been so sweet! Please don’t forget to go visit Jannette Shaw as your next stop on the tour!
Welcome to day 2 of the Special Occasions Blog Tour! I want to share another Wedding Invitation and corresponding wedding stationary. You’ll notice that I’m using Very Vanilla again for this set. There are two reasons for this, first because I have a bride that wants Very Vanilla and second, because it’s a little easier [...]
Welcome to day 1 of the Special Occasions Blog tour! We’re sharing ideas for some of those extra special occasions in life. I personally have decided to focus on weddings during the tour. (The fact that I had a family member ask me to design and make their wedding invitations certainly helped with that decision!) [...]
I was asked to come up with some wedding invitation samples the other day. I thought I would go ahead and share this one with you because I like it so much! (I don’t think the bride will mind as it’s nothing like the final invitation will look like.) I wish it wasn’t so hard [...]
I totally forgot to show you this box I made before going on vacation. What was I thinking? I wanted to give a set of cards as part of a wedding shower gift and I thought I’d make a box to put them in. The base of the box is made out of Brushed Gold [...]
