We made a wedding card for one of our Fancy Fold cards recently using the Wonderful Moments stamp set. It really turned out nice! I recently taught this fold in our Tech Club as well. Continue reading
Wedding Shower Invitations & Favors
I took some time yesterday to sit down and create some handmade bridal shower favors I've been wanting to create. I still love using the retired To Have and to Hold stamp set from several years back. It's a favorite! I used it recently on some Tea for Two packets I sold to someone and I wanted to pull it out again with black and white and a splash of Cherry Cobbler. Here's a close up of one of the packets with the bride and groom. It's hard to tell, but I used a Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Write Marker to color in the flowers in the bridal bouquet, the flower in her hair and the grooms Continue reading
Stampin’ Up! Library Display – Wedding
I have been working hard this week on a new display at the Mason Dixon Library in Stewartstown, PA. The display consists of three glassed in cases. I wanted to share pictures of one of the three displays today. This is my new wedding display! I set it up to showcase three different sets of handmade Wedding Stationary as well as some handmade cards you would give for a wedding or wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, it's not possible to get a picture without glass covering at least half of the display so you'll have to put up with the flash reflection. Here's a closer look. I Continue reading
Variations of Handmade Wedding Invitations
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 Continue reading
Medallion & Razzle Dazzle Wedding Card
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. 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! Continue reading
10 Minute Wedding Favor Challenge
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. I'm ready! Did I happen to mention that the 10 minute challenge only pertains to cards? If you decide to make a scrapbook Continue reading
A Rose is a Rose Wedding Stationary
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. 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. For this response card I printed the wording in the upper right corner so there would be plenty of Continue reading
Handmade Wedding Invitation with Wedding Sweet
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 for me to photograph than white. Naturally, all of the items I'm showing you could very easily be changed to Whisper White and the other colors could easily be changed as well. Once again the wedding invitation is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" but this time I turned it around for the Continue reading
Handmade Wedding Invitations & Stationary
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 thought it would be nice to create coordinating pieces, afterall, there is more to the printing for a wedding than just the invitation so it might as well all match! Here is the invitation. This is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" in size. The Very Vanilla Satin ribbon really makes this Continue reading
Handmade & Handstamped Wedding Invitation
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 to photograph but with all the white it gets a bit difficult! The invitation is 9 1/4" x 4" in size so it will fit a #10 size envelope (business size to most of us). I used clear rhinestone brads at the top of the invitation to hold the two sheets together. Half pearls look very pretty there as well, however, they Continue reading
Handmade Box of Hand-stamped Cards
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 Cardstock on which I stamped the large swirly from the Wedding Sweet stamp set using Gold Encore Ink. For the top of the box I used an overhead transparency so the lid is transparent. The cards are very simple and yet elegant. It's not very often that I make cards without any layers but this is one of those times. The cards are Whisper White Continue reading
A Wedding Card with an Insert
Here is another wedding card I made in the past. I used the To Have and to Hold stamp set along with Together Forever to make this card. A few of the items you see here are retired such as the DSP, the To Have and to Hold stamp set and the heart stamp which is from the Merci stamp set. Below is another picture of what the insert looks like. Continue reading