Wedding Announcements

 Last Week I finally mailed the 400 invites I sent. By Now I figure they should have made it to there destinations.  Since the first  Present arrived at our home yesterday i decided it was safe to reveal them...

The colors are Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum , and Elegant Eggplant.  the Base  is a Cream cover stock from Staples.  I used my old SU discontinued triple floral punch, I cant remember the name of the punch but it went with the "Looks Like Spring" stamp set.  I embossed with Cuttlebug's Musical Flourish embossing folder, and  Punched the panel with Martha Stewart's "Wildflower" Corner and Border Punches.  the rhinestones were bought at Micheal's and they are Recollections rhinestone ribbon in light purple. 



All the pieces were made to pull out.
the announcement info on the pull out, the back side was matted and had reception and registration info on it. after was a separate invite to the ceremony mounted on Rich Razzelberry...I used the large 5 petal flower punch and a 1/2" circle punch to dress up these and then the picture in the back.

The champagne ribbon was an after Christmas clearance item form Michaels.

Until later...Happy Stamping!

I Made Some Fun Cards Again

I got to make a bunch of cards(13 to be exact) tuesday night with my friend at Dawn Olchefski's Card Buffet...love going,visiting, making cards and catching up on my stash. It was so fun to make something other than a Wedding announcement, or decoration!

The wedding announcements are all ready to put in the mail next week so I should be making a post soon...my Daughter and her  Fiance really liked them when they finally saw them in real life...
Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Baby & Birthday Giraffe

I have been very busy!

 On Valentines my son in law called and told me they couldn't find a heart beat at their Dr. Appt. on Valentines Day.   It was 9 days before her due date so  pretty traumatic and unexpected.   So I headed out to UT immediately.   My Husband flew in later for a graveside service for my little  Granddaughter Anna.   We are all very sorry she can't be here with us, and we are all very heart broken for my Daughter and her Husband.

 

When I got back from out of town, I brought the paper back for the invites, I started making the 400 announcements for my daughters wedding in May.  I will post a better picture after they hit the mail.  but I took this one so you could have a Sneak Peek so to speak.  They are one page sliders, I am really pleased with my design and how they have turned out.

Today I finished the cards I started on the 12th of Feb.  These little giraffes waited for nearly a month to find a home on the base of these cards.

My little  niece will be happy to finally get her birthday Card in the mail.  A friends baby gift  has been waiting for this little Welcome baby card also.

For links and directions how to punch this cute little giraffe read this post on Wendy's Blog...

Until later...Happy Stamping!

Struggles on The Open Sea

The title sounds like a great book to read, but not so fun evening of card making! I don't know what it is, maybe too much working on the wedding, stress, or what have you, having to sit down to make a masculine birthday card was a monumental task.  This card took forever to design and create!

I used the stash to create this card but I believe SU Real Red, SU Chocolate Chip and GP White card stock were used.   I used Early Espresso ink to stamp the images and sentiment from Something to Celebrate, and The Open Sea.  I used Mosaic  Cuttlebug folder to emboss, and several SU punches,  namely Large Oval, Designer Label and Decorative Label.   I stamped a lot of other images and used more punches with them...I intended to make a series of 3 cards.   I think I was trying to hard...or just plain old rusty, but  one card is all I got!   SU bakers twine was a finishing touch.

Hope you enjoy it I still haven't decided if I like it yet... I guess I like it enough to post today last night not sure...Until Later... Happy Stamping!

More Wedding Projects

SO I have been busy as usual working on things I cant show you until April.  But after I finished the part I can do now, I managed to start another project...

DD's Bouquet

When My DD's get married I search the internet frantically for deals and inspiration to help me come up with a theme to go with my child and the wedding colors...In the searching this time I came across some paper rose garlands that cost about 20+ $'s for a 6' length...very expensive when you are coming up with decorating a big hall. I decided I could make some garlands myself so I ordered floral tape and wire online...Love AFLORAL for this  I always get my flowers for bouquet, boutineers and corsages from them..and a few to mix in for centerpieces and decorating.  Their flowers are a high quality, real looking silks... However I have a hard time spending big bucks on flowers to decorate a whole room.  SO I prayed about it alot and one day I had inspiration...We have hung white lights on the ceiling before nice lighting effect but a little bland...My white light source moved away, but MY new light source had lights with green wires, and in my want to make the green light cording more acceptable my inspiration came...  make your own garlands with the green wired lights.  I ordered  bulk Purple tissue paper on Amazon from  Buttons, Bags and Bows ...I got colors to go with her bouquet.  I  start fiddling with dies and things to make the flowers...the tissues proved too thin..they cut well but did not work for what I had in mind. Ultimately I did the old grade school fan fold and tore it in half and then used floral tape to attach it around every other light.

My daughter saw me attaching flowers and said gee that looks great, where did that Idea come from?... you should do a blog post...since she has never made an observation like that before  I decided to do a post.  I plan to dress them up more but I have to go in stages because I cant be over working at the end. So for right now I am only doing one color per strand.   I will be making 8-10 strands, so if I want to  I might add some green tissue leaves or add some more flowers in a different shade of purple. So for this DIY mom I will have roughly 650' of garland with lights to use in decorating..for the same price as buying 1-6' unlighted piece... In May I promise to post a picture of the finished product decorating my DD reception.  I love when inspiration works in my favor!
Until later ...Happy Stamping!

PS ...I do plan on making a nice paper one for decorating some lattice that will be more visually close to peoples eyes...if  I manage to have enough time I will post them after I make them.

Chocolate Cake Card!

This last week was very busy..I worked on getting a few odds and ends projects out of the way that I have been meaning to do for awhile.

When the F4A101 challenge was posted last Friday on SCS I imediately thought of chocolate roses and chocolate frosting on a Chocolate cake.  one day I will get to have some again but right now I am dieting and trying my best to get all the unhealthy excess fat off my body, so I guess a paper cake would have to do.  I also wanted to do the sketch challenge, SC367,  so I combined the two...imagine if you will  the center chocolate chip card sotck strip as the chocolate cake!

Still loving my Big Shot, I used my Musical Flourish, and Swiss Dots Cuttlebug EF's for the base pieces.  The roses were made using my SU Scalloped Circle Punch, and spiral cutting it, then rolling it up and tweaking it until it looked like a rose.
Since I was having glue dot issues I used 5mm sticker pearls by The Paper Studio in the centers.
the very vanilla Seam binding ribbon was the perfect touch to finish off the card.  The SU Designer Label punch was used twice once with Crumb Cake and once in Chocolate Chip to add the little shadow at the bottom, and since I made 2  the other side was used for a duplicate card.  The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations  a long time SU favorite.
the embossed background  card stock is SU Crumb Cake, with  my base a Staple's Cream cover stock.

I hope you enjoyed it!...until later Happy Stamping!

Hi I have been trying my best to keep up with post despite working on 400 invites I cant show you until Mid April.

Today I finished embossing the invites so I grabbed the same embossing folder and made a card to use for SU TLC361.

Wendy had red the challenge to me over Skype last night why I was embossing so with out looking I did what she said and this is the card I came up with.

I used scrap pieces of Cream Staples cover stock that I am using for the invites. I used it as the stamped and embossed and base of the card. The black is Embassy card stock I picked up at Wal-mart a while back. I embossed with River Rock on the negative space of the Victoria Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The ribbon is left over from the 400 invites I did 2 years ago.  So you see I have been using my stash proudly.  The black label is a Sizzix Label,Orante#4, I have been waiting to use that. The sentiment was stamped with Jet Black StazOn ink and punched out using SU: Decorative label punch.

Hope you like it!  Until Later... Happy Stamping!