Wedding Invitations for Shaun and Shell

Hi All!

Yes, I know its been a looooooong time since I last updated the blog but I plan to be back for good now!

Let's get started with my most recent creation. Well actually it was a joint effort with my friend Monica - these are invitations for her son's upcoming wedding. They had the colours already in mind and wanted something simple and elegant and here's what we came up with:

We stamped the rose in Versamark and embossed with Gold Powder. The card is standard size but we sliced about 1cm off the edge and adhere a strip of gold paper that had been punched with the Eyelet Border Punch. This lines up with the edge of the card when its closed.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Sincere Salutations

Inks: Versamark

Paper: Textured White cardstock and gold paper (not from Stampin Up)

Accessories: Gold Ribbon (not from Stampin Up), Gold Embossing Powder

Tools: Heat Tool, Eyelet Border Punch

Well, there you go, my first blog post in many months but hopefully the start of a more regularly updated blog. I also have a new camera (Canon G11) so it will be interesting to learn how to get some nice shots on it and hopefully you will notice the difference as I start to improve my photography skills.

Hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Years. I'll be back tomorrow with some shots of the lovely hand made Christmas Cards I received this year. They are really great and I was so impressed with so many of them!

Purple 21st

I recently made invitations for a 21st Birthday Party. The birthday girl is my brother's girlfriend Kate.

Kate wanted a purple party so here's what I came up with for her:





When mass-producing invitations I think it's best to keep it as simple as possible. Punches, wheels, backgrounds stamps, printing on the computer all help with this.

For this invitation I used punches and a background stamp. The most time consuming part was using the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the 21 and the dots around it. Even so, this was still pretty quick to do.

Stamps: Polka Dot Background, Typeset Numbers (retired), Think Happy Thoughts
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Lavendar Lace
Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Lavendar Lace
Tools: 1 and 1/4" circle punch, 1 and 3/8" circle punch, scallop circle punch

Hostess Appreciation Evening

Here are the REAL invitations for the Hostess Appreciation Evening which will be held on Monday 16th July. I hope all the hostesses have received their invitations by now. If not, please let me know!

Stamps: French Script Background, Looks Like Spring
Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Versamark
Papers: Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive
Accessories: Gold Detail Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Spring Bouquet Punch, Mat Pack, Piercing Tool

Hostess Appreciation Invitations

Well I finally got some time last night to make the invitations for my Hostess Appreciation Evening. The invitation in this photo is not the final result. I will post that in a few days, after the hostesses have recieved their invtations - I wouldn't want to spoil their surprise! This one is my first attempt and it wasn't quite right... I wanted to use the Faux Metal techinique like I did on the Masculine Bookmark Card from a previous post, but I realised I would be there forever making multiples. So I went with something different. I also realised that the Elegant Eggplant card base was too plain and needed something more - you'll see in a few days. Anyhow, this is a bit of an idea of what the real ones might be like.