Wedding Card

A friend of ours from church was married in Ireland over the summer.  She is returning home to receive a blessing in our church, so I have made her a card for the day.

One of the benefits of attending a blessing after the wedding, is that I saw photos of the bride and groom on their big day, this gave me ideas for making the card.

I wanted to spotlight stamp sunflowers, but didn't have a suitable stamp set.  Once I searched through my stamp stash, I found a set of daisies by Altenew which would look like sunflowers once coloured in yellow and orange.

After background stamping with the 'sunflowers', I die cut her new name using the Altenew Big Alphabet die set, and only coloured the letters of the name. The 'Mr and Mrs' comes from a Sizzix set.

 I added a few gold sequins to complete the card, along with a nice Anna Griffin sentiment inside.

Updo

A page about the lovely hairdo of my friend at her January wedding. My friend is very sporty, so it was lovely to see her looking so glamorous on her big day.

I love the birds in the Paradise Crush papers, it took a long time to cut them out (I spent a whole afternoon in front of the TV with scissors in hand!), but now I have a bag full of birds, butterflies and flowers ready for the next time I use this paper pad.

The background papers are mostly Anna Griffin, but I added a tropical touch with lots of embellishments cut from Paradise Crush Dovecraft papers. 

The 'lovely' detail is die cut from rose gold card using an Ali Edwards die. Only got a few wedding layouts to make for my scrapbook now.

Another wedding layout.

The venue for my friend's wedding back in January was absolutely lovely, a Victorian orangery within a Leicestershire hotel.

I took a good few photos of the venue, making this page with the same details as the other wedding ages, to tie all the designs together.

The background papers are Anna Griffin, as are the floral embellishments.
 

The diamond is die cut from rose gold card, along with the roses and the title. It will make a nice facing page for the cutting the cake page in my album.

Winter Wedding

Another layout about my friend's wedding back in January at a beautiful Victorian country house which is now a hotel.

To make the layout quite traditional I used Anna Griffin papers and a piece of a 12x12 die cut which was reminiscent of the window panes in the orangery where the marriage took place and the celebration afterwards.

I have had the architectural plan paper for ages, it was good to get it onto a layout; I have a piece left for another page too.

The title is cut from fun foam with the Xcut script dies in black so it stands out.  The die cut flowers are all by Anna Griffin, as is the journalling card and chalkboard sentiment.

I added the month with a Tim Holtz die cut in rose gold card, along with a few stitched tickets and tags by XCut and Lawn Fawn.

Cutting the Cake

A friend of mine married just after the New year this year; it was a lovely way to start the miserable month of January.

The wedding was a fabulous affair, the whole event took over a Leicestershire Hotel, the restored Victorian Kilworth House, As Kevin and I are in our fifties, it is many years since we have been to a wedding, especially of someone the same age as us. It was wonderful to see that glow of happiness surrounding not only the bride and groom, but everyone at the wedding.  It was truly a beautiful wedding.

I inevitably took lots of photos, and these were taken in the orangery where the ceremony, meal, speeches and dancing all took place.

I used some very old stash to make this layout, mostly by Anna Griffin which seemed to be ideal for a wedding layout. I recently ordered some rose gold cardstock from the Tonic  Craft Perfect selection.  I love this way of buying card, you can pick from a wide range of colours in the size (A4 or 12x12) and finish you want.

I think I will be buying some 12x12 backing card too.  I cut the title using X cut script dies, and the gold roses were cut using a free Tonic die I was sent by Hochanda.

I am looking forward to making more wedding pages from the rest of my photos of this beautiful venue.

A Fresh Start

My lovely teacher friend (now retired) married earlier this month, and although it wasn't on the first, I thought her wedding made a perfect theme for the idea of a fresh start.

As they love to travel I used some suitcases cut from Shimelle's Go Now Go papers and a real mix of various papers and embellishments.

A Woodland Wedding

The daughter of a good friend of ours, that we have known for over 30 years, gets married today.  She is the first of her generation among our friends to marry, the same generation as my own children.

Claire and Marc are marrying in the woods, close to dusk; their 'reception' will be around a large open camp fire and guests will camp under canvas among the trees.

Sadly, we will be returning from holiday on the day of the wedding, so will be unable to join them.

 Kevin made a special ring box in the shape of an acorn, and I made a card stamped with Altenew daisies.

Vintage Wedding Photos

Back in the 1960's my Dad was best man for his brother at his wedding in South East London.

 

 I used Graphic 45 papers to match the vintage photos, some lace and words cut from Project Life cards.

I added cream animal dots after photographing for that finishing touch!

A Wedding Card

Ashling was a young child when I first started singing in the folk group at church, and today she gets married in our church... and Kev and I are singing a solo (Eeeek!) Just hope we get it right.

Here is the card I made for the occasion, Papermania Vintage Notes papers.

70s style

This is a page I made at a retreat back in November but only just got around to photographing. The photo is of Kevin's Aunt and Uncle on their wedding day, he and his brothers were all altar servers at the Mass.

They look soooo happy to be there!

All the kit was one I recieved in a lucky dip at the retreat, it wouldn't have been my choice of papers etc, but they go well with the 70s photo.

Title and scroll are cut using Sizzix.

Made some changes to my blog design, having not altered the title photo since I set it up back in 2008. Not sure whether I prefer the former alliums photo, or the digi scrapbook style I've added (at great expense to my nerves!!!!)

Summer Lovin'

Here's the last page I've made about my friend's wedding this summer.

A really quick LO made at a crop last month, still loving the Kraft cardstock (this ledger one by Papermania) along with the patterned paper which seemed perfect for a wedding page.

Looking forward to the weekend, just can't believe how hot it is, got into the car today and the dash read 29 degrees, at the end of September that's unheard of.

A Wedding Gift

I didn't give Michelle and Rich a gift on the day of their wedding, but waited to take some photos and made them an altered canvas as a present.

The canvas was a very inexpensive one (think pound shop!)

and I started by simple obliterating the original design using a couple of coats of acrylic paint. The design around the edges was stamped using a Martha Stewart Stamp around the page set, then I stamped the edges of the canvas too with various words.

One of the reasons I love canvases is that I don't have to worry about the 3D parts getting squashed, or about keeping to the size so they fit in a scrapbook. With this in mind I went a bit mad with Amy Butler papers and a few Sizzix dies to make the flowers, swirls and journalling block.

The swirl top left is grungeboard, inked

and then heat embossed with a glittery embossing powder.

I added an old Making Memories metal book plate some Beadazzles to the flowers, attached everything with a hot glue gun for longevity, job done!

I'm glad to say they both really loved it :)

Supplies;

Acrylic paint cream

Sizzix dies Extended dies: Swirl, Antique Market alphabet: rosette flowers (small).

Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Florals

Nestabilities Label 1.

Martha Stewart Stamp around the page.

Tim Holtz grungeboard swirl.

Ink Stampin' Up turquoise.

Beadazzles Silver

First day back at work with the kids done.... they were really well behaved and hard working... long may it last :D

Hen Party

Looking at this page this hen party seems a long time ago now; my friend posted today on fb that she has just returned from her honeymoon.

This page shows us messing about prior to the big day back in May on a surprise Hen afternoon.

I used Amy Butler papers, stitched around the edges, stamped the tickets and the birdie.

The star stitches at the top were made using the WRMK Sew Easy tool, a really handy piece of kit.

The day involved eating, playing games, designing wedding dresses using lots of paper towels, sellotape, dust masks etc etc, and a fair few drinking forfeits :)

A Wedding Page

I've been quick to scrap one of Saturday's photos as i like it so much, and it met the challenge this week on UKS. I had to use a celebration, and this seemed ideal, had I not had the challenge I don't think I would have one for blcak, but I am really happy with the page. I also used some new stash (the embossed Core'dinations cardstock) and some old (the flowers, chipboard, and metal frame.)

Took Hannah up to Derby yesterday to see her rented student house, it is identical to one I had in Nottingham as a fresher back in 1982, but much more up to date. We had no central heating, no fridge, lots of orange gloss paint (a job lot I think) and the occasional rodent visitor! No photos alas :)

The best thing about it though, is that it is a 2 minute walk form Derby City Centre, with a lovely little craft shop en route!!

Wedding day

A lovely friend of mine from work got married yesterday, the weather held off, the service was beautiful, and a great day was had by all.

She had cupcakes instead of a traditional wedding cake, so I used this to make her wedding card. And they fly off to the other side of the world for a 3 week honeymoon later today... lucky pair!

Not more Bunting?

As I looked at my photos taken on Friday, I remembered that i had kept the scraps from my bunting make in the bottom of my sewing box... well they were bound to come in handy for something weren't they?
So what better for a page about the Royal Wedding, than a set of mini bunting made from my leftover gingham? It took me ages to decide which papers to use, I didn't really want to go with the traditional red, white and blue, but after a good search through a ridiculous amount of stash, vintage papers, with bunting and a bit of stamping seemed to be the way to go. Supplies:

Papermania kraft ledger card
Tim Holtz papers
Stamps, Tim Holtz, Unity
Cosmic Shimmer mists in red and copper

Are you going to record the big day for your scrapbook?

That Royal Wedding

Well, I couldn't post today without mentioning this now could I? I'm not really a royalist (being RC means this proves a bit difficult!) but Hannah has been so interested in this for months now, and her infectious enthusiasm drew (most of) us in :)

We didn't do too much, watched the wedding, ooooed and aaaahed over that dress (similar to my Mums 1960s wedding dress with the satin skirt and lace covered bodice and sleeves) put our bunting to good use and had high tea...... with a lovely cake baked by Kevin, and decorated by Hannah. Kev looks miserable as the only way I could get the photo was to open the french doors and it wasn't too warm today!

Here are some photos from our day

So... did you do anything different for that wedding today?