Wedding favours

Hello again - today's finished product is the next step in the Wedding stationery that I have been playing with for a while now.

This week I have completed 85 favours.

These have all been made with lovely Anna Marie kraft card.  Each favour is a 6" strip that has been scored several times to create a little pocket that holds a mini pack of love hearts - these are fab and as well as 'just married' on them have the couples name and a little message including the wedding date.

The card strips have been stamped with a now retired SU stamp from the confetti set and punched either end with the fantastic new Scalloped Tag Topper punch from Stampin' Up, I'm rather a fan of this.

The 2 scalloped ends are held together with a little tape but then a piece of string tied in the top - a reference to the original 'tying the knot' save the date cards that I made.

The front of each little favour is then decorated with a stamped piece of kraft card that has been punched with the SU curly label punch and a sentiment from the 'Teeny Tiny Sentiments' set that has been cut out with the ever useful SU word window punch.

This is a side shot with the sweeties housed safely inside!

Bubble Blooms birthdays

Still here!
Very busy behind the scenes at the moment and today I have 2 cards to share for the next set of special birthdays.

I have used the Woodware stamp 'Bubble Bloom - Teresa' for both of these but in different colour ways.

This one was stamped in black for the base image.  I then stamped it again on silver and paper pieced the leaves.

The stem and swirls have been sparkled up with a copic spica pen.

The circles on the bloom have been filled with a selection of card candi, gems, liquid pearls and stickles.

Computer generated sentiment and layered to match.

The lovely purple card is a 7x7" from Anna Marie.

The second card has been mounted on the same size but kraft card this time.

The leaves were stamped on gold pearl paper and a similar assortment of embellishments were added to the bloom but in different colours to match the card.

The stems and swirls had a touch of gold spica on this one.

I had meant to sponge the edge of the top layer of card but got carried away with the sticking down so thought I had better run with it!!

Thinking of You

This was a sympathy card I got asked for recently.

Yet again I had a different vision in my head as to how it panned out but there we go!

I've used kraft card and ivory stamping card, both from Anna Marie Designs.

The stamp set on the top half is good old Vintage Vogue, now retired from Stampin' Up which I've stamped in the fab sounding baked brown sugar.  I think I used a slightly darker ink for the large flowers which I have cut out and added with a little 1mm pad (the card had to be posted).

I've also added a card candi on the flowers - this was the limit for getting through the post before extra cost!

Sentiment is from the lovely new Wetland stamp set, punched out and layered on the trusty SU scalloped oval.

For the bottom of the card I used the new roller which I won at Jenny's extravaganza recently - it's called 'Very Vintage' and goes very nicely with this stamp set.
I've added this layer to some SU border punched strips (dotted scallop ribbon border).

For not going to plan it ended up well and was much appreciated by those concerned.

Save the Date

So, the pile of hearts I punched the other day can now be revealed as a project!

A work friend has asked me to make her wedding stationery, starting with save the date cards.

She had seen a design on Etsy she liked, particularly the 3D hearts and string aspect of it.

I played with a few takes on it but we settled for a design very close to the internet one and so I have made 36 of them.

The base is an A6 piece of kraft card from Anna Marie Designs.  The text is printed on to some cream printer card (also AM) and stuck on the bottom.

The 12 hearts on each card are a combination of: Anna Marie pearl card, a foliage stamp in brown on cream card, a love sentiment stamp in brown on kraft and some lightly patterned pieces of card from Craftybitz I got at Shepton recently.

The hearts are punched using the small heart punch from Stampin' Up.  Before I added them to the card I cut out a template and carefully cut out 12 squares in it so that when placed on each invite the hearts are exactly in the same place!

They are stuck on with 2mm foam pads and finished with a 'tying the knot' round the centre with some string.  A close up of the top section is below:

Girls night out

Firstly, sorry this picture isn't quite straight.

This was a bit of a last minute request and using this Stamping Bella image again seemed to be quite suitable.

I've paper pieced both dresses this time and coloured the rest of the image with copics - adding copic spica to the shoes and dress frills for added sparkle.

Layered the image and mounted on an A5 card made using the lovely Anna Marie kraft card.

Computer generated sentiment to match the dresses and finished with a splash of card candi!

Just found out Crafty Bunch is cancelled tomorrow which is a shame (no heating in the hall so the right choice nevertheless) so will have to crack on with extra crafting at home.

Football

Straight back to it and on with another request.

I was asked to make a football card for a Yeovil Town supporter so I made a couple of options.  The first is using a Papermania 'It's a mans world' stamp which I've coloured in copics and 3D'd the football.  Sentiment is also from the same set.

The second is a visible image stamp, also coloured with copics but the stripes (for some stupid reason) were cut from a piece of card.

SU sentiment and 3D footballs from the same  stamp set.

Yeovil Town colours are white and green just in case there was any doubt!

Both cards are layered up on green and black card and some lovely footy paper I got from Anna Marie which I thought might be handy.