Wedding Favour Boxes

Never again! That's all i'm going to say! Well that's not all i'm going to say and most likely I will do this again but at the moment - nooooooooooo!

So to make some sense of all of this rambling I will explain: My church does this event called a wedding preparation day for couples who are to be married at the church in the year ahead. The event is to teach them the shocking statistics of divorce rates and make sure that they understand what they are commiting themselves to - after the fantasy white wedding that is (if that doesnt drive you to wanting to call the whole thing off in the first place that is).

Anyway, the whole event has been a massive success since it started 2 years ago, and this year they also have other vicars from the diocese coming to see what its all about by request of the bishop - oh joy of joys! lol! so mayhem all round - but hey!

Because this years event is going to be so much bigger than either of the previous years - due to the sheer numbers of couples getting married, my vicar decided to do a new twist to the seating arrangements and set the whole thing up like a wedding breakfast with a seating plan and place names etc etc - pretty cool actually! but he then decided on wednesday night that he fanced favour boxes too so phoned me and asked if I could run some up - by last night! eek- oh and could I do 7 designs (different designs for each table) in a range of numbers (depending who was seated where).....ummmm ok? ha! never again will I be so idiotic as to agree to doing this again, well in so short a time- especially as I was in work all day thursday and friday.

But anyway, I finished them and this is what I came up with:

 

Pink hearts in pearl card with double mounted foam hearts on a swing tag, tied with pastel pink ribbon

Green hearts in pearl card, with heart flourish from cuttlebug die, tied with forest green ribbon

Pink handbags in pearl card, with large paper flower - centred with pink gem and tied with pale pink ribbon

Purple handbags in pearl card with 'love' postage stamp from cuttlebug collection impressed in mink pearl card

Purple pyramid in pearl card, with heart embellishments in mink pearl card, tied with pale purple ribbon

Teal pyramid boxes, decorated with pale bronze pearl embellishments with teal gems, tied using pale teal ribbon

Purple truffle boxes in pearl card (image shows front and back), with large paper flower - centred with clear gem and tied with pale purple ribbon

So there you have it - all the boxes made up: 7 pink hearts, 8 green hearts, 7 of each of the pyramids, 4 of each of the handbags and 8 of the truffle boxes = 45 boxes in total.

All materials from my stash, except the base card stock - and before anyone asks; no I do not have a machine which cutes these boxes, they are all hand drawn and cut out!

Hope they go down well - I don't know how they've been recieved as I'm currently at work *shush they don't need to know i'm on here* so mums dropped them off.

Thanks for looking everyone! Hope you have a fab weekend and happy crafting! xx

Tilda thanks

Just a note of thanks - I had this Tilda all coloured up with no where to go - well that's just not acceptible! so here she is standing proudly on this fab paper which is part of the K&Company Citronella collection. Image is watercoloured and highlighted with whisper pens; ribbons, buttons and other card all from stash.

Nothing fancy but I hope her new owner likes her (and the card)

Hope all are well - happy crafting! x

I Made The Top 5!

Wow! I can't believe it! I made the top 5 at Cupcake Craft Challenges for my 'Keep It Simple' Card - I'm honoured and somewhat amazed!

What a lovely end to my evening! :D

DP2 - Clean and Simple

The challenge over at Mo's Digital Pencil this week was 'clean and simple' : Use white or cream cardstock, your image from Mo's Digital Pencil, and one ribbon.. it's that simple... and, no additional layers!
EEK!

Well in principle this should have been an easy challenge - Mo's images are so beautiful you don't need to do anything fancy with them, but in practice?........ well that is another story entirely. This is the 4th attempt at this challenge and I still hate the finished item - I don't think i've done the image justice but it's the best of a bad batch, so here it is:

You can be brutal in your comments! I won't be offended.

The image is called 'inbetween' and i've coloured it with watercolours and then my whisper pens- with the exception of her dress which I have then highlighted with a glitter pen (hard to see on the photo -sorry).

Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a fab weekend! xx

3-2-1

2 different challenge blogs this week are using the theme of 3-2-1: Firstly is allsorts challenges, secondly is simon says. Simon says also has a fab blog hop attached to this weeks challenge so go and check it out!

So my recipe is:

3 embellishments - flowers, ribbons and brads

2 papers - spotty and pearl

1 image - tilda with corn

The spotty paper is Pretty Please Spring Papers, the ribbon and flowers were from the blog candy I won from Mina (Pinkpuds) and everything else is from stock.

This is also for my mums birthday at the end of next week - so even if it sucks for the challenge entries I just hope she likes it!

Thanks for looking and happy crafting xx

Keep it simple and add a ribbon!

This weeks challenge at cupcake craft is 'keep it simple' so I decided to use a large image and just play.

So all i did was decoupage this image by cutting out a section from a second stamped image, matting it on black card and mounting it back on with foam pads. I highlighted to dots in the design with pearl drops, double mounted the whole thing on black than pearl - to match the drops and added a ribbon and brad to complete.

I would also like to enter this card for Pink Elephant's challenge this week which is 'ribbons'

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!

xx

2 Challenges in 1

Back to the land of challenge cards! yay! lol - this one is for DP2 - Pink,white,red & heart and Creative Inspirations - Leftovers

I used the same layout as the sketch and stash # 28 challenge - I just love its simplicity!

 

The image is - obviously - one of Mo's beautiful creations, I just adore this little girl! and was coloured using my whisper pens. The papers are from Pretty Please Spring Papers (which I got free with Cardmaking and Papercraft) and K&Company Citronella pad - which I won in Fussy and Fancy Fridays Candy at the start of the year.  The ribbons are from stash. Everything came out of my oddments box of left overs - The image was a spare that i'd printed up from a previous project and the papers are oddment cut offs. Oooh and I almost forgot - the buttons are from stash too!  

Thanks for looking and happy crafting! xx