Wedding Projects

This was another banner that was done for the wedding. Using the same font as with all the decorations for the wedding from Storybook. This time just rectangles were used and the holes were punched for the ribbon after everything was put together. Size was 8.5" x 10" These pictures were taken with the banner pieces on a bed. An after thought was to put purple stones on the tips of all the swirls. Between the words, I used the heart from Sweethearts cartridge on page 34 with using the Gypsy to size.

This was the flourish on page 76 from the Sweethearts cartridge without the flowers and circles which were not cut using the Gypsy.

I know it is hard to see how it looked but as for now this is the only picture I have show. Finding a place to hang was difficult but this was where it ended up on a railing that was dividing the room with two levels.

Wedding Projects

As in the previous post, these were made for the bride and groom to hold for pictures. They were cut from the same cartridges of Tie the Knot for the base and Storybook for the letters. They were cut smaller than 7.5" , I believe at 6" for the base and 3.5" for the letters.

At the last minute, I thought I would add another base but to fit their last name and the same height so the gypsy was used and it was fit to the paper of 12" . I thought it needed a little more for the name to fill the space so out of their color I cut a flourish to fit at the bottom of the name. Holes were punched to string the ribbon through with the name left with the ribbon opened so they could hold an end.

One of the the pictures taken outside holding the banners.Pictures showing them carrying them when they entered the room.

Wedding Projects

My daughter had seen pictures of various banners that she liked, so this is the one that I created to put on the front of her table. These pictures were taken at home on the dining room table.

The white base was cut from Tie the Knot out of the same glitter paper used for all my projects.
They were cut @ 7.5 " and the holes were punched with a hole punch to put the ribbon through the top. The lettering was cut from Storybook out of black glitter paper @ 3.70" with no feature selected. The scroll was from Sweethearts on page 76 but I did go into the hide feature of the Gypsy so I didn't cut the flower or the circles and were cut @ 5.5".
The closeup shows that I added stones to the bottom opposite of the holes punched from the top. The heart was cut as a place to separate the words and was cut from the shadow feature on page 40 of the sweethearts cartridge

Shower

Right before the shower, I had gotten a craft idea from Martha Stewart. She put flowers on a mini light set so that is what you see in the background. I bought extra Leis and took them apart and glued them to the lights. Hard to tell that they were on in this picture. Everyone had gotten a lei when the arrived.

Cookies in the baskets for the guest made by the grooms mother.
Yum, the bakery table all done by the grooms mother. Only a few calories and all so good.

Instead of a cake, she made three different types of cupcakes.

I made the cupcake wrappers in three colors, the one shown are raspberry cupcakes with a raspberry on top. Trying to the size for the wrappers was not as easy as it should have been. Tried several sizes first but not all cupcakes are created equal. I cut the flowers @1.5" to match the rest of the decorations. there was one light purple cut and then two of the darker purple with a toothpick in between with one flower being reversed.

The groom holding the Leis under the banner that was featured in another post. It was one of the windiest days and cooler than what it had been earlier in the week but at least the sun was shinning that day.

Thanks card

I just bought this Martha Stewart Punch the other day ( actually a corner and border punch in one). The only thing is with this punch, you have to cut your paper a certain size in order for it to work so I just used the corner punch on two different papers.

This card was inspired by a project in one of the new cartridges that was just announced. A tri fold using the same colors as the other cards posted earlier. I did use Storybook cartridge for the black border (fancy corner N floral on page 41 of the handbook)2" and then the middle was cut in half (W fancy corner on page 50) " Thanks"was cut from Gypsy Wanderings. I did have black velvet ribbon and put it through a slider created with Christmas Cheer. A small flower was also cut from GW and glued to the ribbon.

I do like the way it turned out except for the fact that it is 6" x 7" according to the directions.

Cardmaking

This card is a tri fold. Using a stripe paper, then layering it with a rose and light pink paper. The heart is cut from Storybook cartridge page 42 in the book. The words were computer generated

The on the other flap, i decided it was too plain and used the "Devine Swirls" and a ric rac folder from Cuttlebug.

Added the sentiment from the computer and mounted it on the darker pink paper.