Wedding Wishes

If you are a regular visitor, then you will know that last month I made a tiara for my friend who got married in the Caribbean - well Saturday was their "UK Reception/Celebration" and they both got kitted out in their wedding gear again so I now have a "in use" shot to share. 

I made them a second card, from all the girls in our book group, to go with the gift we bought between us.

I cut the flourish frame on my cameo and created a background (slightly too wide really but I discovered that too late to change it!) using the offset function.  I stamped and embossed the cake from the stampin up love and laughter set onto vellum with white ep with an amber rose heart on top.  I punched some flowers (MS hydrangea) and embossed those too, shaped and added a gem centre.  I used the same amber rose powder with a glue pen in the detail on the flourish and added some more gems around to bring out the details.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment underneath the cake and used a sakura pen to add colour to the holes around the frame.  I mounted onto some maroon ribbed cardstock to make a base and finished with some hand drawn stitches with a white gel pen.

I'm going to squeeze this in just before the deadline on the challenge which is all about weddings or anniversarys over at http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

Less is Gold

I'm very late to the Less is More party this week - I had to get my tiara order finished  (see below) and the tennis got in the way of my concentration somewhat!  There's been little time for "free" craft all week as I've had orders to complete and lots of paperwork for my Paper Crafts Magazine submission which was all a bit grown up and scary!   However, I managed to find a spare 10 minutes last night for a gold creation (I must admit gold is never one of my go to colours, I find silver much easier to work with when I go metallic) which is not earth shattering, but it's passable I guess.

The tree (Hero Arts) is stamped in gold (but looks browny-yellow in the photo) and then I added gold stickles to the hearts.  The sentiment is from PTI (button it) and I added a gold mat to bump up the gold element a little more.  The card base is a pre-embossed one I've had in my stash forever - think it was originally a QVC/Create and Craft kit.

In case you're still reading, this is what I spent my weekend making, for my friend who gets married in the Dominican Republic this month.

 

There are hundreds of different sized pearls, swarovski crystal (4 sizes) , tiny crystal seed beads and diamante's - all wired on by hand with very thin silver wire to keep the weight down - so you can probably see why I had little time for card making!

I added some hidden blue beads to the underneath of the band so she has her "something blue".

The matching pins are for her sister who will be her bridesmaid.

It's really nice to think that a little bit of me will be with her on her big day on the other side of the world.  Maybe she'll even wear it again for their Reception when they come back in August.

Back to cards now - they're soooo much quicker ;-)