Wedding Card

I waited to post this photo.  As well as the Royal Wedding last weekend, it was the wedding of a good school friend of mine, Kev to Clare (sadly I couldn't make the wedding).

I wanted to make a personalised card and since they are into comic-con and music I thought the backing paper was quite arty and reminded me of vinyl records.

I die cut the birds from cardboard and hand coloured them with promarkers.

The letters are also die cut and have a thick gold enamel covering and I added a heart brad as a finishing touch.

Hopefully the happy couple have opened all their cards by now, if not-SURPRISE!!

Kyla

Twofer

A twofer, two cards for the price of one (well sort of).

The backing paper was a 12x12 sheet that I no longer needed so decided to use it for cards.

The card on the left has bakers twine, a couple of tags that I stamped Mr and Mrs on and added a small gemstone on each.

I added some lace to the bottom of the card, and there you have it a wedding card!

The card on the right has a repurposed black felt coaster cut up and a stamped sentiment which I matted and layered.  Sympathy cards are difficult to make so I was pleased I was able to make this one.  It was also timely as not only did we find out fellow WOYWWers Janet sadly died recently but also my cousin, only  2 yrs older than me died suddenly 2 weeks ago so I was able to send this to my Uncle.

Kyla

 

A wedding and a Volcano!

 Hello peeps.  I have been absent for a couple of weeks as I have been busy with my brothers wedding.

My brother, Andrew, met his wife (oh that sounds so odd!!) Zoe in Ecuador where they lived for 3 years.  They met on the other side of the planet up a volcano where they were both working for a charity-the odd thing is they were both living in London before they met, yet there is no reason why they would have met in London, different friends and past times, so it was definitely fate that they both met.

They married Friday 13th in Haselmere a mix of traditional church wedding with more than a mix of Ecuadorian flavours (and a lot of it in the native tongue of Spanish).

The wedding was beautiful, the bride was stunning (in what I think was the most beautiful dress I have ever seen) and my brother looked so happy.

 As they left the church they had a homemade piñata filled with rose petals (instead of confetti) which the bride and groom walloped with a rather large stick!

Since they lived on a volcano the wedding had this theme. The tables were named after the various volcanoes they lived on, worked on and hiked up.  Their wedding cake even had cotton wool clouds and guinea pigs....though to top it all the wedding cake also erupted with a plume of smoke from the top!!!  

I decide to make a frame for the happy couple with a map of Ecuador and scrabble tiles with their initials (as I thought A-Z sounded like a travel book!)

I also wrapped a horseshoe that I found when clearing out my dad's shed in ribbon.  It took a lot of cleaning and 4 types of glue before I found one that worked (its the first time Multi Medium hasn't worked!).  Its only 5 months since dad died and I thought it would be nice to have something of his there.

It was a lovely day and I met Zoe's wonderful blended family (Father, step Mother, Mother and Step Father and each of their respective families) and friends.  It rained a bit but no one seemed to mind as it was such a fabulous day.

To Andrew and Zoe, soul mates forever.

Kyla xx

Clear blue skies, a wedding and a diamond

Well, what a weekend. Glorious weather, unbroken sunshine with only a gentle warm breeze, perfect for my brother-in-law's wedding. Scott married Lucy in the glorious city of Bath, surrounded by family and friends and they both looked amazing. It was a wonderful day, and this is the card I made for them. I took MANY photo's but I have decided not to post them on here yet until they have seen them ('tis only fair).

This did mean I had very little time this weekend for crafing, and when I have, it has been to make things for the CB Halloween blogparty on the 17th (I am hoping to be able to put a link on here later). But I did have time to carve a diamond stamp and make this retro inspired card with it

Anyway, since my OH is off at bandpractise tonight I am going to take advantage and do a bit of crafting...

Happy Crafting

Li'l Pidge

Welcome to my Blog

Hello, after some time reading all the fantastic blogs on this site I have finally decided to take the plunge and start a blog.

I hope this will be a way to share with you designs, inspirations and of course the end product!

To start this off, this is an acceptance card I recently made for my bother-in-law Scott and his lovely fiance Lucy. It was a bit time consuming as I had to stamp and emboss the velum, carefully tear the cardstock adding glitter etc. but worth it for the happy couple.

Hopefully I will have more to post soon.

Li'l Pidge

as Kate Bush once said "be kind to my mistakes"