{Wedding Inspiration}

Had great fun yesterday helping some brides design and create their wedding stationary, favours and wedding flowers.

Here are some items I made to inspire them... Paper cones filled with sweets, invitations and decorative pegs.

Have a fab weekend!

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-{Crafty Gift idea}-

So, because I've been trying to work smarter and not harder recently, when an idea came to me this week I thought I'd film it...

...what I didn't realise is that my nails look AWFUL!!!  Please ignore them, I'll try and paint them up especially for next week's video!

Well, my idea was to make a crafty gift or prize at a party.  To give the recipient a little taster pot of goodies that they could create some little cards at home.

The end result is not as polished I would normally present, however the thought behind it is to give you some inspiration.  I did use what you see in the video, but jazzed it up with some ribbon and popped something extra in the box too.

I completely forgot to take a photo, so here is a picture of a recent make and take.

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A friend of mine who regularly commissions me to make her special cards, rang the other week wanting one for her course tutor.  She left the design up to me.  I was leafing through some paper stash, and the Fan Fair papers with the keys on it took my fancy, and I thought up the sentiment "Thank you for being the key to our education".  This I printed with my computer and decorated the inside with.  I stamped the script stamp from French Foilage with White Craft ink onto Midnight Muse card stock, and distressed the edges with the fabulous distress tool in the Spring/Summer mini (don't miss it on page 14)

Here is the card, it was fairly large, approx A5.

-{Shoes shoes and more shoes}-

Got a shoe template from {this} blog, and had a glorious time playing with it.

I've used an empty Stampin Up glitter pot as the heel of the more modern looking shoes.  Been thinking this would be a lovely way to dress up a lip balm gift.  Or to house a small gift.  And what about a wedding or party favour for a shoe mad girl?

~{kindness matters }~

Here are a couple of cards made with the very pretty and one of the least expensive sets in the catalogue.

The butterflies on this one were stamped and coloured with a blender pen.


I stamped lots of times with Pretty in Pink to create a background, then stamped on top using Basic Grey.

-{spring catalogue is here }-

Yummy yummy yummy!

I was extremely constrained with my pre order. There are so many pretty products in {this} new catalogue.   It would be very easy to spend £45 to get your free gift out of the Saleabration leaflet, see it {here}

Here is a card made with the gorgeous Tea for Two designer series paper.

If you like florals, teatime, shabby chic, patchwork and a spring colour palette then this is one for you.  As usual there are also some generic patterns in colours that would be fine for mens cards.