wedding invitations

My step son Nicky and his fiancee are getting married in October in Gretna Green. There are 45 close family going so only 17 invitations needed :o) Of course smarty pants me says "oh we can make them as complicated as we want" What a thing to say lol

LeeAnne had an idea what she wanted, she wanted little pockets to put the rsvp card and directions to the wedding, she had sketched out a trifold card. So I had a bit of a play and ended up making it gatefold with the pockets on each of the small flaps. She wanted pink as her colour originally and then she found her perfect dress which has a black ribbon under the bust. I just happened to have this spotty paper and she fell in love with it!! In fact she loves it so much she is having a polka dot wedding cake to match :o)

The stamp on the front as well as the cake on the rsvp card I found on ebay. We both fell for the Charles Rennie MacIntosh style stamp. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and the paper is by Anne Stemplewska from Anna Marie Designs

This is the rsvp card, it is a dinky size, 9.5cm x 6cm! It fits in the wee envelopes you get with flowers :o)

Can you believe I forgot to take pics of them when I finished them at the weekend? What a total numptie I am ~ I was so excited to get them finished that I gave them to her then and there!! I had to wait til our invitation arrived in the post today lol As Nicky and LeeAnne already live together I said that the invitations, place cards and favour boxes would be our present to them. I am also going to do some thankyou cards for them as well.

The happy couple are very happy with them, in fact LeeAnne loves them! She loves how funky they are (oh to be 25 again and happy with funkyness lol)

And finally.......

Card number 3!! I couldn't decide which child to send a card to on Post Pals so I made one boys and one girls card. The boy I am sending this to is called Charlie. I used the sketch at Carols Sketch Fun; Lili of the Valley want paper piecing and over at Charisma cardz there is no theme.

Image: unknown stamp it was a gift

Papers and cardstock: Stampin Up

Sentiment: Dovecraft

Also used: Fiskars border punch

OOPS just realised it has Happy Birthday on it...............off now to cover it up with another circle of paper ~ what a numptie I am lol

card number 2 :o)

Ok onto card number 2...........there is an absolutely fabulous cause over at Daring cardmakers: make a kids card and send it to one of the kids at Post Pals and I made this card to be sent to one of the girls called Megan. I used the sketch from Just Magnolia. it also qualifies for Papertake Weekly who want us to use downloads, Colour Create want Pistachio Green, Light Pink and Aqua

Image: Magnolia coloured with PMs and Whispers

Papers: Gorjuss Ginghams download from Funky Fairy

Flowers, hearts and buttons: from stash

Also used: Martha Stewart border punch, argyll embossing folder for cuttlebug

busy morning!

I originally went to the craft table to tidy up this morning but I ended up sitting down and making 3 cards!!




The first one is using the Penny Black Saturday Challenge sketch and the theme of embellishments over at Stamp Something. The card is going to be for my nephew who is has his forst birthday in a couple of weeks, this one will be from Lily.

Image: Penny Black

Sentiment: Lili of the Valley

Papers, cardstock, ribbons and buttons: all Stampin Up

Also used: ribbon slider die in cuttlebug

Back soon with the next card :o)

Week 38 at Just Christmas and Birthday Cards

Morning girlies I hope you all had a fabulous sunny weekend! We had a lovely day yesterday just relaxing round the house and even had a nap in the afternoon......ahhh bliss :o)

So today I am feeling relaxed and ready for the last week of school, only 3 and a half days to go til the Summer Hols. I still work but not full time in the holidays which is lovely, I usually get the afternoons just me and Lily which is fab.

Anyway onto the sketch from Janina this week at Just Christmas and Birthday Cards..........it's a tricky one ~ but you'll love it. This week I made a Christmas tag, either for a present or maybe as a decoration for the tree.

Image: Sugar Nellie coloured with PMs

Paper: free with a magazine

Cardstock: Stampin Up

brad, gems and ribbon: all from stash

also used: snowflake die in cuttlebug, swiss dots embossing folder and stickles

I really hope you'll join us this week :o)

Sunday School Picnic

Well we ended up having a really lovely day yasterday................not a drop of rain which was a result as it looked like showers when I got up! The sun came out now and then in the morning and it was just warm enough for all the walking around we were doing. The picnic was fab, lots of lovely sandwiches and best of all Betty's famous Marsbar Crispy Cake (oooohhhh yummmm she makes it for all picnics and parties cos we all loves it so much lol)

We took the kids to the Highland Wildlife Park which is in the next village and is fabulous. We recently got some Amur Tigers (they used to be called Siberian Tigers) and they just had cubs 7 weeks ago so we were all eager to see them. I LOVE tigers they are just gorgeous animals, so I was in my element! We also saw Snow Monkeys, Wolves, Wild Boar, Red Pandas, Otters and Bactrian Camels to name a few :o)

Here's some pics as promised:

how cute is this wee baby Snow Monkey??

daddy tiger getting his lunch

mummy and 2 of the cubs also at feeding time, there are three cubs the other one was hiding!

Allsorts week 7............Acetate

morning girlies!! Today we are having a second attempt at the Sunday School Picnic after last weeks heavy rain.................6 days of sunshine later and yes we have woken up to dull and showers!! It's so not fair! However, its an hour or more til we leave so who know what will happen, we have a backup plan this time so if it is wet we are going to a soft play centre instead.

Anywhoooo...........onto Allsorts week 7. This week is Jackie's theme and she wants "Acetate" I have used acetate as the base card, the papers and ribbon used are both Stamping Up, the scallops are punched circles and there is another semi circle on the inside to cover the circles on that side too. Corner scroll is a cuttlebug die.

We really hope you will join us this week and show us your gorgeous acetate creations :o)

(I'll be back tonight to tell you about the picnic, hopefully with plenty of pics!!)