Travel Themed Wedding Invitations

If you are regular reader of my blog, you may remember a while back I was asked to come up with some ideas for a travel theme wedding invitation. 
Well, after a discussion with the bride here's what we decided on.

Making 60 of these is  the reason I haven't   posted anything my blog for a while.




A passport style  cover  (which was hot foiled in silver.)  with  an insert with pockets,  to put  the luggage tag RSVP and a boarding pass invitation in.

The colour  chosen is S.U 's Marina mist card stock  and ink.

A whole host of stamp sets were used for this creation.

The motorcycle, artistic etchings, open sea, feeling sentimental and The world map background stamp.
Other tools sponges, corner rounding punch

After printing of the  passes and tags I masked off the front  to keep it clean while working on the back . 
Then randomly stamped the back of each pass and tag,   then  sponged the edges.


Then I removed the mask and  softly sponged and stamped the front. 

The above photo shows how I cut the card to make the pockets

Wedding Invitations

 It's been a while since I have posted anything . To be honest my craft room is in such a mess it's almost  impossible to work in there. Since I lost my airing cupboard to a new boiler all the linens have be stacked up outside the  craft room making virtually  impossible to get in there. The problem should be resolved tomorrow as my new bespoke  linen cupboard arrives. But enough of my  domestic babble and on to my latest creations.
I was asked  last week to knock up a few samples of wedding invitations as cheaply as possible.  So I have been forced into clearing a small space on my work bench to create the invitations below.

I don't know the bride to be so mum is giving me ideas as to what  her daughter may like.
Instructions so far  are  they are going for a beach/ travel themed wedding and the chosen colours maybe blue and/or yellow.
For the invitation above I have used bashful blue card stock and ribbon and the scallop shell from the Natures next stamp set  stamped onto whisper white card and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

The second one is the swallowtail background stamp from SU heat embossed, again using silver embossing powder on whisper white card stock.


The third one Marina mist card stock and the scallop shell again with silver embossing powder.

Mum also mentioned Butterflies  so I have used the

Swallowtail stamp to create these two invitations. I can't say they are my cup of tea but I do find that other people tend to like the card I make, that I don't like. (Very strange)                                   Here I have embossed the butterfly in white and daubed  pool party ink all over the embossed image

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 I have more ideas brewing in my head and during the summer I shall be making more samples.

Another project I am working on is a mini album of my NEW GRANDSON. He arrived 9 days early taking us all by surprise.
I will post photos of the album when it's completed.

Hearts and Flower Invitation.

My craft room has been in such a mess lately that today I decided I was going to clean it up.
But once I got in there and started tidying things away I found this flower I made when my big shot arrived.
So I decided to do something with it.
But I didn't want to get anything else out. So I confined myself to making a card using only the things that were within arms reach. The heart punches, the texture wheel stamp, a square punch, some pearly card and the big shot.
I punched hearts stuck them randomly on the front of the pearly card.
Then placed a large piece of card over the whole thing and ran it through the bigshot to inlay the hearts. It is important to sandwich your work in between card of the same colour as your work. For two reasons.......If you don't... you will end up with all the cut marks on your cutting mat etched into your work.
And two......I say use the same colour card , because if you have any exposed adhesive round the hearts it will stick to the upper layer of card,leaving you with tiny pieces of coloured card to painstakingly remove. It's not much fun trying to remove it.... I found this out when I made this card.
I ran over the whole piece of card several times with the texture wheel stamp and crumb cake ink.
I used the square punch to cut out the V in the banner on both layers of card.
I stamped the greeting using Early expresso ink, added the flower and mounted the whole thing onto chocolate chip card.
I don't think,NO! I am sure I wouldn't choose this card for a wedding invitation. It's to fussy for me the thought of making a hundred or more would leave me feeling suicidal. I would want to stop after only doing three of these.
Advice for anyone wanting to make their own wedding invites....... Keep them simple..... you may have to make a lot more than you have the patience to do.

Black and Ivory wedding invitations.

These black and Ivory wedding invitations caused all sorts of problems. First I couldn't find anyone selling black and Ivory card .

So I decided to make the card myself.

Then I hit another problem the card had to be a decent weight to ensure it wouldn't tear or curl outwards with the weight and tension of the ribbon and button pulling on it.

When I found what I thought was the perfect card......it wouldn't go through my printer.

Eventually I decide to try stampin' ups very vanilla card stock it worked a treat, I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier.

I got through miles of ribbons . I was shocked at just how much ribbon these were taking and a bit annoyed at having to make several trips into town to buy more.

The next problem was the black card.

I wanted a heavier weight so that I could make a fairly sturdy box for these invites.

My usual supplier didn't have any , but it turned out that a colleague did!!! Bless you and Thank You Allison.

And here are the matching menu and place cards . .......Well some of them.

The menu looks slightly lighter in colour in this photo, but it is exactly the same colours as the place card.

You can click on the photo s for a larger view.