Wedding Makes and Wedding Photos

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. We very much enjoyed the wedding on  Saturday and then we had a a day with our daughter on Sunday followed by a day to chill on Monday.

Now on to what I promised I would show you.

Here are most of the things I made for the wedding. I did make some evening invitations but I couldn't find one of those to put in this picture.  

Here are the happy couple surrounded by some of  their family and friends. The wedding and the reception all took place in the Explosion Museum in Gosport. 

This is the card I made for them I kept the theme of the invitations for the design. 

A little gift that I made for them I did blog this a few weeks ago. I am planning to make another one as another cousin is getting married in July.

This is the reading that was read at the wedding. 

This is the table plan at the venue. I was very pleased with how this turned out. The happy couple gave me an admiralty chart which we found a frame for. You can just about see the silver ships they were cut with my ScanNcut I was so pleased that this worked. My husband helped a lot he did all the work on the computer. Even finding me silhouettes of warships to be cut with the ScanNcut.

All the tables had one of these cards on them. The tables were named after missiles. 

On the back of the table card were instructions to get a code to open the padlock on a crate which contained things we needed for the reception. 

Everyone had a place card and helpfully we had put their  menu choices inside.

There was an Ammo crate for cards and presents. 

There was also a sweet buffet table. 

This is the cake made of cheese and the brides bouquet. 

It was a very well organised wedding and lots of fun. There were lots of things for the guests today including a photo booth where many very silly photos were taken. 

Not so silly with my husband's parents and our daughter and her fiancé,  

Very silly with our daughter and her fiancé my husband is hiding. 

The next wedding I will be making things for will be our daughter's wedding in fact we are visiting a venue with them on Wednesday. 

Take care.

Hugs Jackie

Tattered Lace - Gatefold Embossing Folders

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. It is hard not to feel subdued after the awful events that unfolded in Paris last night. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

I will be crafting later I have another Tattered Lace Deadline. We have been out and done some Christmas shopping, life goes on.

Yesterday there saw a new release of  some Tattered Lace Gatefold Embossing folders. They sold out after the first show on Create and Craft.  I am sure they will be back in stock soon. There are four embossing folders altogether, I was sent one with its matching die, I made a few samples for the shows.

I am rather proud of this card mainly because I actually used my Brushos to make the back ground. The embossing folders emboss nicely and there is a matching die to cut them out. I used it to make a hill. I used the other die I was sent to make flowers. 

I have a bit of a confession that I didn't use the embossing folder in the way it was intended. You can actually make a complete gatefold card with it Rossella Cottrell demonstrated this on Create and Craft. I just embossed single sheets and cut it out with the matching die. I love the curvy shape. 

I put two of the cut outs together to cover the front of this gate fold card. I  this invitation would be easy to adapt to any colour scheme. 

This is a tiny pizza box style box I found the instructions on the internet. I trimmed down the embossed cut outs to cover the box. 

Here are my samples all together. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend. We all have a lot to think about. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Wedding Invitation Samples

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the week ahead. I am still coughing so I think I will have to give in and go to the doctors. At least it is the Half Term holiday and I can get some rest.

I have mentioned the wedding invitations I will be making a few times and I thought the time has come to show you what I have been working on.

These are the samples I took to show the happy couple. This was after initial discussions on their wants. The wedding is having a naval theme as it will take place at Explosion: the museum of naval firepower in Gosport

This is the design that was chosen but there will be some changes the background was made with a Gelli plate.  I need to make another sample to incorporate the changes we discussed. 

This is me set up to make the Save the Date cards. They need to go out in March so I need to get a move  on. The ship die is a Signature die it cuts beautifully.

Well tomorrow is my first Blog Anniversary. I can't believe I have been blogging for a whole year. I want to thank all of my followers and all those that leave comments for making this journey such a pleasure.

I hope you have a great week.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie