An Unusual Handmade Wedding Invitation!
24 Jan 2010
You may be looking at this Handmade Wedding Invitation and be wondering what is so unusual about it?
It looks like a fairly standard 6″ by 6″ square card which has been covered with a heart covered background paper.
The plain white feature heart is cut from a Nestability layered onto a pink scalloped heart. (The pink picks up the hint of pink which is in the background paper.)
The heart has been embellished with mini pink heart jewels and then, using 3D foam. has been mounted on top of a pale pink organza bow. The tails of the bow are actually pinned down by the heart which creates quite a nice effect.
So what is so unusual about this card? Well it has nothing to do with the actual make-up of the card, it’s to do with the reason why I made it…..
….Last weekend a young friend of ours came round to the house to give us an invitation to his wedding in August, later this year.
He knew I made handmade cards and he asked me to create an invitation for him to send to his fiancee, basically inviting her to her own wedding!
Now I have to admit this is the first time I’ve ever heard of this, let alone be asked to make one. However our friend, Stewie thought it would be a romantic gesture and would make his fiancee feel special.
As I’ve said before I’m a hopeless romantic at heart so no matter how unusual the request was I couldn’t say “no”!
For the inside of the card I made a pale lilac insert which toned nicely with the pink and brown on the card’s front.
At the outside edges of the insert I used a nice flourish punch which has a central heart. This is a very simple thing to do but I think it always adds a lot to the overall look and feel of the card.
I left the insert blank because I thought it would be nice for Stewie to write in his own words and feelings.
On the front of the heart I just printed in a nice script “For Lisa With All My Love”.
I gave the card to Stewie today and he was already in trouble for being late going home to Lisa – I just hope that she liked the card as much as Stewie did!
Susan from Cardmaking-Companion