An Unusual Handmade Wedding Invitation!

24 Jan 2010

1 Comment  Cardmaking Ideas, cardmaking, handmade card ideas

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

 

 

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World Card Making Day

06 Oct 2009

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Saturday was World Card Making Day and what a good day I had.
In the morning I went to see a friend's daughter getting married and I have to say that she was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen, and boy did she enjoy her wedding.
And then I spent the whole afternoon and evening making cards- what bliss!
 
I've just started my push on making Christmas Cards -I'm part of a small card making team at Longton Community Church and each year we make about 500 Christmas cards which we sell to raise funds for a Children's Home in Uganda. For every card we sell we support one child for one day. So Saturday got my efforts off to a great start.
 
Because of the volume of cards we have to make we start off making the ones which are the easiest - so most of the ones I made on Saturday were made using background papers, glitter and card toppers. In my card making sessions I tend to concentrate on one type of card making, so Saturday was my day for quick cards. Another day I will move on to rubber stamping, another embossing etc.

 

Handmade Christmas Card Here's one of the first cards I made - I've used a pretty background  paper which wraps round the card. Then after matt and layering the card toppers onto mirror card I used 2cm double sided foam pads to fix them to the card. For a finishing touch I added glitter to the stars on the toppper and to the snowflakes on the background paper.

The funny thing is that once I'm in a Christmas card making mood I find it difficult to switch to another type of card
making - does this mean I am addicted to glitter and sparkle?

Do you find it easy to switch from type of card to another, or do you tend to concentrate on batches of Christmas Cards, batches of birthday cards etc?

 
 

 

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