Monday 22 April 2013

Wedding Fair

I know this is a craft blog but I thought I would just share a few pictures from my day job.
At the weekend I attended a wedding fair to promote my florist shop.

 This is a picture of my stand I was really happy with the colour cloth I choose as this sort of pale blue is really on trend at the mo and also the vintage style bunting finishes it off well.










  This is a mock up brides bouquet I made in fresh flowers including roses, carnations, and orchids, I was very pleased with how this turned out. I choose to do a set of matching flowers for one end of my stall and think this worked well and will continue to use the idea of a theme at future wedding fairs.













Here are the matching orchid corsage on wrist band and rose buttonholes one in fresh and one in silk.














And here is a matching table arrangement in tall glass vase which is filled with crystals and pearls















The last picture I just had to add, is off the extremely blue, blue raspberry ice cream which was being sold by fellow exhibitor husky ices who have the cutest ice cream van in the world.














So I know this post wasn't crafting but I just had to share the lovely flowers I made for this event. check back soon for another crafting post.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Bank Holiday card making.

With the extra day off work for the Easter bank holiday I decided to have a crafting day and make some cards, I then managed to keep up the momentum and make more cards through the following week, totalling 14 cards and six more friendship teas to sell in the shop.
So here are the cards I made, many of them are made using new items from my last stampin up splurge.


First up a couple of small note cards, on both of these I have stuck a coloured square just a fraction smaller than the card and have stamped on to it in a darker shade. I like the effect this gives just being one colour. I've then added some depth by accenting it with cream bits stuck on with foam pads. Stamp sets used here include loving thoughts, apothecary art, collage curios and aviary. I normally have stampin up stamps in wood mount but read on another blog that aviary was best purchased in clear which I did and I agree its much easier to see where a cage is to place the birds in or on it.
Next a simple but elegant anniversary card the strip of print poetry paper matching up lovely with the flowers on top of the cake. Stamps used including loving thoughts, and love and laughter.









This card uses papillon potpourri and coordinating butterfly punch which is such a lovely shape, I will admit to not getting the two side butterflies level but fixed this problem by stamping more butterflies to create a more random looking pattern, the light ones are created by stamping the image once on scrap paper then continuing to stamp with out re-inking. the word again is from loving thoughts many stamps from this set fit well in to the modern label punch.




For this card I used a stamp from the apothecary art set I cut the shape out by hand but hope to invest in the matching framelit dies at some point. This stamp set pairs up lovely with the loving thoughts set and in this card compliments the strip of print poetry paper really well.








Another card using the apothecary art set this single layer card has had the image stamped in coloured ink then the sentiment embossed in gold, gold corners were also added. this simple card could be interpreted in many colours.











Next a thank you card using the tea shoppe set. Tea cups are very on trend at the moment and have a nice vintage feel. The cup of thanks sentiment is a quirky way of saying thank you.










Another simple card using the collage curios set I love this set as it fits in the 1 inch circle punch a dream and can be mixed and matched with the different pictures and circles. I like this card thou feel it may have worked better being slightly smaller to start with.













This card really show off the versatility of the collage curios set and the lovely print poetry paper, I like the effect of the curly label punch with the circles and feel I've got the balance of patterned paper and stamped images right. Other stamps used include pretty petites and elementary elegance.










 Another version of this style of card with a different colour scheme this one also has an added soda pop top which has been run through a big shot to flatten it. I think this makes a lovely little accent.












The next three are made using the feeling sentimental set, these stamps have a lovely vintage sketchy feel and I think make nice cards for men, the shapes have been cut using some sizzix framelits which I've found is a quick and easy way of creating impact and makes a nice chance from just straight edges and squares.












The last card also uses the feeling sentimental set. Just part of each image is used, I wouldn't have thought of doing this till I saw another card like this I like how it looks though. I added coloured pearl embellishments to each end of the sentiment and I think this helps with the vintage feel of the card.




So there you go cards I have been making recently I hope you like them and have inspired your own crafty doing. I do believe that sometimes you can just get in the grove for crafting and at these times you should do as much as you can, I think mine was helped by the slightly better weather and retro choices of music while I worked, not listened to status quo and genesis for ages.