Love & Marriage....

love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage!! I won't do any more, my singing is dire lol.

Another selection of cards for hubby to take to work when he is djing at a wedding. I used an assortment of digi stamps from Pink Petticoat and Digistamp Boutique, some paper offcuts and lace, ribbon, gems and flowers which were in a pot on my desk. 

See you soon

November wedding

At the beginning of November I had an order for a wedding for a lovely couple who were getting married in a stately hall and wanted a vintagey feel to the wedding. The bride's dress was champagne lace so everything was based around that.

These invitations and matching RSVP cards have been a big hit, in fact I did 3 orders in a row with them last summer.

 Other items for the first wedding above are as follows

and

 

I also made the Bride's head piece and the place cards :) They are a really lovely couple. I've known Judith (the Bride) for a long time as her sister is a dear friend of mine, and I wish them and all my lovely couples from last year a long and happy life together. 

I look forward to meeting a lot more couples this year talking of which we have our first Open Evening of the year at the Holiday Inn, J36 A1M Doncaster on 30th January this year. If you are thinking of getting married in Doncaster this year, or next, then come along and talk to us. It's a lovely informal evening where not only do you get the chance to see both venues, The Manor Complex and Warmsworth Hall, laid out for a wedding, you get the chance to speak to the recommended suppliers without being jostled and having leaflets shoved in your face lol. If you do come along, please come and say hello :) xx

Handmade wedding invitations

This is the reason I love my job so much  (as well as having a warm and cosy craft room at home so not having to venture outside when the weather is lousy) but I get to play weddings and meet the nicest couples/brides and bridesmaids/families and they like my work enough to let me have one of the main roles in their weddings. I feel completely honoured to be lucky enough to make the stationery for them :) 

I would like to add at this stage that we, Party Nights Creations have a sale on at the moment. If you order your day and/or evening invitations during the month of December you will receive a discount of 10% as seen in Wedding Ideas.

I had another invitation order collected on Wednesday morning and another happy bride, thank you Catherine.

I made a seating plan, guest book and favours with name tags for the wedding on Saturday for Sue and Paul

and some more Thank You cards for Judith and Howard

and I also made some cards for the new Kathy's Waffle challenge which goes live tomorrow.
Thanks for dropping by and I'll see you later.

New Wedding Downloads

We have no less than  FOUR new backing paper collections for you to download from the Funky Hand web site. This time it's a wedding collection. As usual the papers are very versatile so they can be used for anything, not just weddings. You will find the backing papers and png alphabet collections in delicious seasonal colours. Take a look at them on the web site, you could be crafting with them shortly.


Next up are the new digital stamps.

This new stamp collections are called Doodlewords and that's just what they are. Sentiments that you can colour and paper piece. They make great toppers on cards or sentiments on scrapbook pages, make them as muted or as zingy as you like. They are available to buy now on the web site......go on, you know you need them :)

Don't forget to let us know either via the blog or via the Funky Hand Facebook page what you have been crafting with the Funky Hand goodies.

Thanks for dropping by.

Funky Friday

I have a mammoth post for today's Funky Hand post as I've used quite a lot of my scraps up (I still haven't made a dent in the mountain though) so without further ado here we go.

These cards have all been made using the new wedding downloads from Funky Hand which have yet to be released.

What a muppet! I've just come to my blog to write a post for today and the one I wrote last night for yesterday's Funky Friday was just sitting there staring at me, I completely forgot to publish it!!! :))

I'll be back later with Saturday's post, I promise :)
Take care and thanks for dropping by.

Kanban Thursday

Another week has passed and we're here again! I've gone for Kanban weddings this week with Mrs & Mrs, Mr & Mrs and Mr & Mr cards.

 KB159

8 x 8 blank card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901601 Language of Flowers 12 x 12 paper pad

901602 Language of Flowers 12 x 3 paper pad

901531 Mrs & Mrs toppers

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

Heart Sentiment

Gem 5mm Crystal AB

 KB160

8 x 8 blank card

ACEBU1WH Acetate Butterfly

ACEBU1WH Acetate Border

Gem 5mm Bling – Gold

900773 Romantic Script background card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901526 A Day To Remember

A4MRGO  Gold mirri card

Occasions 1 Sentiment

KB162

BC200WH8 8 x 8 blank card

901539 Love & Marriage paper pad

901532 Mr & Mr toppers

A4MRSI Silver Mirri card

Gem 3mm Bling - Turquoise

I hope you like them and as always, I hope you find some inspiration from my work. If you are a Kanban fan then please join our We Love Kanban page on Facebook....the work in the gallery is just amazing! You can now buy all Kanban products from the new shop either in person or online. It's called Crafted By You and is based in Shipley, West Yorkshire.

Thanks for dropping by :)

Exploding box

..........ordered for a wedding. What a brief!! The bride's dress is amber and the couple are into guinea pigs, rabbits and cars and the bride isn't having a bouquet, she is carrying feathers and beads.

I pushed this one around my table for a few days and finally decided that I really needed to do it today. I started it about lunch time and finished about half an hour ago and boy has it given me a headache :) I managed the rabbits, feathers and beads, oh and a brass car charm the rest had me in a quandry. Anyway, this is what I came up with

The stripey paper is My Minds Eye and I just love it, will definitely need more ;) Other assorted bits and bobs are from my hoard!

Blush!!

Ooh, look what I got from KathyB. I've never had an award before and envied like crazy everyone who has, even more so the lucky popular people who get loads LOL

Thank you Kathy, I'm touched (and grateful for the award too ;))

Not got any work to show today. I have the swing card to finish off and have been plodding through a wedding order today whilst trying to transfer all the files from my old lap top to my new one. Not easy when you have a poorly kitty on your knee and an impatient 14 year old leaning over your shoulder! She is having the old one to replace her old one which is going to my mum and dad (are you still with me??) Anyway, she seems to think that everything should have been off it within 10 minutes of it coming out of the box!! Might make her wait ;) -what a rotten mother I am LOL

DS liked his Simpsons card. Well he said it was "well cool" so I think that's what he meant :))

I will be back tomorrow with something to show, I promise.

ttfn