Thank you card

A quick card from me today using one of my favourite product ranges from Kanban Crafts. The design sheets are fabulous for making quick modern cards 

Materials used are: 6x6" scallop edged card blank, silver mirri card, topper & elements are Friendship Lollipops & Mats Kanban 901567, clear gems and paper is from the Love & Marriage paper pad 901539.

I'll try to come back later with today's work as I'm in favour box mode today and am making them for an open evening (wedding fayre) on Thursday evening at the Holiday Inn, Doncaster from 6pm till 9pm. If you're looking to get married in the Doncaster area this is the place I would recommend. There are two fabulous venues which will be set up as for a wedding and the top recommended suppliers will be there to chat with you. The difference between a wedding fayre and an open evening is that we DO have the time to speak to you properly unlike at a wedding fayre when there are loads of exhibitors all vying for your attention.

If you do come along then please come and say hello, I'm the one with the wedding stationery. xx

Progress

The favour boxes are finished and boxed ready to go

all 190 place cards are all cut and folded, the guest's names are typed up ready to be printed and mounted tomorrow before being stuck onto the place cards so all I have left to do is 100 orders of service and a seating plan and it is all being collected on Saturday ready for the wedding on Monday!! I'm going to bed now just in case it's the last chance I get until Saturday :( (oh and I have a school Christmas fayre to do on Thursday. My mum was going to do it but I think she is going to be too poorly still. She is back at the doc's in the morning for her x-ray results.......I wonder if the doc fancies doing it if my mum can't lol)

Night and thanks for reading.

My poor fingers.....

Good morning from me on this rather dank and miserable morning!!

My poor fingers are so sore this morning. Why?.....because while I sat watching TV last night I tied 190 bows!!

 Later today they will be attached to 190 pillow boxes which I am making up at the moment. I then have to cut, fold and print 190 place cards but I have a big problem. The wedding is next Monday and I still don't have a guest list to work from to add the guest's names to the place cards and seating plan!! I really love my work and couldn't imagine doing anything else now but it can be so frustrating at times lol

Right, onwards and upwards, the favour boxes won't finish themselves.

TFL xx

Do me a favour!!

I have a wedding a week on Friday where I am doing the table centres, favours and the post box. There is a black, red and white theme to the tables as the groom is a Doncaster Rovers fan!! The table centres are fish bowls with red water, black bear grass or onion grass and white roses. They look really nice and I will post photos when I set them up at the venue.

Up until now, this is as far as I've got with the order....the favours.

As you can see, the boxes are red and white and they contain heart shaped Belgian chocolates in red, black and white on a bed of white tissue paper.

Back on Thursday after the Alzheimer's 'do'. :)

Friday Sketchers

My next 'creation' ;) was made using last week's sketch from Friday Sketchers

I made some commissioned albums a few weeks ago and these boxes were the only ones I could find to fit. I wanted slightly smaller but deeper boxes but the only way I could get what I wanted was to have them made. The only problem was that I had to order a minimum of 500! That would be ok if I knew that I was going to make another 496 albums but I don't plus I don't have anywere to store them. As the boxes weren't exactly what I was looking for I decided to decorate and give them to my customers foc. Out of the three boxes I decorated today, this has to be my favourite.

Papers - K & Co and Summer Driggs (check out Summer's blog, she has some fantastic freebie papers over there)

bfn

Hide and Seek

The Daring Cardmaker's dare from last Friday is set by Jozza and she says 'This week the dare is hide and seek. I would like to see a hidden message or element on your cards. For a double dare include both! I tend to make very straightforward cards as a rule so this was a challenge for me but I have to say there are some great tutorials out there if you are stuck for ideas.'

I've been looking at this off cut of paper by Imagination for months now and wondering what I could use it for (I can't remember what I used the first half for :)) but in a sudden flash of inspiration I thought of the DCM dare. I decided to cut the flowers out rather than just use it as a flat piece of paper. The flowers were bunched together in colour groups and took blooming ages cutting them all out. The little white flowers were from an off cut of K & Co borders and the butterfly is from the remains of a pack from Crafty Bitz. The greeting on the tag is a SeeDee stamp from an anniversary set.
These are a few bits I made for a shop in town where I advertise my wedding stationery. They had to go this morning and I finally finished them at 1.30 this morning. They change the colour of the window display once a month and this month it's teal.

Now I'm back to the place cards.............9 down, 63 to go :)

BFN