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

Wedding Wednesday

I've had loads of work on this last couple of weeks so I apologise for not blogging on a regular basis again, it's a good job that I really love my work :) Before I post my wedding work for this month I'm going to have a moan about some of the stationery companies around at the moment.

I would like to say that if you start a wedding stationery business and you build yourself a web site, please, please, please get someone to proof read it for you or if you don't have anyone to do it then for goodness sake use a spell checker! The amount of 'companies' who, when advertising what they do write 'wedding stationAry' instead of 'stationerEry' is amazing. Hopefully you will be part of a young (or not so young) couple's wedding day which is probably the biggest task they have ever undertaken. The last thing they want is to open their stationery order to find that it's all spelt wrongly. Another big, big mistake I have seen on the front of so many hand crafted greeting cards the abbreviated spelling of YOU ARE. It is not (for example) 'YOUR having a baby', you are joining the two words together and in order to do that you need to use the apostrophe to replace the letter which you are removing so therefore the word would be  YOU'RE as you are taking out the 'A'.

Another thing which 'bugs'me is presenting shoddy work at live events such as wedding fayres. Every now and again I visit a wedding fayre just to see what the 'opposition' is up to and I've found that by talking to the people who own bridal boutiques they will tell you what colours are in fashion and what people are ordering for the next year even. It was at a small wedding fayre a couple of years ago that I was handed a little organza bag with a single sugared almond in it, it also contained a business card and a badly folded leaflet outlining their business and this....

Not a very good business advert in my opinion, but there you go, rant over :)!

So what have I been up to....

 

Further seating plans can be seen on my web site at Party Nights Creations .co.uk (all in lower case) or on my Facebook page

 

 This is such a pretty wallet. The camera hasn't picked up the glitter on it but you might be able to see it better on the next picture, I just changed the ribbon from white to navy blue to suit the couple's wedding colours. They are getting married in January next year and this pocket fits in with their snowy theme perfectly. It really is so pretty.

another hotel wedding.

Right, I'm making 83 place cards so I'm off now till tomorrow, thanks for dropping by, I would love for you to leave me a comment  :)
Thank you. x

Wedding fayre

I've been meaning to post these photos since I got back from the wedding fayre yesterday but I got stuck into sorting my room out and forgot all about them. This was the first time I have been to a  Pastures Lodge Hotel wedding fayre, I have made the stationery and table decorations for a couple of weddings there but have never actually been to a wedding fayre. We had quite a good day even though it didn't stop raining once all day.

 I'm still stuck  into my stationery for the wedding on 24th but have almost finished. I've been making labels all day for 150 cake boxes :)


I must go and do a bit more before bed. Take care and I will see you tomorrow with the new sketch for Kathy's Waffle Sketch File

A couple of quick makes

A male 50th and a wedding card.

All papers are from the Colour Me Happy cd by Funky Hand. The numbers are hand cut using wooden letters as templates (and scissors ;)) and I used Nesties for the circles and a Sizzix thin die for the corners. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards

The wedding card is another commissioned card made at the end of last week

This card was made using patterned card from my 'scrap' drawer, paper flowers, ribbon from stock and another Craftwork Cards sentiment.

I ran out of time again last week as I had a wedding fayre on Sunday and I always seem to end up with loads to do. My next one is coming up in June and I plan to be ready in plenty of time..........well that's the plan :))

Thanks for looking.

wedding favours

Made for a wedding fayre last month and will be used again for another in a couple of weeks time. I'm a recommended supplier for one of the local hotels and when we have a wedding fayre/open day the venue is always dressed so that people can get a rough idea what it would look like set for a wedding. We had four tables set this time, each with a different colour scheme and these were my contribution.

and a seating plan made for the same fayre

Thanks again for looking.

Wedding fayres

Just thought I would let you know that I am still around! We have finished decorating the bungalow apart from the odd touch up once the furniture is in. My brother is in the process of fitting a new kitchen so as there isn't anything for me to do I have the day (well most of it) off to catch up with some of my work. I'm going over this evening with DH.....he is putting the curtain rails and blinds up and I'm going to vacuum through and wash the floors ready for the carpets being fitted tomorrow. They're not moving in until next Thursday as Dad has his stitches and clips out on Wednesday and he wants to stay with the nurse who has dressed it etc.

So, in between all this I've done a couple of wedding fayre and made some DT cards and made a necklace and........not done any hw though lol.

 This picture is of last week's table, I haven't taken this week's off the camera yet.

Thanks for looking, back soon.

Crown Jewels?

Not quite! A client came to see me a couple of weeks ago with three necklaces which she has had for quite a while but were so long and heavy she couldn't wear them. This is what they morphed into :)This necklace was lovely. The large flat beads had an almost mother of pearl effect, really pretty. I made two necklaces, a bracelet and a pair of earrings.

This next necklace is dark grey and out of this one I managed to make two necklaces, a bracelet and two pairs of earrings.

This one is the same as the one above but clear glass beads. Again, I managed two necklaces, two pairs of earrings and a bracelet. Exit one very happy customer :)

The final picture is of my table on Sunday at the wedding fayre. It was really difficult to get a decent photo as the lighting in the room wasn't very good and we had the glare of the window to contend with too. Not knowing much about photography or how to use the camera might have something to do with it LOL but it was actually DH who took the pics not me :)

Till next time, thanks for looking.