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

What's on your work desk Wednesday....

is here again folks! I can't believe I haven't blogged since Friday..and I was doing so well and managing to post every day (I think) :) Not to worry. I've had a busy start to the week, I don't seem to have stopped but also I don't seem to have achieved much. I do have some cards to show thou as well as my scruffy room. It took me all afternoon today to tidy it up (again). I had only made five cards and totally destroyed the room again. I did keep a tiny space to work in again though. I'm onto samples and a stationery order again this week so it should stay relatively tidy as all my bits are neatly placed in a basket so I won't need to half empty every box I own lol

So now I will reveal my devastation :)

And here is one of the cards which caused such chaos lol (I'll add the rest later.)

I'm off to bed now, thanks for looking and I will be back later to start hopping around the blog world. Should you want to join in with us please take a look at The Stamping Ground and all will be revealed.

PS I forgot to say that I will be submitting this to the Daring Cardmakers challenge for this week as their theme is
'Don't Worry, Be Happy' 
I'd like you to make a card / project containing some 'happy', whether you choose a sentiment such as Happy Birthday or Happy Christmas, or a card that has a happy theme to it!

Wedding stationery

It's Wednesday again and I can't believe it's it's a week since my lap top was so poorly. Luckily I didn't lose anything it just caused my son 24 hours of blooming hard work! I'm still trying to recover and change passwords as I visit different sites as all my history was wiped so my passwords went along with that, I'm getting there though.


So now onto the real reason of my post and that is because today is What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #139 which is organised by the lovely Julia on her Stamping Ground blog. I would like to offer huge apologies for not visiting anyone last week but I had a bit of a computer problem (see below). I will make sure I poke my nose into the craft spaces this week though and thanks for all the visits I got.


My desk

as you see, I'm in wedding stationery mode at the moment. These will be finished and collected today then it's straight onto the next lot of 75 which are going on Friday :)


Also while I'm here, take a peep at Crafty Linby's blog. She has some fab candy on offer.

Right, back to my invitations now so I can take time later to start visiting the WOYWW bloggers later. 
TFL

Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Tis here again (although I missed it last week, I left my camera at work with my photos on!!) anyway, it's over to the Julia's Stamping Ground blog to have nosey at everyone's workdesks!

Here's mine

 Tomorrow is my mum's birthday and the cards on my desk are the ones I made her this morning, next to the cards are some commissioned birthday invitations, the blue basket and the lilac basket on my drawer contain the last stages of two wedding orders I'm doing. On top of the bookcase behind the drawer is a box full of favours and there is a basket on this side of the desk with more wedding orders in. oh and there is a box on the floor next to my desk with an invitation order in it. Guess who is working late tomorrow and staying over at the shop! :)

Back soon. x

PS If anyone wants to see the finished beaded handbag it can be seen here

Stationery orders

I'm in the process of clearing off my desktop on my lap top which is where I dump all my pictures till I sort them. I know it's a bad habit and I should really put them straight onto my external hard drive but I don't, then I have a mammoth session like tonight where it takes me bloomin hours to sort it out lol

So these orders were from back in June!!

A fortieth birthday

A wedding

100 thank you cards (made on Monday and Tuesday of last week!)

Oh, and a couple of Father's Day pressies!

I made two of the 'Pints of socks' and one of them also had a packet of Maltesers tucked inside it.

Thanks again for dropping by :)

Wedding menus, place cards etc

One of my lovely brides and grooms got married on Sunday and I did all the reception stationery last week for them. Time was so tight with it I worked all night on Thursday and it was one of those jobs where everything goes wrong. You know what I mean? I ordered the wrong card by mistake then the card I wanted was out of stock. I showed the alternative card to my groom and he liked so I went to order more and the supplier had run out of that one too. It should have been delivered last Wednesday morning but was delayed till Friday which meant they could get it to me on Monday!! Anyway, it all turned out alright in the end.....the supplier received a delivery of just enough card for my order and hubby drove down to pick it up......phew!

Orders of service

Place cards

 Table names

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 Tri fold menus

 Seating plan

The seating plan has a spray of Swarovski crystal coming from the top of the bottle but the camera hasn't picked them up.
Post box

They certainly picked a fabulous day to get married, the weather was absolutely fabulous. I'm really looking forward to seeing the photos.

Thanks for looking.

Wedding stationery and.....

Christening invitations (which I have been making alongside my wedding stationery for the last six years. I feel the need to add that bit as last time I added Christening invitations to my blog, I was accused of copying someone else....a bit rich really, as it turns out!!!) Sorry about that, I just needed to say it.

Anyway onto the Christening invitations

I was really pleased when this order came in as I made mummy and daddy's wedding stationery two years ago. This is the second such order this year :)
and the wedding stationery consists of 36 day invitations with reply cards and 100 evening invitations which are being delivered today.

More of my stationery can be seen here

Right...DT work here I come, then it's an exploding box and a rubbing wedding album!

Have a nice weekend and let's hope the sunshine stays with us.

Wedding stationery

Not around as much as I'd like at the mo but I'm up to my ears in wedding stationery orders (which is just how I lik it :)) so here are my latest offerings. These are from the wedding last Saturday

Will be back :)

Bad blogger (again)

I made a pact with myself to try to blog every day once I'd got the Christmas rush out of the way (even if I didn't have work to show) but that seems to have fallen by the wayside again!! If anyone knows where I could get another five hours a day I would be very grateful :)) So this week so far I have:
finished a wedding stationery order

You can't actually tell from the photo but the pink bows are on the stems of crossed champagne flutes!
Made 20 extra invitations for a client whose order I finished before Christmas

Cuttlebug Paisley embossing folder and red gems.
Made evening invitations for a friend

and then last night I made these

after a Nicki asked on a forum if anyone would like to help. Tonight I will make some navy blue ones and DH is calling on his way home to get me some more fleece (throws from Primark....£2 each and I got four hats and four scarves out of the pink one!!) They have been embellished with assorted flowers cut with the Big Shot from felt which have been glued on (it's the first time I've cut fabric with dies!) and assorted buttons which have been stitched on.

I've got one more post to do which will be my 800th so I think a little blog candy might be in the offing. I will try to get something sorted today and post either later on or tomorrow.

Thanks for looking.

Weddings

.......are taking up the majority of my time at the moment (like approximately 16 hours a day) It's a good job I enjoy my work :)

Here are a few of the items that have kept me up over the last couple of months!! LOL


I've used a variety of items but it seems to predominantly QK dies and Nesties :)

BFN xx

Wedding work

Two more orders finished and delivered this week which means two more happy brides :)


I now have a card, a money wallet and an album to make for the same customer, for her friends wedding, which I need to sort today and two cards for DH to take to work this weekend. The chances are that I will be back later with more work and I also have my Debbi Moore samples to blog about.

Take care :)