well the wedding was yesterday and now there is a lull.

Here are some final pictures of the wedding bits n bobs.  The fascinator we made for the evening after the bride took her very very long veil off.  Then there are the photos of the tables and room after it was decorated with the things I have made over the last few months.  The place cards with the roses, the rose cone towers as tabe centres, the little favour cards to say they were making a donation to the Alzheimers Society, the table numbers and the top table decorations which were roseballs on dowels in a vase to look like a topiary tree.  The final photos are the decorations I did at their house this morning for them coming home.  They were staying at their own house tonight and leaving for honeymoon tomorrow lucky sods. Anyway Ill hush now and put the photos on for everyone to see.
Please do leave comments on what you think of the decorations and the layout, I love to hear how these things are received.

and I think that is enough photos, cos im getting carried away, I enjoyed doing this so much!

This is a quick collage I made of the things Ive done so far for this wedding in July 2010. Im quite excited so I am sure the bride must be having kittens. Now I can see everything coming together and the invitations are going out today I am on the home straight with the preparations. All the rose towers are done and the table plan is almost finished, the order of service and the menus are all complete. The place cards are done and the rsvps are all in the invites ready to be posted, and I made a tiny gift list heart from a punch I had in the craft room so I didnt need to amend the invite to hold details of the gift list in a well known department store. Ah well lets just hope the brides big day goes as smoothly as all the preparations have :o) I cannot believe I made almost three thousand paper roses to go on the twelve towers we finally made and then another 120 for place cards. Origami roses are now bottom of my list for cards for at least the next few months until the blisters on my fingers heal :OP

collage of the bride n groom ....ahhh so sweet!

wedding collage I made for the forthcoming wedding I have been working on the roses for. The idea is to use this as a background for the table plan. I intend to mount this on an A2 canvas, distress the edges and silver them, then I need to arrange tables print a list of who is sitting where, cut an ovalaround the details and silver the edges of them and stick them on the canvas collage here.  JOB DONE WAHEY!

JJ friends birthday card

JJ's little friends birthday was the other day and we made a card together.  We went for a wild jungle theme.  Large chipboard letters spelled his name and age 4 but the rest was made up as we went along.  I used a sheet of acetate across the front, bowed to create depth and used the cropodile to punch holes along the top of the acetate which I then tied green ribbon onto to create a treeish junglish theme.

The  little animals are cut from foam using the cricut expression animal kingdom and I used a pipe cleaner or as they call them on the shopping channels .....chenille sticks :o)........to bend round into loops to look like a main on the little lion.  Then as a final touch I put tiny googly eyes on both the elephant, monkey hiding behing my ribbon tree and the lion to make them a bit more comic. One chipboard word clip saying wild thing finished the card.  I can see where I would like to change the card but the recipient was after all 4 years old so I left it and resisted temptation to take bits off and change them.

JJ's birthday cake

JJ (Justin John) had a birthday the other week and I felt like baking a cake rather than buying one.  So I opened one of his new birthday toys.....oh dont panic he still got to play with it after the icing was washed off........and I used it to help decorate the cake.  A standard sponge with a layer of green icing which I rolled using a patterned roller to imitate grass and dirt.  Then I used coconut mushrooms as trees, chocolate sprinkles as the hole in the ground and then bob and the digger.  Simple and relatively plain but he loved it.