Wedding invitations - January - March 2011

In January, I started designing these wedding invitations. The colour theme was dark purple, with not many other theme-y ideas decided, so I went to the craft shop to get various things I could use on invitation designs. I cam back with white A4 card, dark purple A4 paper, translucent paper decorated with purple flowers, purple ribbon, silver skeleton leaves and silver stick-on decorations.

Using these, I came up with four different designs for an invitation card based on a folded A5 piece of card:

Simple design with just coloured paper and a silver leaf

Split the card horizontally between plain purple paper
and translucent flowery paper with a ribbon hiding the transition,
with a silver leaf on the bottom half.

Card split vertically between patterned paper and
plain white card, ribbon under the translucent paper.
Two silver leaves near the open edge.

Card split vertically with plain white card and purple paper,
ribbon down the folded edge and a skeleton leaf in the centre.

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We chose the fourth design, replacing the copper coloured skeleton leaf with a silver one. The ribbon also changed in the final version to a more solid purple as the translucent ribbon tended to unravel at the ends where they were attached to the inside of the card. Final design shown below:

Unfolded final invitation.

 Orders of service will be shown in a later post.

Birthday card - 28/3/11

I'll start this blog of crafts with a birthday card which I made this morning. The card is a pre-folded A5/A6 card. Decorating it are paper miniature flowers and ribbon with lilac paper as a background. It's unlined and the lettering is done by hand.

 The flowers are meant to be white calla lilies and purple rosebuds. I bought these pre-made.