Invitations - 20/4/11

These are some ideas I was trying out for hen party invitations, to go inside the wedding invitations. I found some cards in the shape of a dress, so I am going to make the invitations in a dress shape but only one piece of card so the decorations will be on one side and the writing on the other.

This one follows more of the shape of a dress

This one uses the dress as background

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These cards are mostly made with pre-made stick on decorations. The big flower is cut out of semi transparent paper and stuck on.
I think the one with a pink background uses the shape of the dress better and is more delicate, so the eventual invitations will probably look more like that than the other.

Notelet - 4/4/11

I was listening to a programme on the radio about how writing actual letters (not emails) is good, and I remembered that I owe a friend a letter from Christmas time. (The programme is available until next Sunday 10th April from iPlayer if you're interested)

I have some notelets but I thought it would be nice to make her a card as she is quite a crafty person herself. I wrote the letter and then I decorated the card. Here it is:

The design is done so that the card is landscape but it would look just as good on a portrait card as well:

It is made from a white pre-folded A6 card, pink paper, flowers from the patterned purple translucent paper and copper coloured skeleton leaves.
I seem to be keeping the postal system in business lately, I'm sending so many cards. I had forgotten how much I liked making them!

New baby card - 2/4/11

This is a card for a new baby called Dawn, hence the sunrise:

Landscape card of a sunrise: folded card, coloured paper, gold star, silver pen and white ribbon.
You can't quite see in the photo but the paper colours are pale pink, orange and dark blue, with bright yellow for the sun's rays. The silver dots in the sky are supposed to be tiny stars.

UPDATE: the parents liked the card so much they are framing it to put up in the baby's room! Success!

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.