A few favours

If you have been following my blog you will know that I was responsible for making the wedding favours for my friends wedding in Mallorca.  You can see the previous designs here.  

The final design chosen was the plain butterflies with the Champagne Glitter paper and I also made some standing place cards for the children using the Scallop Circle die - you can just see them to the right of the photo.

And a close up:

It was a lovely wedding and I can safely say, thankfully it went without any problems, despite me being in charge of the table plan, wedding favours and hair ;).

I forgot to take a picture of the hair in all it's glory, but managed to grab a couple of photos towards the end of the afternoon after the curls had dropped a little - I'm still proud of it though!

With or without the champagne glitter paper?

If you have been following my recent posts you will know that I am helping with wedding favours for my best friends wedding next month (see Playing with wedding favours post).

Now we have a confirmed theme of butterflies, I've had to resort to the retired Butterfly punch to help me out.  The Beautiful Butterflies embosslits die would work just as well but unfortunately it doesn't allow for printing of the bride and groom's names on the back very easily!

Here is my batch of samples which are being mulled over - which would you pick, with or without the Champagne glitter paper that is still available?

Materials:

Butterfly punch (retired);

Card - Pink Pirouette;

Embossing folder - Vintage Wallpaper;

Flowers - non Stampin' Up!;

Champage Glimmer paper - rolled over from the Autumn/Winter catalogue, you can order a pack for £4.50 (item 127885).

Playing with wedding favours

I've been busy creating ideas for my best friends wedding next month :).  

It's not very easy with limited crafting stash as I only got back to the UK at the weekend and I'm crashing at my parents currently! However a crafter always has bits which will make do ;)...

Here are the wine glass charms I made using the Heart Punch, before being told that the theme is actually butterflies - doh!

Other materials are non Stampin' Up! as I was making do of course :(.

Check back soon for the corrected theme ideas ...

Something for the table

Well, despite not planning on celebrating Christmas this year I have prepared just in case and have made these little wine glass charms for the table on Christmas day.  They were created with the Scentsational Season stamp set from the Autumn/Winter catalogue and some skrink paper (non Stampin' Up!).

I'm really pleased with these, here's a close up :).

I've just used the stamps as they are and inked in each of Real Red, Marina Mist, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip directly onto the skrink plastic and then shrunk them with a heat gun.  I've then threaded a selection of beads onto a 'earring hoop' and ta dah!

This is a great stamp set for doing this sort of thing as the size shrinks down just right... need to identify some other sets that I can use for the same idea for another time?

Wine glass charms

I've totally neglected my other crafting stash since I signed up as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, but have started to use some of the items from there with Stampin' Up! products. 

One of my favourite gifts are wine glass charms - which are great for parties (see here).  With Christmas and New Year fast approaching now is the time to get these out again :).

And of course these are ideal to fit into those lovely little boxes that I showed you yesterday...

Here are the charms laid out so you can take a better look:

These are made from hoops that are usually made into 'earrings' and I have threaded on beads and charms. 

If you have never seen these before, the idea is that you give one to each guest at a dinner party and they open and attach the charm to the bottom of their wine glass.  They will then be able to locate their glass for the rest of the evening.  It's great as it saves on glasses (!) and it adds that little touch to your dinner party.  I've had lots of people ask me to make a set for them after they have been over to dinner at mine... I'm now working on a few Christmas themed ones, which I will share with you soon :).