Aren't they cute....

My brother (Reg) and sister-in-law (Emily) arrived last night from Alberta for the wedding. Picked them up at the airport almost without an incident. I had received a voice mail saying they were arriving at 9:05 p.m. We went to the airport waited, watched everybody get off, pick up their luggage and there was nobody for us. I assumed I must have got the day wrong, drove back home checked the message.....no, I had heard right....phone rings......they are at the airport. They were put on a second flight as there had been some plane problems. So went back out, picked them up and proceeded to stay up late trying to catch up on news. Good thing they are here for a few days cause there is lots of catching up to do!

Now onto the project. I decided the table that will hold the book for guests to sign should have a picture of the happy couple. This picture was taken in our backyard about a month ago. The saying at the top is the same wording that I put on the big banner for behind the head table that was posted earlier in the week. I have a scrapbooking program that I did the writing on and printed it off. The doves and the scrolls down the side of the page are done using the cricut. I had found some pretty white ribbon a few weeks ago and it had some gold swirls on it and went perfectly. To finish it off I bought a 3-D scrapbook frame to hold the picture. The nice part about the frame is the picture can be changed at anytime and the one you take out will fit into a 12 x 12 album.

I also did the wedding card last night but I won't post that for a couple days yet!

Plans for the day include visiting and driving around the area a bit before the wind and rain arrives.

Be safe tonight.

Yvonne
PS - Now might be a good time to start having good thought about no rain for Friday afternoon. I'm starting to stalk the weather channel for updates. lol

Polished Stone

HI Everyone - time is getting more valuable each day so please be patient as my posts are getting farther apart. One week today to the wedding. My brother flies in tomorrow night from Alberta so better get the spare room cleaned. Actually it's clean....it's the rest of the house that isn't.

Todays post is done using rubbing alcohol and re-inkers. You ask, "What is a re-inker?" The little bottles of ink that you used to refill your ink pads when they go dry. The technique is called "Polished Stone". You can achieve the same look by using the brand of alcohol inks. You will need an applicator that felt will stick to or simply a piece of felt if you don't mind your fingers getting a little dirty. On the felt apply about 3 drops of ink of one color and then 3 drops of another color. Try not to have the colors overlap. Now find the ink bottle that is metallic (used on the gold or silver ink pads). Apply about 3 drops of that too. Next ger out your rubbing alcohol and apply alcohol to make the felt wet. You don't want it dripping but it needs to be wet. Lastly use a piece of glossy cardstock (yes, it needs to be glossy) and dab your felt all over the glossy cardstock to make a background. You want to cover the entire piece of cardstock. As you are doing this the metallic ink will actually make gold veins on the paper. It looks really pretty. You can go over the area you already covered and it won't hurt it. So if you don't quite like the look you go the first time you can go back and rework it. Lastly take your black ink and a stamp and apply your image. A word of caution - don't overdue the metallic ink as it doesn't want to dry very well.

Time to get ready for work. Have a great week-end and I hope to post tomorrow.

Yvonne

Diamond Stickles

I'm going to start by saying,"The scan doesn't do the card justice." The background is the "Snowflakes" folder from Cuttlebug done on Whisper White Cardstock. I then used the Diamond stickles overtop of each of the snowflakes. Sometimes the snowflakes are covered almost completely and others sparingly. Wrapped a nice wide white organdy ribbon with a BIG bow around the card. Stamped the image twice, once on navy cardstock with white ink and Iridescent Ice EP and once on white cardstock with navy blue ink and Iridescent Ice EP.
The card just shimmers as it sits on my desk.

After my post on Saturday I did both things I was contemplating...I made a big batch of chocolate chip cookies and I did a scrapbook page to place on the guest signing table of the soon to be married couple. I will probably post it tomorrow. I need more sticky tabs to finish it.

Sundays workout consisted of getting the yard in order. I trimmed up all the bushes, got rid of the dead flowers. Wow, I think this is the first year I did yard work in the fall. I usually decide it's too cold to be outside and the work will still be there in the spring. It was a beautiful day to be outside and you know, it only took a couple of hours to get things done. When Kev & I finished that we took a little drive to the beach for some small rocks for the pond and then I got to go out to supper. Perfect....no cooking for me.

Thanks for checking in with me!

Yvonne

Wedding Banner

Less than two weeks to the "Wedding Day"! It's coming so quickly....and still lots to do/create. lol This is the banner that will hang in the hall. The saying I saw posted on a chat group. She had cut the letters out of vinyl and put them on a wall.

I used the Cricuit to cut out the letters and shapes. The doves are from the Wedding cartridge, the burgundy letters from Storybook and the black writing is from the Jasmine cartridge. I love that little machine....so quick. To make the font into handwriting I also used the Cricut Design Studio. Everything is mounted on white paper however my photography seems to have altered the nice white a bit.

Off to work on my next project or bake, not sure which yet.

Enjoy the week-end.

Yvonne

Snowflakes

Good Morning....Some of the posts I do for the next few days maybe from cards/items I've made sometime ago. Okay, more than sometime ago. Maybe the phrase should be "Once Upon A Time"! Wedding preparations and work are taking up crafting time.
To make this card you will use two different colors of paper. You could use two different patterns of paper and not have to do any stamping. Either way you will need 8 square pieces of paper - 4 of each color/design. The squares are probably about 1". I don't have the card in front of me to measure but they can't be very large cause it won't fit on a standard card. You alter it into a pinwheel by glueing the squares together - one pattern is placed diagonally and the other is placed as a square.. If you have one of those crafters mats that you can cut on (also called self-healing mat) some of those have a line graph printed on them. There will be your standard lines for measuring, like a ruler and then there are lines that are diagonal. Use those for lining up your squares. See the mat below. Thought you might need a visual as my directions (well I don't think I could even follow them) are lacking clarity this morning. I did place a brad in the centre when I was finished.

Must run...the clock is ticking and I need to get out the door. Have fun crafting today. If you have questions about how to do this, drop me an e-mail and I can try to be more descriptive.

Bye!

Yvonne (I'm really late now...let's hope for no traffic)

Fall Is Here...

Boy I wish a day had more than 24 hours. I seem to be on the run from 6:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m. everyday. Oh well, I know it will slow down soon.

The background on this card is done using the cuttlebug leaf folder. It's been embossed on cardstock that has been covered with tinfoil and alcohol inks to alter the tinfoil. The leaves are embossed with a real rust embossing powder, cut out and raised with dimensionals. The card shows better in person as you get the depth perception better.

Another busy day and I teach tonight at The Cutting Garden. Another Cuttlebug class and one tomorrow night too! This is a similiar version of one of the cards we'll be doing tomorrow night. I've also managed to cut out, so far, two of the three leaves to go on their cards! If you're reading this bring good scissors to class.

Enjoy your day and I hope you get some time in stamping.....BTW nobody told me what was new on my blog.....here's a hint....rub her tummy!

Yvonne

Lace Tree

Must be time to start thinking about Christmas cards. I used the Cuttlebug folder "Lace Tree" on this card. I did see a similiar card on another blog that prompted me to make this one. There are little pearls on parts of the design (click on the picture for a close up), the salutaton is embossed in gold and the stamp is from a retired Stampin' Up set. The ribbon is from Walmart. I used ivory cardstock and the gold paper is paperweight. Very nice as it doesn't add extra weight to the card.
This design on this particular folder takes up the full length of the folder so if you want to use the whole image you are going to have to make larger cards or not layer.

That's all for today.

Yvonne