Crafty As L

This week’s card is a commission I received from a friend for a wedding card.   The brief I had was that the bride is a New Yorker, the groom is Scottish, they are having their wedding celebration on the shores of Loch Ness, to blend a NY skyline into a Scottish theme and add their names.   Plenty to chew on there!   I love the challenge of trying to bring someone’s ideas to life. It seemed sensible to start with the background, which I did by spraying card with a variety of Distress Spray Stains and Oxides.   I found a free SVG download of a New York skyline and cut that from vellum using my Cricut.   I’m not sure of the accuracy of the skyline but the Statue of Liberty adds enough clarity for the buildings to be a bit off.   Using the negative from the cutting as mask, I stencilled the buildings and statue.   I then added some wave tops by white heat-embossing waves from Inkylicious’ By The Waves stamp set.   Now imagine all that in orange...

  Towards the end of last year, my friend asked me if I would help her with her wedding invitations.  I was really honoured to be asked! She and her fiancé didn’t really have any ideas with regard to the style of invitations but that their wedding colour would be purple.  After trawling Pinterest to see what is fashionable now, I made 8 invitations for the couple to choose from.  Some were stamped, some were from Cricut’s project library and some I designed from scratch.  I was so chuffed when they chose my own design. My design was based on the bride and groom’s initials and an ampersand, all woven together.  I used my Cricut to cut these out of purple card and also cut out the initials themselves from silver card. Since the card would be a gatefold, I wanted a belly band to hold the card closed.  This was decorated with a glitter heart and some purple and white ribbon. The wording for the inside was done on the computer and p...