Sunrise Wedding

My other half's daughter is getting married in a sunrise ceremony on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean. I hope that she likes the card I designed.

I found the sunrise picture online, printed it out and made a frame using DCWV'S Mercury Glass stack. One of those things, saw the stack and had to have it even without a project and I'm glad I did, it was perfect for the frame.

It was hard to get a good picture of the card due to the brightness of the sun.

DT Day with Miss Kate's Cutables

It is my day to show off what I have created with a file from this month's sponsor, Miss Kate's Cutables.

I used the Forever Yours file to create this layout of my son's U.S. wedding (they had 2 ceremonies, one in his hometown in Michigan, one in her hometown in Japan) here is the happy couple.

This is a 12 x 12 layout, I printed the picture to be 5 x 7. I didn't resize any of the elements, I just cut them out without editing them in any way. I added some bling just because I love bling and like the way it looked. It is hard to see the tiny flowers on the paper I used to cut the flowers out of but I used paper the kids had brought me from Japan. The colors I used for this layout were colors that Miki had requested for the wedding decorations, flowers, etc.

 

Please come and join in the fun over at Connie Can Crop  this month and play along with our Sketch Challenge using this sketch:

 



 

Connie Can Crop - Sketch Challenge

It is time for a Sketch Challenge over at Connie Can Crop. We had this sketch to work with:

 

 

We are being sponsored by:

 

 

The winner gets 3 files from Miss Kate Designs.

 

 

I made 2 cards for this challenge:

 

 

They are exactly the same except for the colors. I made the colored version using scraps from a wedding scrapbook I just finished. The black and white version is scraps from the wedding scrapbook I had made for my niece. I used the, "Wedding Words" file from Miss Kate Designs. I resized the heart to measure 2" high and, "wedding" is 3/4" high. I cut the hearts out twice for each card so that I could mix up the colors.

 

Both cards measure: 4 1/2" wide x 6 1/4" high. The 3 strips are 1" wide x 4" tall.

 

The scalloped piece was created with a border punch from Martha Stewart.

 

Please come and join in the fun at Connie Can Crop.







Connie Can Crop Wild Blogiversary

Welcome to the 

Wild Blogiversary Blog Hop

Thank you for joining us for a week long celebration in honor of my 8th year here in Blog Land! These talented crafters have created all sorts of projects to inspire you and bring the wild animal in us all!!

 You should have arrived from Marji's Blog. If you just happened upon this spectacular hop, Connie Can Crop is the first stop in this hop. 

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday to finish hopping and leaving your comments for all of these amazing crafters.

 

We have an ten amazing sponsors for this anniversary hop!!

Connie's Crafty Cart- Sassafras Lass Stamps
Miss Kate Cuttables- 2 free SVG images
Kitty Bee Designs- 1 free digital stamp
Creative Memories- $25 gift certificate
Close to my Heart- Stamp Set and Ink
Stampin Up- Embossing Folder
Fun Stampers Journey- Stamp Set
Mermaids N Monograms- Adorable Mason Jar Glass
Little Scraps of Heaven- 2 $10 Gift Certificates
and
Paper Crafting World- $20 Gift Certificate

 

 

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become  a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 1/11/17

at Connie Can Crop.
And YES you can win more than one prize!! So be sure to leave your comments!!

Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

My project is a bit of a tongue in cheek long time family thing. To make a short story shorter, one day when my son was napping I made a stuffed skunk and when he woke up, he grabbed it and named him, "Mr. Skunk"  and they were BFF's until David grew up. All I could think of while I was cutting the black and white skunk was the song, "Puttin' on the Ritz" so............I decided to go with pictures of my son and I putting each other's flowers on for his US wedding. I found a ceramic skunk ring bearer, if you look close you can see it behind the glass.

 

 

 

Products used:

Cricut's Animal Kingdom (skunk border)
Cricut's Gypsy Font
Craftwell - Cabbage Rose embossing folder
Imaginisce Jewels
The Paper Studio stick pins
Flower and papers from my stash

 

 Up next is the Marvelous Miranda.

Here's our line up in case you get lost:

Connie- https://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Christi- https://tranquility1905.blogspot.com/
Shannon H- http://shannonhdesigns.blogspot.com/
Angela- mermaidsnmonograms.blogspot.com
Alicia- http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/
Holli- sunflowerholli.blogspot.com
Kim- http://katydidcards.com
Michelle-http://michellekinder.blogspot.com/
Marji- http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com/
Sue- http://suek86401.blogspot.com/
Miranda- http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/
Ashley-  http://marinewifesscrappinlife.blogspot.com
Veronica- http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com
Sarah-  http://sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com/
Rebecca- http://rebeccaanndesigns.com/
Shannon M- https://my-o-scrappin.blogspot.com/
 

 

I won and more!!!

A couple weeks ago I participated in a challenge over at Golden Goddess Designs and I won. My prize arrived yesterday and I was so surprised at the wonderful extras Alicia had added to the package, she even sent me some earrings that she made, I am planning of wearing them for my wedding.

Here is my prize package:

 

I hope that you can see the beautiful earrings in front of the spool of twine, they are suns and have beautiful amber stones. Alicia made sure to send a pair that I won't have any allergic reaction to, thank you again Alicia. The wedding stickers and foam stickers in are also extras and Alicia included a very nice card thanking me for my participation in her challenge.

 

I have been also been busy with making myself a new top in my fav color for the wedding:

 

 

Nothing fancy, just a new top in my fav color that is cool enough to wear in the Arizona heat, it is 97 right now, too hot to be going outside. I haven't done much sewing for the past several eons, it was kind of nice to be sitting at my machines again. You notice that I said, "kind of" I used to LOVE sewing and would spend hours sitting at my machine, now it's ok but no longer a passion. I really SHOULD sew up some of the fabric I have, I do need some new clothes.

 

I also designed and made some wedding announcements that I can mail to family and friends after we tie the knot, all I have left to do on them is print the insides and add the ribbon.

 

Next on my agenda is to see if I can make a decent paper bouquet to carry down the aisle or at least hold onto, I don't know if there will be an actual aisle or what yet.