More Wedding Greetings...

 Hello my bloggy friends! This past weekend, on Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending another wedding! This time it was in LA. This wedding was ironic because the groom, who is one of my younger brother's best friends, was at my wedding last year, and happend to catch my husband's boutonnière in the "single men" boutonnière toss! Basically, he's getting married because of us! jk! ;-) Really though, he has been with his fiancee for approximately 7 years, they were high-school sweethearts. We're so happy for them and were excited to celebrate their beautiful wedding with them.

We gave them a monetary gift and needed a nice way to present it to them so I went ahead and made card. Since my parents were also invited, I created one for their gift as well. I based the design and colors from the color-scheme of the invitation, which was primarily pink with touches of plum on a white background. Check out the pics of my designs...

Clover Heart Bling-

Materials Used: 

* White linen-textured card-stock

* Pink and Burgundy colored matte card-stock

* Silver linen-textured card-stock

* Silver glitter card-stock

* Silver glitter glue

* White vellum

The card I designed and created for our gift to the couple.

Blingy Butterfly-

Materials Used:

* White matte card-stock

* Blush Pink card-stock

* Silver linen-textured card-stock

* White vellum

* Silver glitter-tape

* Silver glitter-glue

* Stamped greeting with silver ink

* Blush Pink jewel

The card I designed and created for my parent's gift to the couple.

The groom is Greek and the wedding took place at the beautiful St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, located in Northridge, CA. The reception was held at the adjacent banquet hall. It was a beautiful fairytale wedding. Here are some pictures of the lovely event.

Wedding Greetings...

This is the first week that I've been back from vacation. It was a great trip, full of busy but fun days for sure. The main reason I went on this trip was for my dear cousin's wedding. He is one year younger than me and we have been like brother and sister for many years. We grew up together, although we were a country apart. He lives in New Jersey and I live in California. Somehow, whenever we would go there, or they would visit, we would always pick up where we left off. Sometimes getting along and acting goofy, or sometimes getting into little arguments, as most kids do after they've been hanging around each other for a "bit too long" in the day. One of my fondest memories was trying to see who was the first one to wake up to watch Saturday-Morning-Cartoons in our PJ's with a big bowl of Lucky Charms! Our favorite show to watch was Muppet-Babies, remember that? Awesome show! Anyhow, I digress down memory lane. :) The reason why I wanted to share this with you is because I made a card for him, of course!! Not only did I make one for our gift, but one for my parents to give as well. Check out the pics and let me know what you think. It truly was a special occasion and I enjoyed spending time to make these cards. I wanted them to be just perfect. I went ahead and posted a few pictures of the cards as well as the lovely wedding! As always, I value your feedback. Enjoy!

The card I designed for my parents to give as a gift...

Paper used is a pearlescent champaign color base card-stock with a vellum sash embellished with gold glitter vines. Inside the card is lined with vellum, left blank for a special message. The  gold flourish seal is a gold linen textured card-stock adorned with a handmade vellum flower. It is topped with an amber gem. The card was designed to securely accomodate a gift-check.

The Card I designed for our gift...

Paper used is a pearlescent champaign color base card-stock with a handmade red sash embellished with gold dabs.  I used the same red paper to make the envelope seal flourish. The sash is also embellished with gold glitter tape.  Inside the card is lined with vellum, where I printed a special message for the happy couple. I also punched out 2 hearts on the lower right of the vellum sheet. The square seal is backed with dark red card-stock, gold linen textured card-stock, the pearlescent card-stock and adorned with the handmade red and gold-dab paper. The card was designed to securely accomodate a gift-check. The envelope is a metallic dark gold finishing touch.

A few wedding pictures...

Cute intro before the Bride made her entrance!

The Newlyweds!

Simple yet elegant design, with a little bling!

Rapunzel Themed 3rd Birthday...

A dear friend's daughter has a birthday coming up. She will be turning 3 and she loves Disney's movie "Tangled". Her mom decided to throw her a party with that theme. She asked me to create the banner with her daughter's name on it. There will also be a full-size piñata in the figure of Rapunzel, which I helped pick out. Check out what I did...

I used premium 12 x 12 card-stock for the purple and yellow parts of the banner. The triangles were cut out by hand. The letters were cut out of black glitter foam sheets. Basically, I chose a font I liked, increased the size to fit 2 letters per sheet, and hit print. These became my font template. All items were cut by hand. I even meticulously cut out the sunburst design using scissors from a template I printed out online. I connected the banner together using gold-tone brads. I created a cute relevant design in the circle portion of the banner showing Rapunzel and added the number "3" to indicate the birthday girl's age. After I printed it out, I added glitter to the 3 to make it sparkle.

The piñata was a cute idea my friend came up with. I helped her find this one after seeing many options. We liked this one the best since her hair was to the side and her eyes were green. My friend added the flowers to the hair after following a tutorial I showed her for creating tissue-paper flowers. She shared this photo with me when she was done. The piñata stick came with it and it is decoratively wrapped in alternating yellow and purple ribbon. The candy bags are small square purple translucent bags which were plain. I went ahead and created matching labels to stick to them.

After this project, I have decided to add party decor to my list of projects, in addition to my handmade cards. If you're interested in a design, please drop me a line.

As always, I value your feedback.

Dad's Birthday...

My dad's birthday isn't until August 9th but I gave him this card this past weekend. I couldn't resist. I thought I'd seize the opportunity since a family day was already planned at my place. It was a small celebration with cupcakes and a small but meaningful gift from me. Of course, I do plan to see him on his actual birthday. Who doesn't love celebrating birthdays more than once a year?

Lovely cupcakes from a local bakery: Kokolita Cakes

My dad enjoying the lovely sign I picked out for him. It's going in the garage. I know him so well! :)

Girl's 5th Birthday...

I was invited to attend yet another birthday celebration recently. It was for one of my dearest friend's daughter's who was turning 5. It wasn't an official "party" since since she specified to her mom that she just wanted to play with her close friends that day. The ages ranged from 2 years old to about 5. It was a day of fun for the little tykes. The wonderful California weather was the perfect setting for all their water playing! There were several wading pools, a slip-n-slide, a water-balloon filler-upper, and a crazy water sprayer that was attached to the garden hose. I don't have any kids yet but I am close friends with all the moms who came. We were friends since before kids were in the picture! It was a great summer day.

Even though it wasn't a true party per say, I still brought a gift of-course! And with gifts come cards! I designed a cute card for the cute little girl using some of my decorative papers and coordinated it with the wrapping paper design. Actually, some of the paper used in the card was the actual wrapping paper!  The gift I got her was a cute mani-pedi set because she is a girly-girl :) It was from the kid's section of-course but it had all the necessary items you would need, like stickers, polish and even flip flops!

Check out the pics...