Wedding gifts

This past weekend my DH's cousin got married, and of course I waited until the last minute to do her gift so I couldn't find what I was looking for so this is what I came up with instead:

Her invitation, which was the inspiration for my card. (sorry this is side ways I tried fixing it twice but it keeps posting side ways)

My card:

Coasters - made from glass tiles:

Etched mirror:

Will you be my bridesmaid card

I made this card over a month ago but was waiting for it to be posted on the wedding with the cricut blog but that's not looking like its going to happen, so I'm going to go ahead and post it as I think it looks awesome.

This project is for all those brides out there. One of the new theme’s in wedding planning is to send a card to the girls asking them to be in your bridal party. Brides are including these cards in a small package of goodies, or with a note about how important that person is to them.

Here is the card that I came up with.

To get the girls to stand up on the inside I used these pop up cards that I found at a stamping expo. You can find these cards at www.denamidesign.com if you’re interested; they are the three column. I bought a few different types to use as templates to make my own. I used another one to make a template for all of you. I wrote the measurements on it for you to see. It’s a bit hard to see in the picture but the dotted lines are the ones one top of each of the little columns.

If you cut and score as you are supposed to the card should look like this

Once I had my card cut and scored I covered the outside with the black poka-dotted paper, cut to 5.5” X 8.5”, which is from Me&My Big Ideas in their Mambi pack. Then using the Story book cartridge, I cut the Brushed silver paper from SU. I set the cricut to 4.5”, and blackout, shift and then Marquee 4. For the White I used Glossy White from SU and did the same as above but used the fancy corner key instead of black out. I cut the letters at 0.75” cutting twice once on shadow using Basic Black from SU and once with no keys set with Very Vanilla from SU.

For the inside I used the measurements posted above to cut my paper to fit around the area that popped up. I then cut the girls from the Forever Young Cartridge. The “bride” is model 19, and the Bridesmaids are model 20. I cut all at 2.5”. The brides dress is cut using the Glossy White paper. To do the Bridesmaids, I cut 2 normally and then the other 2 with the flip key on. I then cut just their dresses out of Basic Black, then with the layer key I cut the dress again using Real Red.

I’ve had this card in my head for awhile before I made it, and I was really surprised at how easily this card went together. I hope you all enjoyed today’s project!

Wedding Layout - For WWTC

Hi Ladies. Well it’s been awhile since I’ve worked on my own wedding album so I thought what a better way to get back in the swing of things then to make a Layout to share on wedding with the cricut. I’ve seen a few wedding layouts with the title “forever starts now” and I’ve been wanting to use this title in my album, I thought it was perfect for the pictures of us leaving the church. So here it is:

Close ups of the pages individually:

The background paper is from K&Company and is from the Black and Ivory Fusion Stack. The little strips on the bottom of page one, are from Me&my Big Ideas Mambi color basics in red and in black and white.




Details:

I used the opposites Attract cart for the title. “Forever” was cut at 2.5” with all the features off. Sorry I’m not sure where this paper is from it was a scrap I had, I think its DCWV but not sure which stack.

I cut the top note using Accent Essentials, its Shift - Accent 48 I cut this at 6.5 inches. The paper is Stampin’ up’s Very Vanilla. I didn’t like the starkness of the paper, so I took a sponge and using Stampin’ up ink in real red I made a swirl motion on the paper, then I dabbed around the edges to make them darker.

“Starts now” was also cut with Opposites Attract at 2” on the Opposite feature. Again I used Stampin’ up’s Very Vanilla paper and thought it needed more so I used some Martha Stewart stamps that said “love me, kiss me, and XOXOX” to give the paper a pattern. I just randomly stamped these on the paper. To do the shadow I used Stampin’ up’s Basic Black.

Wedding Layout - For WWTC

This layout I did for Wedding With The Cricut. Make sure to check out http://weddingswiththecricut.blogspot.com/ for more info!

Close ups of the pages:

Close up of Journaling:

Finished another wedding layout!

I finished another layout last night and I think this maybe one of my favorites so far. I had a lot of pictures I wanted to get on here so I really had to play with size and try to figure out how to get them all one. In the end I had to leave a few off because they didn't really fit but I love the 23 that I have one there!

Here comes the Bride was cut from the sweethearts cartridge at 4" I believe???

The tag was also from the Sweethearts cartridge and that I cut at 6.25" But I trimmed off part of the end and used my corner round to make the edges match.

A close up of the tag. I'm really liking the printed journaling I may have to do this more often. To do this I first printed it on card stock and then I put it in the cricut and moved my blade to the middle of the journaling and set the center point and then cut at 6.25". Before I cut the final product I used a scrap piece of paper to make sure I had the blade lined up in the right spot and to make sure I was cutting it big enough.

Wedding Layout

Here's another wedding Layout. I started this one a while ago and had the pictures all glued down, and I knew what I wanted as a title however, it still took me several weeks to get the title cut and glued on. The title for this layout was perfect. A couple months before the weeding I changed my ring tone for my dear hubby to "We're goin to the chapel", so every time he called that song played. On our wedding day I was strict with Mike that I didn't want to see him before the wedding, so he must have called me a 100 X's that day. Every time the phone rang, my girls and I sang along with "we're goin to the chapel, and we're gonna get ma-a-arried!

Here are a couple close ups:

Here are close ups of the journaling:

More wedding LO's

I completed the LO's of my girls and Flower girl getting ready and now here's my getting ready lo. Hope you like it.A few close ups

The journal

Here's my lovely DH and his groomsmen and the fathers.I left it pretty simple since its a "man's" lo but I really like how it came out. Aren't they all handsome?

Close ups:


I did both the tux and shoes with the sweetheart cart.

Wedding With The Cricut

Make sure you check out Wedding with the cricut today to see the 1st project I did for the design team. Today's project is a congrats gift.

http://weddingswiththecricut.blogspot.com/

Another wedding lo

Here is another LO I did from my wedding pictures

Sorry the 1st photo isn't the best. Some of the pictures my photographer gave me and they have a odd finish to them that my camera does not like.

A close up of the 2 pgs.

Hair & Makeup

I stayed up late last night working on this lo, and then finished it this morning. I got my inspiration from this weeks LID sketch. The font is from Story book and the loopy things I did with the ms punch. The flowers are called Dahlia flowers, I found this great blog with all kinds of flower tutorials. http://www.scrap-a-little.com/2009/07/dahlia-flower-tutorial.html

A few close ups:

How cute are these flowers!

Flower girl LO

This lo is of our cute little flower girl hamming it up before the wedding. She's the daughter of one of our grooms men.


page one:

Page 2:

Title page for wedding album

I'm loving this lo. Paper is from the Latte stack, la Creme Stack and the Holiday collection stack. I used Accent essentials for the top note and storybook for the font.

Another Lo for my wedding album.

These pictures are also from our rehearsal dinner. We had our dinner at a place names circus cafe and after dinner they brought us out these 2 huge things of cotton candy. Well one of our guests (the oldest of the group) decided cotton candy would make a great mustache...then everyone else had to join in the fun. Sorry for the glare on the photo's I need to get better lighting in my scrap corner.

My 1st LO for my wedding album.

I've been married for a yr, and until the other night had not started my album yet. My goal for this yr is to get my wedding album done and also start an everyday album

So here is my 1st lO.