Beautiful wedding!!!! and "Just Married" sign!!!!

This was one of my last projects for the wedding that I was helping out with. I had a lot of fun doing it.

The wedding was June 27, 2009 and it was such a beautiful, personal and intimate wedding. No one had a dry eye in the room. It was just beautiful. You could just see God's presence in the wedding and the love that the groom and bride have for each other. I cried and laughed through the wedding ceremony and through the reception.

This is me and my husband at the reception with the bride and groom.



Bride and Groom right after the ceremony when people got to walk up to them and congratulate.



I just love these photos of them walking outside after the wedding ceremony.





And here is the sign that I did for their car. We (the Bride helped) used a foam board to attach all of these fun things too and then the groom attached it to the car.



Used: Plantin SchoolBook, Lyrical Letters, Eccent Essentials cartridges.
Chocolate chalk.
Stickles.
Flowers.
Jewels for the middle of the flowers.

Close up of the corners.





And here it is on the car.



Thanks for looking!!! :)

Cards, paper, cardholder box/purse......

This post is going to have a lot of pictures in it. So hopefully you'll stick around till the end and maybe get inspired in one way or another in your creative area. :)

I've been doing a lot of different projects this year. For the last 4 month I would say I have things going on, things that need to get done. And I love it. I love using my cricut. It's the best things I ever got. My husband is so awesome... :)

As I've mentioned in another post that I've been privileged to help out in a wedding. The last thing that I did for the bride were the name tags that I posted about a couple posts ago.

Today I wanted to show you what I did with the negative flower/swirl looking die cut from the name tags. You can fit 47 cuts (I believe) on the 12x12 sheet. The flower came from the Lyrical Letters cartridge. (I love this cartridge by the way.) After cutting out all those flowers out I looked at the left over 12x12 sheet of paper that had all of those flowers cut out from and I just couldn't throw it away. I thought there must be something that I could do with it. So here is what I did. I know this has been done before with so many other things. But still, I thought this was kind of cool and it just might give some one an idea that they haven't thought about yet.

I took that negative sheet put it on white card stock. Then took a sponge of any kind (anything will work really) dipped in to ink and then tabbed on the white that was showing through. You'll need to let the ink dry before using a different colors or you can just go and stamp right over while it's still wet and you'll get an image with multiple colors in it. Both look cool.








Here I used this cloth thing that gave me a streak like image on top of my flowers.


This is what my negative paper looks like now after using all kinds of colors on it. You can do so many things with just this one sheet. It really last you for a long time.


Take the negative paper that was used as your stencil carefully off of the white card stock and here is what you get. Beautiful print.







You can see the streaks here.


Here is what you get if you stamp right over the wet ink. Colors mix and kind of gives you a cool look.


I did 10 cards using the stenciled paper.







I added some stickles here on the stenciled flowers.














I also did a cardholder box/purse that holds up too 20 cards in it. Very easy to do. A friend of mine who is an SU demonstrator showed me this box. I used some CTMH stamps on top of the stenciled images just to add little extra. I also did a card that was left from that sheet of paper.





Don't know if you can see. But I did some dry embossing on this card. Trying new things.



Here is the whole bundle. I would like to give it to some one as a gift, just don't know who yet... :)





Thanks for looking and hope you liked my latest project!!! :)
Nadya

Cupcake anyone?????

This is by far my FAVORITE project that I have done so far!!!! This is so MUCH FUN AND SO EASY TO MAKE!!!! And yes I am shouting!!!!! :)

Yesterday I had yet another bridal shower to go to. We have I think 4 weddings this summer. Anyways, the bride and groom will be moving back to the main land as they both got jobs there. They both graduated from Bible College this summer and were hired there. So excited for them.

So we had to bring gift cards to the shower as shipping stuff will be too crazy and gift cards are so much easier to shop for and transport... hee hee :)
There was also to be a winner of the best decorated, original and crazy gift card. So I had to brain storm what to do.

I saw this video and I just fell in LOVE with the idea and the cupcake it self. This lady is AMAZING! Her videos are so easy to follow and so much fun and laughter! I love it.

I used all kinds of stuff. If you have any questions please do ask. I'll try to answer as best as I can....

Well here is my take on this cupcake!!!! I just LOVE how it turned out. It was awesome and BIG! I'm definitely making more of these and I see so many more things that you can do with this idea.... oh boy!!!!







This is the back.



With the card pulled out a little.



little more....



and here it is out... Oh and I got the gift card with baby booties on them as a joke. As it was suppose to be something funny and not original... :)



And I did have to make a matching gift bag. There was just no way I was going to let that pass. My husband of course rolled his eyes at me when I showed him my matching bag... LOL :) But I still love him even if he rolls his eyes at me.





The BRIDE loved it! Well everyone LOVED it... :) actually my dh said that it looked good enough to eat... ha ha...

Here are couple of pictures of the bride to be and her cupcake gift card.





Oh and I did win. How cool is that... :) and this is what I won!!!! LOL :)





This was such an awesome project to do. Hope you liked it and will give it a try.... :)

Nadya

Craft Silent Auction Results and the crafts...

Our Craft Silent Auction and Bake Sale for our Church Building Fundraiser was last week Wed. - Fr. We were there before and after school with Bake Sale.

I was very very impressed with our Bake sale. First day we sold $57 worth of baked goods. At the end of our second day I counted it and we were at $377. That includes the $57 from the first day and about $100 from other little things non baked goods that is $220 that we made only from baked goods the second day. WOW! Our third day we were over $500. It was just AMAZING!

Our auction was awesome. We had ladies that made some really cool things. One lady did 8 hand made very nice, bright colored aprons, 3 full size and 5 half. Another friend altered a tin and made 30 different cards to go with it. Another one made bunch of jewelry, hair bows and put bunch of baskets together. We had teacher gift baskets, family movie night basket with 2 DVD's, popcorn, candy and chips and a $10 gift card to Block Buster. All together we had 37 different items.

My friend Ivy made an awesome tutu hair bow organizer. We had ladies going crazy over that. It was beautiful. Ivy also donated us some wooden letters that said "family" I altered them and people loved those as well.

We had only about 2 weeks to put it all together and it turned out really really awesome. But it was possible only with God's help. He knows all the late nights that I had and the frustrations that go along with getting something like that organized. He got me through those days, days with only 2 hours of sleep and people calling and canceling on baked goods and so on and on. But He provided everything that was needed. I learned so much during those two weeks. Even though I was so tired by the end it was all so worth it and it was good for my soul!!!!!

So all together we made about $1,400 (around) so far, still some things pending... We did end up having couple of things left. One of the parents from school donated us bunch of Mary Kay stuff and we have couple of those things still left. But other then that everything is gone. We are very very very HAPPY with the number.... Did not expect that at all!!! But God did it...

I wish I could explain you all how exciting it was to see parents of the school get excited about the auction and bake sale. Parents started bringing us baked goods in the mornings and then after school. People shared how blessed they feel by this school and how happy they are with it and that it's been a blessing to have their child in that school. Our school is a Private Christian School. It was just amazing!!!! God has taught me so much in these past couple of weeks. He has showed me so much and touched my heart in so many ways. I can't even explain it all.

If you have any questions let me know I'll try to answer as best as I can.

I did take pictures but they didn't come out all that great. But that's what happens when you run around and try to take pictures on the 2 hours of sleep.

Here are some of the pictures.

This is our corner with the tables all set up the morning of our first day.



close up of the tables....

Here is the altered tin with 30 cards that was made by one of my friends.



Tutu hair bow organizer that Ivy did and donated to our auction.



We had two Aloha quilts donated to us. This is my oldest dd standing next to the baby Aloha quilt.



Family Movie night basket...



We had some two diaper cakes, this is one of them.

This one was a baby bath basket. The towels were made by one of my friend's sister. Her sister also did the Aloha quilts.



Teachers Basket. Full of fun stuff for a teacher. Altered clip board, teacher jewelery, wooden apple pencil holder, pencils, candle and more.



Another hair bow organizer that was also hand made.



The other big quilt.



Family Fun basket. Full of art projects for kids.

I'll start a new post with the items that I did.

Hopefully this will give some of you some kind of ideas if you'll be doing an auction or any other kind of craft type sale things.

Thanks for looking!!!
Nadya