The year of the weddings continued....

This weekend we attended the wedding of one of the hubby's oldest friends. Unfortunately, I had NO TIME to make a new wedding card - so I used an old standby that Stampin Mom had on hand!

DIY Wedding List

So the wedding is over and normal life can resume! I am so excited to finally have time for stuff in my life that is NOT wedding related. That being said.... here is the list of Crafts that I D-I-Y'd or semi-DIY'd for the wedding! I hope to do a series of posts over the next few weeks/months going through all of them! Some might have to wait for professional photos or more people to send me in digital pix that they took!


Invitations Etc.
Save-the-Dates
Invitations

Ceremony
Programs
Petal Cones
“reserved” signs
Ringer Bearer Pillow (Semi-DIY)
Flower Girl Basket (Semi-DIY)

Reception
Grandparents photo frames
Seating cards (escort cards)
Table #’s
Disposable Camera Labels/flickr cards
Favor Boxes
Guestbook Pages


Rehearsal Dinner:
Stamped napkins (live, laugh, love)
Centerpieces
Slideshow
Invitations

Other
Out-Of-Town Bags (for Hotel)
Bachelorette Buttons
Bachelorette T-Shirts
Bookmarks
Gift Tags
Rachel & Jeremy “Just Married” signs
Ring Bearer/Flower Girl T-shirts


Projects I wanted to do, but just ran out of time:
Full Guest book
Bridesmaid Jewelry (have lots of supplies if anyone is interested!)



Oh yeah... and IF anyone was actually following me - I passed the accredation exam at work (many people failed!!) and I got accepted to grad school (Not sure if I'm actually going to go!)

Life has gotten in the way...

Once again, i have let months pass me by without sharing my crafting goodies with you all!

First it was the Holidays:

Then in January I took a break from crafting to cross some life goals off of my list:

Since then I have let wedding madness get the best of me!
The upside is that I have tons of wedding related crafting to share with the world!
I will be back soon to share all of my projects that I have created in the past few months!

Self Control

So... apparently I have no self control. Remember those awesome crafty tools I was LUSTING over in my last post?? (ok ok, I know my last post was a WHILE ago.. but I digress) Well... since then, I bought myself a CUTTLEBUG!! woo hoo!! It is awesome. Not too big either, perfect size for my manhattan apartment. Now I'm just obsessed with collecting all of the Nestabilities - seriously they are the most useful die-cuts. I will do a post on them soon!

Oh but that's not all... StampinMOM bought the Cricut. Oh yes she did! It was a huge investment - but so far, SO COOL!! I will take pictures at Thanksgiving, but she made little favor boxes for everyone at the table. So far, I have only used it for my escort cards as part of my "wedding crafts" I will be sure to post pics once they're done!

Now that the Save-The-Dates are out the door... I will be posting pics soon!

And all that jazz...

so the boy and I recently attended an Out-of-Town wedding in the midwest. The couple currently lives in California which posed a problem when deciding what to gift the couple! We wouldn't bring a present with us since we didn't want them to have to lug it all the way across the country, and we sure didn't want to lug it from NY either!! Enter Bed Bath & Beyond... The customer service there is amazing! We were able to buy a gift and have it shipped to the couple in Cali. They even give you this cute card to bring with you so that you don't attend the wedding emptyhanding... naturally though, it wasn't cute enough for me!!


Card before


After (envelope)


Outside

Inside


Naturally they got one of my hand-made wedding cards too ;-) A wedding is nothing if not an opportunity for card-giving!!!

Isn't it amazing what 10 minutes and some paper can do to a boring gift receipt!! I like the after version much better!! What do you think?

Save The Dates!

Well... its time for my first wedding related post!! After a full summer of work, the SAVE THE DATES are almost done!! I can't show them to you yet since they haven't been mailed... but I can tease you a little!

It started over July 4th weekend with:
4 Aunts
2 Cousins/Bridesmaids
1 Mother
1 Grandmother
and many paper cutters





We continued in the beginning of August, this time we only had a skeleton crew of
1 Aunt
1 Cousin/Bridesmaid
1 Mother
1 Fiance

A GOCCO


a XYRON


And the use of many, many surfaces....


Stay tuned for the final product!!

Spring is in the Air!

Well... I haven't posted in a couple of weeks... but I believe I have a good excuse.... I'm ENGAGED!! woo hoo!! The boy popped the question on 3/29/08 (six years to the day of the night we met) and I said yes... get ready for the deluge of wedding crafting coming your way!

I guess spring was in the air because I had 4 other friends all get engaged last month. I had seen this super cute set of retired stamps by StampinUp called Lifecycles last year and I knew it would make a great engagement card. Once everyone started getting engaged I decided to buy it from ebay and make some engagement cards for my friends!

Its been a long time, baby!

Well... I haven't been very diligent about my posting here...(its been about a year *cough*) Anyhow, now that I'm done with Grad school, I am back into some major crafting and I can't wait to share it all!

I'll start today with an old Save the Date card I helped make for my friend Kristy's wedding. Just to prove how old this save the date is, Kristy now has a beautiful almost 6 month old baby!

The scan of this card doesn't do it justice, but I guess that's what happens when you think something is so cute you leave it on your fridge for 2+ years!