Tattered Lace - With LOVE...

Hi Everyone :) 

This is the first project that I've made for the fabulous Tattered Lace inspiration blog...and I am honoured to be part of it.  

As we are heading towards Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share this lovely heart wreath with you today.

The heart wreath is approx 20cm x 20cm. I picked this one up from a garden centre, and as it was a natural woody colour, I painted a layer of white Gesso over it. 

I cut the LOVE die in both white card and pale lavender mirri card...and a few of the Floral Flourish & Lacy Rose in green and pale pink mirri card. 

To the white LOVE die cut I randomly brushed on Seedless Preserve Distress ink, then added a few hand-painted flowers. Whilst these dried, I added some of the same distress ink to the white heart wreath. 

I then adhered the white LOVE word over the mirri one in a shadow effect, and hot glued it to the wreath, adding the Floral Flourish & Lacy Rose's.  To finish it off, I cut and added the word 'with' ...also from the LOVE set. 

These would be gorgeous in wedding theme colours to present to the bride on her wedding day too! 

Tattered Lace Tools

LOVE word die -

Floral Flourish & Lacy Rose - D677

Happy Crafting

Lydia x

Tattered Lace ~ August Challenge...

Helloooo!!! :)
August has arrived and summer is well and truly here!! Yayyy!! :)  I can't remember the last time we managed to string so many lovely summery days together! I look out of my craft room window and I'm seeing beautiful blue skies, and watching all the little sparrows in the hedge and on the feeders...I'm not exaggerating when I say there are more than 20 at a time out there sometimes!
Anyway...here is my DT project for this months challenge at Tattered Lace...our theme is 'Decadence' ...

A tough challenge this one as it entailed me having to go into the very yummy cake shop in the next village!! I had will power...however I also had three other passengers in my car!!! O.o

I used a 6 x 6 card base...

Matted a pearlised pink layer, then a TL Rose Garden embossed pearlised Cream layer... 

Cut 4 Chantilly Hearts - shaped and glued 

Cut 1 plain and 2 lacy roses per flower (5 needed altogether)
Cut out Chantilly Rose to go around the wedding cake pillar

Cut 2 of the largest rosette pieces and made 1 rosette

Finished off with a beautiful cupcake from Debbie @ Delicious Cakes...

On your Wedding Day.....

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Where has the first week of the Easter Holidays gone?? ...the last day of term seems like yesterday!!  Having said that, my poor Daisy has spent all of that week poorly.....not good having to use your school hols to be ill!!! Hopefully next week she'll be better :)

 Today I'm sharing with you a wedding card and matching candle. I was asked to make these for one of the members of staff at the school where the girls used to go...and I spent soooooo much of my time too!!! :)  I decided it needed to be a bit special...and big enough for all the staff to sign!

Mission accomplished......

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 I made a gatefold card which had a 12" base and 6" folds. These had acetate 'windows' so that you could read the message and their details with the card closed....

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I then needed to make a box for it to fit in!! 

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...and this is the matching candle...

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The centre of the card which held it closed....
(and in the true colours ) 

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I wish Rachel & Sam all the best for today.....
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A Thank You gift...

Another Made with Love and Coffee make! This time a keepsake from the bride and groom to their matron of honour.
I just adore the Tattered Lace range of dies...perfect for the delicate and elegant look on this gift. Handcrafted (by me)  bead pins...rolled roses and a ruffled ribbon finish it off nicely x

I will share the matching table decorations soon.
Stay safe everyone x

50 Golden Years!

Me again!!! ...getting back to the old days again with more frequent posts!!! :)
  I was going to share my third Heartfelt Creations DT project with you today, but as it was Rob's parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, I thought I'd share a bit of gold with you instead :)
Always a huge milestone in my eyes...and a very special occasion. We went down to see them yesterday and were thoroughly spoilt as 'we' were treated out for dinner and then went back to find Marion had made the most ENORMOUS...squishy...and very yummy raspberry pavlova!! I should have been a bit quicker with my camera than we all were with forks and spoons...as very rapidly there wasn't much left to photograph!!! O.o
I made them a card with added carnations, which is what they had as buttonholes and bouquets...and a 3 tiered decorated cake in a display box...from Scary Mary! Just love her kits x
Somehow I'd forgotten to take a proper photo of it...just a 'rough' one :/  I'll have to get Rob to take one when he goes down next weekend.

Take care...hope you all have a great week xx

Just Inklined February Hop...

I'm not quite sure where January went to, but here we are in February, and it's time for another Just Inklined hop!

This month we have the theme of 'Valentine'...

I have used the gorgeous image Wedding Bouquet from Just Inklined and made a card just perfect for a Valentine wedding. The leaf is made with a Nellie Snellen punch and embosser...it's definitely my 'THE' punch to have at the moment. I bought mine from Dragonfly Designs.

The Just Inklined images are now available from La Pashe...and are a BARGAIN £1 each!!!!

If you arrived from the wonderful Jeni's blog then you're on the right track and need to hop on over to Meeshe's blog :) If you just happened to be wandering by, then you need to jump back to Cathy's blog, as you don't want to miss anything!!

I'm entering this into...

Allsorts - Love love love

Crafty Calendar - Love

Prairie Fairy Fridays - For a sweetheart