Hello there!
You may think I've been quiet on the making front and in some ways, you may be right, but I have been doing wedding related crafty-stuff. Not loads, but some! However, I had the opportunity over the past couple of weeks to make 2 wedding cards.Now, I actually find wedding cards quite hard to make. It really does take some thinking in my case and usually takes a while.
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This first one was for a lovely blogging friend who recently got married. Hard, when you're not sure of what the colour scheme is etc but my most favourite bible reading is 1 Corinthians 13*, which is so poetic and beautiful and I wanted to share those words with some simple decoration.
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The next one is for my fellow bride at school, our finance officer (who is amazing! She's been my kind of 'human-checklist' for things I am supposed to be doing!). Her colour scheme is baby pink and pale blue. Originally, I wanted to incorporate both but as it happens, it didn't look right so I chose the pink (bridesmaid colours). I knew I wanted to quill flowers but wasn't sure what to do.
I browsed Google images looking for inspiration and came across an amazing, amazing quilling card maker called Jill Chapman whose cards are exquisite!!! I took inspiration from (ok, really tried to imitate!) this card she made here. I hope she doesn't mind me imitating it (badly) but I really recommend going to her if you want a special card- she personalises them and they are breathtakingly beautiful!
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Finally, I thought I'd show you this card I gave to my Brother-in-law for his birthday. This card was one of the first I ever made when I started making 'collaged' cards. I made it totally out of scrap packaging (apart from the star) and I have kept it in my collection for over 8 years! Finally, I realised I should part with it. No other mosaic-design has ever pleased me quite so much as this one. Maybe it's the slightly uneven, wonky feel to it, but I loved it! It inspired a whole church holiday club craft activity where I painstakingly cut over 2000 mosaic tiles out of scrap cardboard and supervised children making cards with them!
This one would be a fun one to do with your child this holiday! They could make a whole stash of cards!x
1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
You may think I've been quiet on the making front and in some ways, you may be right, but I have been doing wedding related crafty-stuff. Not loads, but some! However, I had the opportunity over the past couple of weeks to make 2 wedding cards.Now, I actually find wedding cards quite hard to make. It really does take some thinking in my case and usually takes a while.
This first one was for a lovely blogging friend who recently got married. Hard, when you're not sure of what the colour scheme is etc but my most favourite bible reading is 1 Corinthians 13*, which is so poetic and beautiful and I wanted to share those words with some simple decoration.
The next one is for my fellow bride at school, our finance officer (who is amazing! She's been my kind of 'human-checklist' for things I am supposed to be doing!). Her colour scheme is baby pink and pale blue. Originally, I wanted to incorporate both but as it happens, it didn't look right so I chose the pink (bridesmaid colours). I knew I wanted to quill flowers but wasn't sure what to do.
I browsed Google images looking for inspiration and came across an amazing, amazing quilling card maker called Jill Chapman whose cards are exquisite!!! I took inspiration from (ok, really tried to imitate!) this card she made here. I hope she doesn't mind me imitating it (badly) but I really recommend going to her if you want a special card- she personalises them and they are breathtakingly beautiful!
Finally, I thought I'd show you this card I gave to my Brother-in-law for his birthday. This card was one of the first I ever made when I started making 'collaged' cards. I made it totally out of scrap packaging (apart from the star) and I have kept it in my collection for over 8 years! Finally, I realised I should part with it. No other mosaic-design has ever pleased me quite so much as this one. Maybe it's the slightly uneven, wonky feel to it, but I loved it! It inspired a whole church holiday club craft activity where I painstakingly cut over 2000 mosaic tiles out of scrap cardboard and supervised children making cards with them!
This one would be a fun one to do with your child this holiday! They could make a whole stash of cards!x
1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.