Lesli's wedding

Hi everyone,

This layout is of my niece who married in 2015. Her flower theme was succulents - so unusual  yet so absolutely beautiful. When I saw these Ivytree Studio papers I immediately knew I had to use them to create a layout of her wedding! (click on the image for a larger view).

One of my favourite crafts is creating 3D decoupage pictures (or paper-piecing), and I have done this for many years already. The fact that this particular paper has this gorgeous border of succulents, made it so easy to paper-piece 3 layers of the same border. Photographing this however never portrays the real life beauty and depth. Here is one close-up showing the 3 layers.

This little Enmarc chipboard was sprayed  with 2 different colour Glimmer Mists.

A very fine netting/organza was added to the left page, to represent the organza in the wedding dress.


Here you can see how I tore the Ivytree Studio paper (172/3) to create a wavy effect, the edging of the apricot cardstock with a gold pen, and the addition of some flat-backed ivory pearls.

Ivytree Studio Elements used

Code	Name	Collection
171/2	Flora Flair Red / Flora Flair Charcoal	Seize The Day
171/15	Flora Accents / Pencil Gray Speckles	Seize The Day
172/3	Endearment / Love Script	LOVE
172/4	Lacy Delights / Rosy Wood Candy Stripes	LOVE

Additional materials used
flat-backed pearls
double-sided tape
ribbon and bow
clear glitter glues
gold pen
doily
foam pads
Enmarc chipboard
mirror tape
KCraft glimmer mists (Misty Rose and Mandarin Blue)
Perfect Pears mist (Sunflower Sparkles)

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Wedding Guest book

Something a little different from card making again. My sister-in-law is getting married and asked me to make her a wedding guestbook - so always open to a challenge, I dove in. Here are the results.
Closed book with patterned acetate cover.

Closed book showing front cover.

1st page (inside of cover)

2nd page with 9 individual tags that can be swung out and written on. The angel with trumpet was cut on a Cricut by my sister.

3rd page. I cut flower shapes out of clear vellum with my new SLICE machine, then edged them with gold chalk. The silver swirls were cut out of the base of an aluminium dish!

4th page. 6 small flap-over notelets edged with MS punch.

5th page. I didn't have the heart to cover this gorgeous paper with the wedding dress, so added a small pink SLICE cut tab to the right.

6th page. SLICE cut gold frame over green vellum, with additional wedding stickers.

7th page. 6 little pockets with pullout tags, copper ribbons.

Last page with 1 large sheet for writing on.

Then, as I could not find a box to match, I made one!