I know you have seen my work in terms of creating cards and invitations. One of my other passions is baking and just putting together a good party. I recently blogged about some invitations for a tropical wedding. Well, last month I was asked to make the invitations for the bridal shower, a party banner and some favors.
I made the invitations solely from my computer. Microsoft Word is the medium I use for my invitations, though I use Gimp for my graphics. The theme for this invitation was the same as the wedding - tropical. Because I knew the color scheme, I was able to work very quickly on creating the background for the invites. This is what it looked like (minus the smudges):
I used Gimp to create the background and purchased my stock images from www.123rf.com.
The party banner borrowed the same title from the invitation: "From Miss to Mrs." Using the bride's favorite colors, yellow and orange, I used my Silhouette machine to create the following banner:
I got the template for the banner template from www.birdscards.com and opened it in MTC, resized it, added the letters and cut it using my Silhouette. The card stock I used for the banner background was leftover paper from the bride's invitations I made a few months back. I cut out the letters and added pop-up glue dots to give dimension to the letters (see below).
Finally, the favors I made were Oreo cookies dipped in Almond Bark (milk and white chocolate). I followed this recipe in order to put them together. Here's the final product:
If you haven't done so yet, I recommend you visit or join Pinterest. I find a lot of creative ideas for baking, card making and anything else I find myself inclined to want to try.
This is all for today. Be on the lookout for another posting from me soon. I've been in a creative mode and have lots I want to share.
Ciao!
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