Wedding Card Post Boxes

A Wedding Post Box can be the ulimate finishing touch for your wedding centre piece.  A wedding post box provides a beautiful decoration which your guests can place their wedding cards and vouchers in for you to open later.  See below for a brief guide to what we currently offer, although as always, we will adjust any wedding postal box design to match our wedding stationery ranges.

Find the full range at www.cherished-moments-weddings.co.uk/products/post-boxes/

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Summer Wedding Madness…. IN WINTER !!

We’re going mad here at Cherished Moments with all this winter chill around.  The best way to beat that is to set up a scorching summer offer for those of you who are lucky enough to be looking for wedding stationery for the coming summer of 2011.

Quote “WD2510” when asking for a quote, and all orders over £200 will receive a whopping 25% off !  That’s £50 off an order of £200, and £150 off an order of £600 value !!

Don’t miss out, book up today for summer 2011 invitations with this fantastic offer, only at Cherished Moments Wedding Stationery.

 

Pyramage Card Tutorial

From our friends at Card Making Magic –

Decoupage is very pretty but can be fiddly, so why not go for the easy option instead.

This is much easier to achieve, especially if you’re scissor challenged…like me.

All the cutting out is boring for me so I choose the easy route whenever I can.

This technique is using ever smaller layers to build up your design.

You could choose a square or circle, perhaps you want to be a bit more adventurous and try octagon or diamond shapes.

To start my project, I printed my image from a CD, and there are many good ones on the market.

This lady is from “My Craft Studio” CD, and she has many lovely friends on the same CD.

This effect has been achieved with Spellbinders dies.

I have printed out my chosen image seven times to give identical sized pieces.

(You can print out as many layers as you want to work with…you may choose to work with just 3or4 instead…the choice is yours)

Keep one full image as your base layer.

I have used the Mega Labels die, and there are six individual dies in the set.

Each one of the dies has been used to give me ever smaller sections.

Please don’t throw away what you have left, because with this we can make an Invertage Card

Once you have all the pieces cut out, then ink the edges with a pad that matches your color scheme.

This just helps to define the edges of each layer.

Then with silicone, foam pads or Pinflair Glue Gel layer the panels together, onto your base image.

This will add the height to your card.

Match up the image on each layer carefully.

Finish the card with any embellishments you have in your “stash” and make the card as pretty or sophisticated as you wish.

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How to Make Sketches / Templates !

From our friends over at Card Making Magic :-

Layouts that can be used over and over again can make all the difference, and save you hours of head scratching wondereing what to do next.

And for more help with producing your own sketches click the link to read about the benefits of recieving the
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“Card Making Sketches”

Whenever you are stuck for ideas then help will always be close at hand, and duplicating a successful design can save you a lot of time.

Even more so if it was a card you particularly liked.

Keep a pad and pencil close to hand and make a simple line drawing of whatever pops into your minds eye.

The sketch doesn’t have to be fancy, just something that helps you put your ideas together.

You don’t need to a good drawer or artistic to produce these, just a scribble will bring things back to mind when you are ready to get started on a card.

Label your designs with a name you will remember and store them for future use.

I keep mine in a clear plastic pockets, and store them in a ring binder. I just open it and look through them for ideas.

You will have the ideas there, ready to produce cards for any occassion.

Just vary the colours and you will have a different look each time. Turn the design around for another take.

This is the same design done on white, pink and cream card. The flowers on the paper have been glittered up to add sparkle. The sentiment is a peel off. (An excellent standby if your writing is not neat!)

Here is another sketch. This can also be turned around.

Place the flowers at the bottom or top corners for a change ,and the “ingredients” are to your choice.

Use stars or hearts instead of flowers, the choice is yours. Have fun with it and see what you can come up with.

This is my interpretation of it.

I have used glitters and several different kinds of flowers.

There are some gemstones under the sentiment and the shoes are coloured in with pens.

But you could use any image or colour scheme to suit the recipient.

This image, sentiment and papers are kits available to purchase from Making-Handmade-cards

I will bring you more card making sketches as each of my pages developes, so please check back often to keep up to date.

They will be free ideas to bring inspiration to your card making.

Look at the samples I will show of the finished card using the design, and if you like it have a go. See how you interpret it.

Don’t be afraid to try scrapbook layouts too. All you have to do is downsize it for whatever size card you are making.

Different embellishments and the use of colours can make the same design look totally unique.

Add some pretty gemstones, and lovely, shiny glitters. Try adding beautiful flowers made from silk or paper, and why not try making your own Flowers.

Crochet flowers also look fabulous.

Over time you may build up a sizeable collection of card making sketches and then you will never be stuck for ideas.

And don’t forget to get your free copy of the “Card Making Sketches” booklet. The link is at the top of the page.

Magic!

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New Wedding Stationery Range – Couture

A very abstract wedding stationery range featuring an Art-Nouveau style print and black satin ribbon, this range has a very formal and classy style that will turn the eloquence of any Wedding Day up a notch.

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