weddings....

All last week I worked on projects for the Wedding Fair where Gredelin was going to be exhibiting this past Sunday in Bankkyrkan on Drottninggatan here in Norrköping. I'd already decided to have a colour scheme of white, off-white, oyster and dark burghundy, and the style was going to be vintage. We started on Monday when Heidi (my daughter, who is a florist) and I sat and produced invitations and little gift boxes, the kind you use beside every place setting at the reception table. Heidi is so brilliant at design - so I made the boxes and she decorated them. They looked like little cakes so I displayed them on this cake stand.

Then I worked on two scrapbooking layouts, using photos from my parents' wedding in northern England, during the war, and from my big sister's wedding in southern England in 1965 when I was a bridesmaid (aged 8). I used our Sizzix Big Shot machine which cuts out leaves and flowers, and dies from Tim Holtz and Magnolia (who have beautiful old fashioned dies, laces, doilies, flowers, leaves and so on) - distressed the edges of everything with Distress inks in colours: Old Paper and Pumice Stone. The large and medium sized roses I made using the Tim Holtz die Tattered Florals and then painted them with Gesso and sprayed them with inks diluted with water in a spray Mini Mister. Haven't had so much fun for ages - took the whole of Friday to do them both but it was heaven! My youngest daughter Gabbie was a model for a hairdressing salon who were also exhibiting and she was made up as an Ice Princess with white make-up and amazing curls and chandelier hair decor and necklace/Jacqui