Wedding number one this year

...is coming up this weekend, so I had to get my skates on to get the album done that I wanted to make! It's for the guests to write something in on the day and for pictures of the guests. Each double page will have a picture of the wedding guests on the left side and they can write on the right side. The pics will be taken of each couple/single person holding an empty picture frame and sticking their heads through.

I decorated mainly the cover and the back-cover for it.

I stamped some white paper with flourishes and glued tissue paper over to give a silk effect. For the front I also embossed some red card (PTI) with swiss dots and glued in a strip to the bottom half. I coloured the wedding couple from Mos digital pencil with Copic Markers and Glitter pen and cut with Nestie curved rectangles, leaving a bit of the dress peaking out to the side. Mounted on a handcut larger curved rectangle and adhered with foam pads. Similar procedure on the text bit - just names of the couple and wedding date.

Then I made a rose out of white paper that I coloured with distress ink in fired brick. It's done with a flower punch and lots of glue. Leaves are handcut and shaped. I made a trail out of wite half-pearls and a little pin with pearls and beads and findings.

The swirly heart on the back-cover is cut on my cricut from a file I found on Paulos blog, thanks Paulo!

Here's what the inside looks like:

All bound with the BiA and 11/4 inch wires. Just in time as we are leaving for the wedding on Thursday! Hope they'll like it, I am reasonably happy with it *lol*

Let me know what you think! Thanks for stopping by today!

Had a fabulous crafting day yesterday!

I met with 3 amazing girls, Julie, Sarah(Kozmik) and Kathleen yesterday at the Glitterpot. We had the chance to see a great demo for the Bind-it-all and pick up a few goodies then headed over to my place for some lunch and serious crafting. Ok, we did chat quite a bit as well, but amazingly we did craft as well. I really enjoyed myself and if it wasn't for the long distances (poor Kathleen had nearly 3 hours train journey each way!) I would like to do this at least once a month!

I had prepared a little something for each of them but forgot to take pictures *doh!* Kathleen did bring some great instructions for a storage system and choccies, Julie made each of us a lovely paper book that I will have to take a picture of later and upload for you all to admire as well and Sarah had a box of gorgeous yummy belgian choccies for each of us. Throw in some cake and cups of tea and coffee and you can imagine that we had a fantastic day.

We stamped quite a bit and exchanged tips and I gave a little introduction to working with copic pens and then we made little books with the BiA and I have to admit that this was great fun and the results were so good in relation to how little work it was really... Thanks to Michelle Saxon who did the demo at the Glitterpot we were all inspired and she had made it look so easy (which it was, really...).

Here is my effort, which I also will be entering in this weeks Magnolia challenge over at DoCrafts. The theme is Winter Wonderland and we were supposed to use two colours only (shades of grey and purple in my case, I cheekily forget about the brown for hair and sledge). 

Tilda and sledge are coloured in Distress Ink, Papers are from Papermania, The snowflke embellishment I got from a lovely DoCrafter and I added a tiny purple gem in the centre. I cannot remember where the ribbon is from... 

 Let me know what you think!