What I’ve been up to? Engagement announcements for my dear friends, Sooz & Yama.

The Engagement!

They just got engaged during a lovely weekend in Palm Springs, where Yama proposed to Sooz under the Pee Wee’s Big Adventure Dinosaur! How adorable is that?!

They wanted something fun and bright; reflective of themselves individually and as a couple. They wanted to include photos of them as children and they provided their own clever copy!

Papers all from Paper Source!
We used:

• #10 note cards in Poppy (orange)
• #10 envelopes in Chartreuse (green)
• 8.5 x 11 Cardstock in Luxe Cream which printed and then trimmed to size; we went with the luxe line to give a little more heft & texture to the announcements
• A roll of Supertape! to attach the cream cards to the orange
• My trusty rotary cutting board!

Here’s what we came up with:

Yama+Sooz= <3; super cute engagement announcements!

Holy Cuteness, Batman!

Yama+Sooz= <3; super cute engagement announcements!

What have you been workin’ on?

From my flickr stream

I don’t often delve into paper craft. Not anything with glue anyway. Or trimming really (I can’t cut straight to save my life). Cranes, yes. Cards printed with a Gocco, yes. Cutting up bits of paper & gluing it all together…not so much.

I am planning on making a bunch of paper flowers for our April wedding (I love how they look & how much they cost). I bought a kit from Papersource just for testing purposes; to understand how they structured theirs so I could decide how to modify it for production on a much larger scale. Turns out Papersource adorable paper flowers are a pain in the ass. But I bet it’s going to look dang pretty when they’re done.

The pattern is relatively clear though I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to use a full length of the wire per petal OR cut it in half. So I cut them in half, at least for this one flower.

Papersource suggests this stuff as a gluing agent. But I decided to go to JoAnn’s & grab some ModPodge. Truth be told, I’ve never used Mod Podge before. Ever. But I’ve always (ever since I can remember anyway) coveted it. For some reason, in my six-year-old head, it was the end-all-be-all of crafty gooeyness. I guess I will see if I was right when those petals finish drying. I’ll be following up this post with a finished product shot and more muddling madness soon.