A wedding at a Japanese Tea Garden...

I attended a friend's wedding today (see below). Here is my gift card holder, presented in an exploding box format.

And here are photos from the wedding... Congrats to the lovely bride and my dear friend, The Groom!!!!

A wedding card.... and more photos from Seattle!

I made this card for a friend who recently got married. The background is an embossed Hero Arts stamp with Worn Lipstick Distress Inkpad applied.  The little wedding bells are from Stampin' Up and I wrote over the Hero Arts Soft Lilac ink with a clear sparkle Sakura pen (from Michaels).  The sentiment "wedding wishes" is from Lawn Fawn.  The LOVE stamp is stamped with Cough Syrup by Jenni Bowlin.


Amuse-bouche:
Here are some fun photos from my Seattle trip with Mr. Schrute...  Notice the culinary theme... LOL
More photos to come....

View of Pike Place Market looking south

We thought the name of this restaurant on the north side of Pike Place was funny

This Starbucks is across from Pike Place. It doesn't look like my local Starbucks. 

Fish market at Pike Place.  

Fruit Market at Pike Place. My friend bought some and really enjoyed them.

I tried this peach. They were giving samples. It was beyond awesome.

I'm sure there are some of you in the blogging community that see fruit like this all the time. This was a beautiful sight to me!

Look at those veggies!

This is like a sea creature: Broccoli Romanesco!

This is me in front of the gum wall (at Pike Place)

Rest assured, I'm actually about 4 inches from the wall....

Here we are at Chateau St. Michelle winery

SHELDON COOPER!!! :)

I love raw oysters.  It was harder to find in Seattle than I thought it would be.  I got them across from Pike Place at a place called "Jack's"

The Ghost Adventure crew did a show on this pub. It's haunted.

A wedding gift box

Today we had a wedding shower for someone at work. I made my exploding gift box however THIS time, I made my own paper.  Here's my wedding gift box....
(for a video tutorial on the exploding box, click HERE)

I used a Hero Arts background stamp with VersaMark/clear embossing powder.  I then dabbed a combination of Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress STAINS and blended with a gloved finger.  The flowers came from the wedding section at Michaels.

 

Here's the lid.  I gathered some Recollections wired flowers into a bunch. I used a medium size DOT to glue it down.  Those things are super sticky!.  The sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo (I've used it before on prior wedding gift boxes).  I used Tumbled Glass distress stains on the edge of the tag.

 When you open the lid... here's what you see. The car and phrases were cut from the Sweethearts cartridge (Cricut).  The matte that I wrote on was from Spellbinders. 

TO make it look like the doves and hearts were floating, I used clear sheets that I bought at Michaels (in the painting/water color section).  I inked the edges of the doves and hearts (from Sweethearts cartridge).  I used the thick red clear tape but it wasn't strong enough so I had to bond the strips with Glossy Accents. BOY That stuff worked great!!!

I put red bling for the tail lights and red Stickles for the license plate.  I used the Zip 2way glue and then sprinkled Crystal glitter to bling the car up.  I applied Tea Dye Distress Ink (brushed it with an ink pad) to the silhouettes of the man and woman). 


Amuse-bouche:

Here is the lovely shower cake we got the employee.  Isn't it gorgeous?  It was purchased at VON's grocery store and it was really yummy!!! (in case you're looking for a nice cake for a party).

One of my employees made these gorgeous cupcakes for the wedding shower potluck. The inside had strawberries and a cool-whip type spread. Isn't it beautiful?

She got the recipe from Giada de Laurentiis however I can't find it on the internet. It might be in one of her cookbooks.

Another beautiful wedding....

I know this is very similar to my recent post but I don't have any cards to show you. I've been very busy with work and weddings.  Here's one that I just went to in Temecula, at a family winery.

It was a lovely wedding.  Love was in abundance.

This took place over a pond on the property-- it was such a beautiful setting.


Here is my wedding gift card box. I used the Cricut for the side panels to cut words from the Sweethearts cartridge. 

The butterflies were punched out of the invitation paper (that had vines and grapes on it).

This cake was made by my co-worker who made the cake for the bride & groom.  (She's a beautiful cake designer).

 

A wedding gift card package....

I went to a fabulous wedding last night in Huntington Beach. There were so many cool things at this wedding, starting with the bridesmaid who had her Pomeranians in a carriage to the awesome reception. 

Look at this:  I loved it! The little doggies were SOOOOO cute.

The bride and groom looked positively lovely and I was so happy to be able to meet their family and share in their special day.

The reception was so much fun. There was dancing, a free candy store filled with assorted purple candies that we could fill our acrylic canisters with to take home, a taco-bar, a photo booth (with hats and masks to use), and a fry-girl.  What's that, I asked?  It's a girl who fries little donuts with sugar and cinnamon (kinda like a popcorn stand).  HOLY COW.  Then, about 10:30pm, we all got little sparklers (that you have at the Fourth of July) and lined the walkway (on both sides)  and they walked down the walkway.  Apparently, that's a new thing that people do at weddings...  

Here is my wrapped gift... 

This is after it was wrapped. I used the big glass pendant that was on the wedding invitation.  The sentiment came from an Inkadinkadoo clear acrylic stamp set.

 ... inside was my gift box.

once you lifted the lid...