10 Days Of Scrapbooking: Day 8

This another wedding page . . .  always a bridesmaid never a bride.  Ha!  (King and I are working on the wedding thing.)  Anyway, my other BFF had a really amazing destination wedding in Guthrie ,Oklahoma.  She used the peacock feather as her color pallet and had a lot of peacock feather accents.  The wedding was real southern vintage with a twist of a little contemporary with a little bluegrass music mixed in.  Mr. S is a great mandolin player and Mrs. S is a super fabulous singer.  They sang their first duet together at their wedding instead of having a first dance. How snazzy is that!  I grabbed all of the peacock feathers out of most of the table arrangements because I knew I would want some of them for this page (Don't worry, I waited until clean up time.).  Kinda looking for something really snazzy to do with the other 100 feathers.

Here's the actual pic of us below.  Isn't her birdcage veil FABULOUS! Oh how I love birdcage veils.  I also made headpieces for the bridesmaids that included black & peacock feathers. I also made the wraps.  Those two touches that Mrs. S wanted, really added some extra pizazz to the the bridesmaids.  Actually she had a ton of extra touches that really made the wedding super fabulous.  I could go on and on about her wedding. 

10 Days Of Scrapbooking: Day 7

I almost forgot to do this post!  My Mom was here over the weekend and it was tough trying to scrap and visit.  We also made me some super fabulous skirts for myself.  I am wanting to purchase a pair of knee high boots for winter, but I had to make sure that I could find the perfect skirt pattern to go with the boots.  We succeeded.

This page is from one of my BFF's wedding.  Immediately following the wedding, the bridal party went over to the bar to take a few shots (not just photo shots).  So us girls got on top of the bar top!

 

Wedding Program

(Be sure to come back tomorrow, I will have pics of our really fabulous cake!!)

I was really excited whenever I saw Mrs. D's wedding programs because they were so darn cute!! (back in April).  Of course, I was showing them off to one of my coworkers and she asked if I could put together something like that for her daughter's wedding.  Caution: We printed 200 of these,  it takes ALOT of paper!  We saved money by purchasing the $8 ream of  110LB paper at an office supply store and we needed two of them.  I think we used about 9 rolls of ribbon, but I didn't look to see how much was on each roll.  I was able to print these at our office, where we have the big mamma-jamma printer, that prints very well.

Wedding Necklaces: Does Jewlery Making Scare You?!

I was asked to make some necklaces for one of my coworkers daughter's wedding.  Of course, as always, I said Yes!  I tried my hand at making jewelry before, which I enjoyed it but it is definitely not my thing.  I am not that creative with beads; I will leave that up to Mrs. Dreibelbis because she can make some awesome-ly snazzy  necklaces!! Thank goodness we are able to trade beading for sewing, since she isn't much of a sewer.  My co worker was inspired by the necklace Mrs. D made for me, for her wedding.  Mine aren't as snazzy as the inspiration necklace but she needs five of them and I know they are on a budget so I didn't add as many shiny beads as I would've like.  However, I think they turned out really good.  The dresses are black and white with the girls carrying red roses.  So the theme is semi classic.

TUTORIAL:
Does making  jewelry scare you?! Well I was definitely intimated when I walked down the beading aisles at HL and Michaels.  There is soooooo much stuff! Very overwhelming!!  You only need SIX supplies !(for a basic necklace then you can branch out), ONE tool and less than TEN steps!  Nylon string, crimp beads, crimping tool, clasp of your choice and of course, the beads of your choice.
1) String your beads
2) Add your crimp bead
3) Add one side of your clasp to one end of the nylon string
4) Add the clasp and bring the nylon string back through the crimp bead
5) Follow directions on your crimping tool package for easy picture directions.  The crimp bead is what keeps the beads tight on the string without having a big 'ol knot, making it look more professional.  The bead actually flattens when you "crimp" it with the tool.
6) Add clasp and crimp bead to the other end of the nylon string, BAM! You are done!!!!

If you are feeling really snazzy with beads you can make a multi stranded necklace by adding multiple stranded beads to the same clasp. Each strand has its own crimp bead and all of the strands of beads are attached to the same clasp.  I like to add a few more beads to each additional strand thus having a little more variation within the strands.

 I didn't know where else to hang the beads .. .. ..  except on my kitchen knobs.