Adding Vinyl to Towels

I was sceptical whether or not this would work but using stretch HTV (heat transfer vinyl) it worked beautifully.

Picture the scene, the bride and groom coming home to spend the rest of their lives together and on the towel rack a little reminder of being newly weds.

One each although I'm guessing the brides will end up make up and mascara stained befor she moves on to using the groom towel.

I think they are rather sweet and although they may get many towels from guests personalising them is made easy with G.M.Crafts

Products Used

G.M.Crafts Rosegold Stretch Metallic Vinyl

1 pair of white hand towels.

Wedding Arrow Sign DIY

It's that season again and a wedding can be so expensive, trying to make a few of your own decorations with vinyl (mine is rose gold self adhesive from GM Crafts) for the venue can help immensely.

I'm pretty lucky that I have my own handyman that I can draw what I want and he will cut it out for me, however, a straight piece of wood and and an arrow cut with the wording would do just as good.

with vinyl in so many beautiful colours you can totally customize to any wedding theme.

Products used

Rosegold self adhesive vinyl from GM Crafts

Paper Flowers

Die cuts

Rustic hessian ribbon

Photos on Wood

I was playing around with an idea of putting photos onto wood.

I wasn't sure that it would work for me but I knew I wanted to try it. The first couple of tries were a disaster and the image peeled away. I first tried with good old PVA although it seemed to have worked the glue just went milky and when peeling off the backing of the photo, I lost too much of the image to save.

I next tried with decopatch, this worked a little better but again I was losing too much of the image.

My final try was with a product made by Trichem called Voila, I've had this product for 10+ years and it worked beautifully.

I had to prepare the photo and created a sketch from the photo before printing onto a Matt photograph paper. Once I had brushed the Voila over the chopping board I layed on the image and let it completely dry into the Voila. That's when the fun starts, you have to soak the back of the photo and gently roll away the backing and this leaves the image in place on the wood.

I then let it dry and started to use distress inks around the edges and wrapped string and added flower and then give it a spray with a Matt varnish.

Of course once the above photo of my Daughter on her wedding day was done I needed to go on to my favourite subject of my Grandson with his Grandad.

 

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A Beautiful Day

Oh my, where do I start? I suppose it should start with how happy we all were.

Photo by Inkspot PhotograpChing ching darlings. Peter and Sue from Inkspot Photography are personal friends of ours and they are spectacular.

Oh, wedding favours.

we wanted something fun, vintage in keeping with Natalie's dress and the colour scheme and this is what we plummed for. We may have ate lots during the making of these.

It just made the day even sweeter, if that was possible.

As you can see, it was all hands on deck.

The above was the first day, Adam (now husband to Natalie) came along on the 2nd day to help fill and finish them (not daft).

Next I roped in Sarah Millsop Jewellery designer extraordinaire.

I couldn’t get a necklace to match my outfit so Sarah picked out the Swarovski Crystal for me to make my own.

Of course it didn’t stop there, she had me hooked and I went on to do matching earrings and bracelet.

Then I got to thinking (dangerous I know)

wouldn’t it be lovely to make both my own Mam and Chris’s Mam a set each of Necklace and Bracelet, so that is exactly what I did do.

As you can see I played around with the colour of theirs as I was more confident after making my own.

My Mam wearing hers on the day.

Piece of cake anyone?

I won’t show you the whole cake as yet, I will patiently await the official photographs.

Cake was made by Claire's Artistic Licence Cakes, you will find her on Facebook.

The happy couple are now on their honeymoon and the rest of us are trying to come back down to earth after the most beautiful of days.

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