Saturday 31 August 2013

A Very Guildy Wedding

After numerous combat rolls, sneak checks, magic spell attacks and defence rolls, it was time to put the dice aside and celebrate the joining of Guild Apprentice Lindsay and her partner, High Scholar Brendan. Don’t think us guildys naively attended the celebration without some weapons and potions. You can never be too prepared, especially in these parts.

I made this wedding card for our friends who are also our board game playing buddies. We have burned the candles down and spent many a long night playing various games with them, so it only seemed appropriate to incorporate that into their wedding card. The dice were suuuuuper annoying to make. I cut out the “wooden block” image using the Wrap It Up cartridge and had to modify it so you couldn’t see the letter on the block. I don’t have a Gypsy, so this meant hand cutting some panels to cover up the “a” on the face. I then just cut some black circles for the pips on the dice. The top hat and bow I cut using the Create-a-Critter 2 cartridge. The bouquet came from the Freshly Picked cartridge. I made a veil using a scrap of orange ribbon that I removed from an old knick-knack I no longer had any use for and some tuel? (Is that what that white stuff is called? I don’t even know - lol. A friend just gave me a bundle of the stuff). Some googely eyes (different sized of course) finished off these dice people.

I embossed the background paper using my Cuttlebug and a folder that I think is actually dominos. I thought with the dice bride and groom though, they looked close enough to being dice. I stamped the banner using the Lawn Fawn “Bannerific” set and cut it out. The sentiment inside the banner was from the Lawn Fawn “Sophie’s Sentiments” set. Some brads finished off the front of this card.


On the inside I printed off this sentiment (that came from the depths of my brain) using my computer then stamped the corners using the Inkadinkado “Decorative Corners” set. 

I used the same stamp on the corners of the envelope to make it all matchy-match.

I kept the colour scheme to pink and orange since those were their wedding colours. I know this picture is blurry, but I wanted to show you the colours in her actual bouquet.
And here is the head table done up in all its pink and orange glory.
The Crafters Guild even got a special shout out when the bride and groom were doing their “thank you speech” for helping make the decorations for their car! (He literally said "thank you to the Crafters Guild for their help with decorating the car - heehee).
Here we all are at the wedding! From left the right, Guardian of Glitter, Lady Commander of Copics and me, Guild Master Crystal :)

This dicey wedding card will roll into the following challenges:
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #108: Initials (CT - “Cricut & Cuttlebug” & “Tophat”)
Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge #142: used ribbon, brads and gem
Love to Scrap! Challenge #12: Bingo (if the banner and sentiment are not enough stamping, please feel free to delete my entry)
Fairy Tale Challenge #75: Recipe - something round (brads and googley eyes), something old (that scrap of orange ribbon used to be tied around the neck of an oooooooold nick-nack I’ve had since I was a kid), one gemstone (on the bow tie)

Surprisingly, the wedding went down without a demon invasion or dark wizard attack. I think it must be a first. We wished the newlyweds well on their new quest together and headed back to the Guild Hall to prepare for our next crafty quest.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

18 comments:

Hazel said...

You did so well with the dice. Thank you for sharing your lovely card for The Cheerful Stamp Pad 'free choice' challenge, Hazel, Cheerful stamp pad DT. x

Margaret said...

Such a cute card and sentiment. Thanks for joining us at Tammy's Scrapin Corner for this challenge.
Margaret. DT

Heather said...

A fabulous card - I love the domino theme, great embossing and I love the 'couple' with cute googly eyes!!!

Thanks so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
hugs
Heather xx

Shuly said...

hahahhahaha EXCELLENT!!! the card the blog, the comments, the "protect the cute and defend the kawaii", the "suuuuper annoying to make" the photos, what a refreshing time i had reading your post!! and super card, magnificient wedding (thanks for showing!!)
thanks for sharing on love to scrap!
shuly DT

Uta said...

Your wedding card is so cute with the cubes. Thanks for joining us at the Fairytale Challenge.
Hugs, Uta

Unknown said...

What a great idea! Too cute! Thanks for sharing at Tammy's Scrapin' Corner this week for our "Anything Goes" challenge.
Trudy DT Member

Elaine Stark said...

A brilliant unique card. The happy couple would love it. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

karalschuknecht said...

This is a great card and so is the sentiment. Thanks for joining us this week for "Anything Goes."
Karal DT for Tammy's Scrapin Corner
My Blog: Karals Creative Corner

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Adorable wedding card, great idea. Love the google eyes. Thanks so much for joining in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Tracy x

Dewi Lestari said...

Fab wedding card! Love the idea with the dice
Thanks for joining at Fairy Tale Challenge: Recipe
Hugs
Dewi GD

Michelle said...

What a fun and clever card! The google eyes are awesome! :). Thanks for joining us for the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge. ~Michelle

Lisa Minckler said...

Absolutely hilarious!!! LOOOVED this post and your descriptive feelings over creating the dice; which btw...look magnificent. Fantastic post and congratulations to the happy couple and may you all have years upon years of gaming it together.
Thanks so much for playing in our challenge at Top Tip Tuesday.
Lisa :)

Bettina L. said...

What a fun wedding card.My hubby would have loved an idea like that I guess. Love the details with the eyes, hat and bow too. Thanks for playing at Top Tip Tuesday and good luck, Hope to see you back tuesday for another challenge, Bettina DT Member at Top Tip Tuesday xx

Unknown said...

This is too cute. Thanks for playing along with us at Brown Sugar.

Michele said...

awesome themed wedding card! thanks for joining our "your choice" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad! xo

Qie said...

Absolutely beautiful creation. love the dies with eyes. Thanks for playing along with our challenge at Brown sugar. Good well.

Bianca said...

What a lovely cute and perfect card! That´s really something unic. The lovely cuble will save it forever! Thank you for joining us at Fairytale Challenge! xx Bianca

Jenny said...

Ein witziges Kärtchen ist das. Danke für deine Teilnahme bei Fairy tale Challenge. LG Jenny

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