I wanted to create some wedding cards to take up to Fullfill and decided on some products from The Greetery.

 Here is a look at a plantable card design I took up to Fullfill.

 I wanted to make up some cards that could be used for a wedding, engagement, or anniversary and decided to take out the Love Is set from The Greetery and use this beautiful boxwood heart.

 I got to attend a beautiful wedding down in Montana this weekend at my old roommate's family cabin on Glen Lake. Knowing the beautiful setting, I just had to pull out the Reflections set from The Greetery to make her card.

 It was my cousin's wedding this weekend up in the Caribou! My cousin, Jill, is always up for an outdoor adventure, so when I saw the Build-a-Campsite from Lawn Fawn I knew that would be just what I needed to make her a special wedding card.

Here is a plantable wedding card that I made a few of for an order.

I got a fun request to make up some "will you...be my bridesmaid" cards for someone I connected with through Instagram. She gave me a colour palette from Pinterest and asked that two be the same and one be a little more special to ask the maid of honour.

Plantable handstamped daisies on plantable paper embedded with wildflower seeds! While it took some time to crank out all of these daisies and stamp each one (about 4 different stamps for each flower that were second and third generation stamped for some of them!) I love how they look in this sweet mason jar. This darker plantable paper provided a great backdrop for this bouquet and made for a great wedding card! You can check out the wedding invitations I made for this wedding here.

Here is my inspiration pic!

We have a family wedding coming up and I decided to make a special gift for the bride-to-be to give to her at her bridal shower. I was able to collect favourite recipes from both sides of the family to compile them into one book for the bride. I used this set from Close To My Heart to help me put it all together! The recipe stand is from Lane and Meadow :).

I am SO EXCITED to show off some plantable invitations! Someone in the family asked me to make some wedding shower invitations for their daughter and I couldn't wait to try them out using this paper and my Cricut. I found some awesome calligraphy pens to use in the Cricut and set to work creating a simple design with these beautiful plumeria flowers from an older Hawaiian Close To My Heart set. I am loving this plantable paper! You can see video of my planting experience with this paper on my Instagram highlights. This picture shows the wildflower seedlings that have popped up from me planting a Mother's Day card embedded with wildflower seeds! I am linking up to the Heart2Heart challenge to "get your craft on" because I certainly felt that way with this project!

How exciting is it for mail day when you actually end up having some time to play with your new stuff?! I happened to luck out the other day when I opened my package from The Greetery and had some free time during nap time to play around! Since I am having trouble getting the painted effect I want on the plantable paper I thought these stamps would be perfect to achieve the watercolour feel I am going for and they did not disappoint! I cannot wait to check out The Greetery's latest release next week!

A gloomy day just begs for some watercolour time! I am loving the Canson cold press watercolour paper that I picked up at our local art supplies store at Cranbrook Photo. The heavyweight of the paper is perfect and I really like how the ink moves on it. I have been playing around with these blooms all week and am finally satisfied with them after some helpful tips from my Auntie Karen! I wanted to create a card for my friend's wedding shower and she loves the colour purple. I thought the simple "love" sentiment that came along with the dies for this set was perfect to use in a gold foil. I wanted to keep the background simple but add a bit of visual interest so I pulled out an embossing folder - haven't done that in a long time!

I am linking up with the Heart2Heart challenge about tools. The tool I couldn't live without for these invitations definitely has to be my Cuttlebug - along with all of these Close To My Heart thin cuts! For these invitations I used our Basic Hearts + Stitched Hearts + Stitched Rectangle Frames. I love how they came together with this lilac organza ribbon I found at FabricLand.

I am so pleased that these beautiful custom wedding invitations are finally complete! I have been designing and working on them for the past few months. Don't you love finishing a project? It feels so satisfying! I hand painted 70 of these floral bundles using distress oxide inks. I really like the soft and chalky look they give the image. The bride had an idea on how she wanted the wording and we came up with a template using Google Docs so that we could easily work on it together without sending it back and forth. I was able to print these off onto heavyweight Lawn Fawn cardstock and then heat emboss the image from Simon Says Stamp Floral Bliss stamp set before colouring them up with the inks. I was so pleased to be ready to photograph these invitations that I went down to our local floral shoppe, MJs Floral Boutique, where they helped me pick out just the right sprigs to include :).

This card is a bit of a throwback to a card design I created last year, but I really love the effect of painting with the distress oxide inks on kraft. I also like how versatile this card can be for a wedding or anniversary. Available soon at Lane and Meadow :)

I was in my friend Sarah's wedding last weekend down in Polson, Montana. We lived together in Victoria with two other girls, Micki and Aretha, for 3 years while we were going to the University of Victoria. Sarah asked me to put together this canvas for her guests to sign at the wedding that would showcase where she was from (Alberta) and where he was from (Montana). It turned out to be a great keepsake that now hangs in their home.
To make this I started out with an 18x24 white canvas. I mixed navy blue acrylic paint with some black acrylic to get a darker navy and painted the entire canvas. After that was dry, I painted on the Alberta and Montana outlines with rose gold acrylic paint and then carefully did the lettering with a paintbrush as well. I was very glad to have played with the layout ahead of time in a mockup with white paper that I created to-size so that I already had an idea of where everything was to go and around what size it should be. Guests were able to sign the finished canvas with silver and gold sharpies :)

Fusion #18

This card is probably my all-time favourite that I have created with Verve:

Carpe Diem

And here is a wedding card I created for this weekend using a couple of items I got from Verve's closing out sale and the colour theme of the wedding:

I know I will continue to love and use these much-loved products over the years of creating and crafting, especially when I go to make coffee or tea cards! Thank you, Julee, for sharing your creativity with us!

My roommate from university just got engaged and I was stoked to make her a congratulatory card! When I was first introduced to Studio Katia designs a little while ago I was really pumped to learn they were a Canadian company! One of my new year's resolutions is to support more local places so I was very excited to get some of their awesome products recently. Here's what I came up with:

A family member recently got engaged and requested a card for her best friend to ask her to be the maid of honour. I was inspired by the bride-to-be's engagement ring of rose and white gold so I tried to incorporate that into the card. She also requested the following sentiment, so I printed it off on a laser printer and ran it through my Minc machine in silver.