Bookish Wedding Card

This past week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend my best friend's wedding in Sacramento! It was, of course, and absolutely beautiful event. I don't know if I have seen a more adorable bride (and groom too). Happy people make me so happy!

It was a small event but not lacking in creativity or beauty. The bride and groom are definitely book people. Perhaps the book-iest couple I have ever met. Therefore these centerpieces were absolutely perfect and fitting. Gorgeous fresh flowers, stacks of books wrapped with lace and ribbon, and book page flowers.

I cannot take credit for the centerpieces, but I did want to share the card I made for the lovely bride and groom.

Of course it had to feature a book page flower. The book pages are so thin that the first time I ran it through my Silhouette Cameo, well, I will just say it- It was a complete disaster. :/ But I'm smart and I realized the problem could easily be fixed by very thoroughly adhering the book page to a piece of cardstock. Voila!

 

The peal accent is perfect because the bride's ring and earrings are pearls! The bride also loves polka dots so I thought an ivory (color of her dress!) ribbon would be perfect. 

I am very pleased with the way it turned out! I hope they like it. This is the inside of the card (before I wrote in it of course!). It features an intricate pop-up wedding cake! Fancy, but all done on the Silhouette so I can't take too much credit.

Congrats to the Bride and Groom on your marriage and continued journey together as a couple!

12DoST #8: Vehicle Origami

I used to go steady with origami. We had a nice solid relationship where I was totally obsessed. Birthdays and Christmas I would ask for origami paper, calendars, books. It probably started with Sadako and the Thousand Paper cranes. I thought of how incredible it would be to know how to make a paper crane AND make 1,000. Soon after, I learned how to make a paper crane. And it just took off from there. I would squirrel away scraps of paper and fold little boxes and flowers, lizards and goldfish.

Origami was so fantastic because it was like a smart kid puzzle I could do all by myself. I like visualizing things. I learned the symbols and folds and I forced myself to try and try again until I could execute the patterns perfectly. But enough of that poetry. Time to tie it in to the Twelve Days of Star Wars.

I'm not into trains, planes or cars in general. But the vehicles in Star Wars are incredible. I tend to be more interested in them than the creatures. They are just so fascinating. I knew that one of my countdown crafts had to include a starfighter or two.

It's been awhile since Origami and I fizzled out. Life gets busy and sometimes that happens *tear.* So what better way to re-kindle the fire then trying out some Star Wars origami?!

Most of the sources I used can be summed up quite nicely in this BuzzFeed Post.

Being the pack-rat that I am- I have this old origami calendar. It was (obviously) a genius idea to keep it because it came in handy today. The designs are intricate so it is a good idea to use thin origami paper. Even if it be from *gulp* 2005.

The first one I tried was the X-Wing Fighter by Alex Crosse HERE.



I'm obsessed with the way it turned out and proud that I was able to figure it out after all this time. I still got it! ;)

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Second I tried out the A-wing. It is listed as easy and I was riding high (pun intended) from my success with the X-wing. It didn't turn out as great as the X-wing But I like the way the red and white worked together perfectly.



Millennium Falcon was next from this infographic. It was definitely the simplest but... I'm not sure. Looks kinda like a blob. The orange paper isn't helping much either.



Lastly, a TIE Fighter from this YouTube video. I guess I saved the best for first because my first reaction after 5 minutes of trying to make it actually look like a TIE Fighter, was pants-wetting laughter.



You win some you lose some, but I had a blast trying them out and I definitely love the pattern for the X-wing.

This infographic is huge but check it out!

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