June Summer Camp 2014, Day 1, For the Bride

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Easy peasy. Make your own bridal ensemble or a congratulations

card to the bride and groom. Just something bridal and have fun!

We are making a beautiful bridal ensemble of sorts. After all, June is wedding season and maybe one of these days, I will have my own June wedding and make the entire ensemble! Baby showers for me? Uh, no way. I'm a grandmother now and make my friends' grandbaby shower everything and that's really fun. I do wish I could have contributed to my own grandson's shower.

Today's card is wedding/bridal related and it's a lovely set of Thank You cards for the new bride for all of the gifts that she received. The card itself is classic and will go with any colors that the bride chose for her wedding. It's the envelope and seal to close the envelope is where you bring in the colors of the bride that she picked for her wedding. I did my son's wedding, all of it, but the invitations and the favors. The invitations matched with the favors and my DIL really liked it. I just made everything else for her, like the place cards for the tables, the Thank You cards, and a few other others. 

I do have a scrapbook called "My Memories of Michael," which is my oldest son and the one who got married, that started with my big baby bump and an ultrasound of him the day before he was born. They didn't do ultrasounds routinely way back in 1986 so I did not find out he was a boy until April 8, but I knew knew he was a boy by my gut feeling and instinct, which I completely trust. However, hearing the "It's a boy!" was fun. He's the only baby, out of 4, who has a completed album. Nobody knows about this album and nobody has ever seen it. I almost gave it to my DIL when they got married but honestly held back because these were MY MEMORIES. Now I've had to add a few new pages to it for his brand new son and my grandson (my first grandbaby ever) Aiden Michael, who is 45 days old today. He looks like his daddy and I have side-by-side pictures of them together, Aiden is a Blancett. I wish my daddy was here to meet his new great-grandson. He would be so proud. I have one page of 4 generations of us with my daddy, myself, Mike and Aiden. The resemblance is wonderful. The day I buried my daddy was the day I found out I was going to be a grandmother. It was very melancholy. 

When I was growing up, we had this tan Speed Queen vacuum cleaner and there's this picture of myself bending over looking at it in a certain way when I was 2. When Mike was 2, dad captured the exact same picture and gave them both to me. The vacuum cleaner is now gone and so is my daddy, but I have the memories and picture, which is why I'm really starting to organize and empty out that Rubbermaid in the garage. I even brought it into the house so the change in temperatures would not affect it anymore. Hopefully I'm not too late. It's only been 20 years of sitting in the loft of the barn in my little farmhouse in New York to the attic of my Southern Plantation Mansion in Kentucky (yes, mansion, 5000 sf is a mansion and I miss that!) Catching up is going to be quite the chore, as is sorting through the pictures as I'm going to try to go chronological so the kids don't get confused looking through them after I go and see the Lord. They will look at the albums and reminisce together. I'm glad my kids have remained close and pray daily they stay that way, even though they are scattered all over the place. My youngest son, who is 19, will be leaving the nest soon. He's an over achiever who is whipping through college.   

And, on a very special note, my oldest daughter, whom I've always had a good and close relationship with,  except for a rough patch of about a year, turns 21 today. Happy Birthday Princess. Mommy loves you more. 

Now, back to work.    

After editing the video, I did not like the way that it it turned out at all so I filmed it all over again and of course, this was our most complicated and time consuming project, so I'm editing it right now and it will be up in a few hours since I have to publish it to You Tube, etc. 

In any wedding, there's usually either gold or silver with black, and admittedly, it's usually silver, i.e., utensils to cut the cake, etc. I chose gold as I felt that it went better with my ensemble. The pictures below include the outside of the Thank You card and on the inside right, is a flower stamped from Stampin' Up! Bouquet Toss with Delicata Golden Glitz Pigment Ink. I did try Metallic Encore Gold, but it did not have the bright shimmer that I was looking for. This is an absolutely lovely ensemble that I hope you enjoy and imagine how you can tweak it to your needs and use it for a variety of occasions. For the inside of my envelope liner, that's where I introduced the colors that the bride picked out. In this instance, my DIL has picked a Pistachio Pudding and Pink Pirouette as her colors so I improvised and the Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper is what came closest. 

I used a lot of product for this ensemble from a variety of manufacturers so the product list below will be a whopper. 

I do apologize for the delay but I want to do quality, not quantity. Please visit me later today to watch the video.

In the meantime until the video is published, please enjoy some pictures of what we are doing today!

 



 

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Jeremiah 23:1-2. I know my Today's Bible Treasure verses have been what some might consider "mean," rather than encouraging and uplifting. Sometimes there are very bad people out there doing very bad things to God's children and I think that's something we all know about and can relate to.

 

 

 

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