Wedding invitation with swans

April 2, 2015 Needlework techniques / Scrapbooking / Scrapbooking workshops 4 161 0

The spring-summer 2015 wedding season is approaching, and the turquoise color is becoming the relevant and fashionable color of this year, it is also called the tiffany color. Accordingly, every modern young girl tries to match the trends and preferences of the new season. Preparing for a wedding is a very serious and quite responsible business, therefore, getting ready for a wedding is a troublesome business. Every little thing is important so that everything goes at the highest level. There are also special wedding companies that from scratch are engaged in the full design of a wedding celebration. He will turn and take advantage of the help of specialists, this is good and necessary, but there are certain little things that a young bride should do herself, and carefully monitor everything. For example, the bride herself can pick up a dressmaker, come up with the design of her wedding dress, or choose it in a catalog or store of wedding accessories. And there is such a responsible nuance, a list of guests and invitations for them. The volume of guests at the wedding for each couple is different, many generally prefer to invite only family and closest friends. It doesn’t matter in principle, and the most important thing is to come up with wedding invitations, which you can do yourself, and use additional skills and accessories of the technique scrapbooking. It is with this master class that we are going to get to know now, but for this we need to take the following:
• Watercolor paper, a large sheet of A3;
• Mother-of-pearl white cardboard with embossed butterflies, sheet A4;
• Paper for scrapbooking in mint green;
• Felled hearts of tiffany color, only 4 pcs;
• 4 cut down turquoise butterflies;
• 4 pictures with swans;
• Turquoise satin ribbon 0.5 cm wide;
• White calla lilies, 4 flowers;
• Complex white stamens with nacre;
• Stamens are white and blue;
• White narrow satin ribbon;
• Flowers fabric colors of tiffany 15 mm in diameter;
• Pearl half beads 4 mm;
• Stamp “Invitation”;
• Sea green ink;
• Puncher flower border;
• Acrylic block;
• A set of wedding acrylic stamps;
• PVA glue, double-sided tape, glue gun;
• Corner hole punch;
• Ruler, elastic, scissors and pencil.

First of all, we prepare the basics for invitations. Four rectangles of 14.5 * 16 cm are cut out of watercolor paper, then we divide each of them in half and fold the already prepared bases of 8 * 14.5 cm in size. In total, the master class is designed for four wedding invitations, respectively, of materials for the same amount.

Now we will decorate the front parts of the invitations. To do this, we take mother-of-pearl embossed cardboard, scrapbook paper and pictures.

We cut out four rectangles of 7.7 * 6.5 cm and four rectangles of pearlboard 7.7 * 9.5 cm from scrapbook paper. We take pictures 5 * 5.2 cm in size.

Mother-of-pearl rectangles are punched below with a floral punch, scrap the rectangles are stamped with turquoise ink with the inscription “Invitation”.

Now we glue the blanks in pairs with each other with PVA glue.

Now on top of them we glue turquoise hearts, and on top with double-sided tape we glue pictures.

Sew each picture on a typewriter. Now we attach, wrap and glue the turquoise ribbon behind the picture below.

We now glue these scrapbook stains to watercolor strings on pieces of double-sided tape.

Sew each separately with a typewriter. We stamp inside each invitation the newlyweds, rings and the inscription invitation.To do this, we put the stamp on the acrylic block, dip it in an ink pillow and put the inscription or picture where necessary.