Got the bouquet done :-)

I guess the few years I worked at a florist has paid off! I remember many long nights wiring pics and roses for weddings the next day. Although it has been several (wont say how many :-) years since I worked on a wedding, all of the skills came back! My hands worked like they never took a break. Believe it or not, it took  time to learn how to wrap wires while pulling and wrapping  florist tape at the same time, but I still have it down :-)

These flowers are for my "adopted" daughter's wedding. She did not want to do fresh flowers for a couple of reasons, one was the expense, and another was she wanted something she could save. The wedding is going to be small, only one brides maid, so I only have to make 3 bouquets.

This is the bridal bouquet

This is the brides maids

This is the bouquet she will throw to the single ladies :-)

(I kept this one small)

These are the boutonnieres

She is getting married at this adorable little chapel! Now that I have this portion of the flowers done it is time to start thinking about decorating the chapel!! We are doing a rustic/country theme... my mind is running with ideas!!

More Custom Hand Carved Rubber Stamps

Over the past few months I have carved several custom stamps, just have not had a chance to post all the pictures.... soooo here they are :-)))

The picture on the left is what I was sent to duplicate

These word stamps are super tiny!! all around 1/2 inch!!

Save the date

although you can not tell by the picture

this stamp is small... it is a return address

stamp. It was VERY difficult to carve the letters

so tiny!!

this was for letterboxers :-) A lot of fun to carve these

the picture on the left is what I was sent to duplicate

Another letterboxing stamp

Another Exciting Custom

Just finished another custom order!! So, I get a request from the owners of a really cool new restaurant that just opened in California. Here is a link to their web site
http://www.goodlandkitchen.com/
They requested  a 5" wide stamp of their logo to stamp their bags with. That is a pretty large stamp, and it turned out great! :-)))

I printed the logo in black and white, for carving purposes, you can see the original logo in the second to last picture...  I am soooo happy with the results!! The stamp is almost identical to the original logo!!

I love this custom hand carved stamp!!

I just finished another custom ordered stamp. I had a lot of fun carving this one! Probably because the buyer has the cutest idea for the stamp. The buyer has a daughter who is getting married and will be acquiring the last name of Beam. They are using the theme of mason jars and fireflies and saw my mason jar firefly listing I have in my shop.They are making their invitations and other embellishments and asked me to carve the jar larger and carve the last name Beam into it just like "Ball" is on the mason jars. I loved the idea! How cute is that... Beam and fireflies, I love it :-) So here is the stamp... I think it is sooo cute :-) I hope I get to see their finished projects...

Custom hand carved rubber stamps 4" !!

I received an order from an adorable fellow etsy seller, she requested three 4" stamps of images I have for sale in my shop. The stamps are HUGE and absolutely adorable! My mind is reeling with possibilities for projects using these stamps :-) I can see some adorable cards being made with these, maybe with the words sweet, or sweetie, or you are sweet, or something to that effect :-) The lemon slice is stamped in green just to be sure the pictures turned out, but it can also be a lime slice!

My first ATC's (Atrist Trading Cards)... I am hooked!!

Well, I guess I am hooked.... again :-) I joined a really cool group of paper crafters!! This group exchanges paper crafts through swaps, I signed up for the artist trading card swap... my first swap
 :-))
The theme of the swap is somewhere in time. It was pretty easy for me to think of a design for the first one. With all the talk of the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus my thoughts went to the fact that no one know the day or the hour... it will be some where in time.

I was pretty proud of this little card :-) My first ATC... I was done, time to mail it off :-)

OOPS.... I was wrong, I later found out I needed to make 3 more for the swap :-) I now became a little nervous... could I come up with 3 more ideas??

I did!! Here they are!

Changed the listing pics, thanks to great advice!!

A big thank you to the comments on my last post! I took the great advice and changed my pictures...also added how the stamps can be used in the listing title.