Love is in the Air

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and love is in the air. So naturally my door needed a little Valentine's Day love too. This wreath is super cute and is a great to use for Valentine's Day as well for spring.

I warn you creating the pieces is a tad time consuming but once they are completed its simple to put it together. 

Here is what you will need to create this one of a kind rosette wreath:

Patterned Card Stock (for one rosette you will need 3 sheets) x 10

Solid Card Stock (again 3 sheets for one rosette) x 2

Cricut Explore

Hot Glue Gun

Flat Round Wreath Form

Ribbon

 ~ Step 1 ~

First you need to select the paper you will want to work with. I chose many different patterns to make my wreath vibrant and colorful, but I still kept in the same theme. 

Using my Cricut Explore I cut out my rosette pieces (excuse my crafting snack! If you have never tried them barkTHINS are THE best!)

~ Step 2 ~

Each rosette piece has score lines, alternate the folds so that it looks like a fan. After all of the pieces are folded (each rosette should have 5 pieces to it) using the little tab that is on the right end of each, add a little hot glue and attach to the next piece.

~ Step 3 ~

Connect the ends of the strip of fans you put together using the last tab left and a little hot glue. On the back of the connected rosette hot glue one of the circles that you cut out along with the rosette. Do the same to the front with a different pattern or colored paper.

~ Step 4 ~

Once all of the rosettes have been put together it's time to attach them to the foam wreath form. I arranged them randomly on the wreath form until I was happy with the final product. Snap a pic of the arrangement take them off and then start to hot glue them back on.

~ Step 5 ~

Last but not least it's time to add some ribbon. I added this cute chevron ribbon I found at Michaels in the valentines day section. I thought the colors would work to carry the wreath over into spring.

To add a little flare I tied a double loop bow. This wreath makes me super happy and extremely ready for warm spring weather (as another 10 -18 inches of snow is expected to fall tonight into tomorrow, gotta love New England winters).

I hope you enjoyed this Valentine's Day inspired post! 

Happy Crafting! ~ T

I would love to see your versions of this wreath! Send them to my email located on my Contact Me Page and I will feature it on my next blog post!

Batter Up!

There is nothing better than thinking of spring time, and the warmer weather that lies ahead. When I was contacted to do wedding invitations with a baseball theme I jumped at the chance. What is more spring time then America's favorite past time. 

The task at hand was to create RedSox themed invites for the Bride and Groom who are die hard fans. It was an intriguing task and I immediately had tons of ideas floating in my head. 

My idea was a pocket invite with an insert that looks like a ticket and a matching RSVP card with the same ticket look. I wanted the insert to have a vintage baseball feel with the RedSox colors.Here is what I designed using my Cricut Design Space software.

I picked out a navy blue linen pocket invite, metallic champagne cardstock for the insert/RSVP, and Jupiter red metallic paper for the accents all which I got from Paper and More.

Once all of the pieces were cut out It was time to put everything together. 

To apply the the insert I used my Scotch Advanced Tape Glider. It is a must have tool for any paper crafter.

Once the insert has been adhered to the inside of the pocket invite it's time to add the accents.Small pieces like the lettering, the and sign, and the pennant are hard to put adhesive on and the Xyron Sticker Maker is the perfect solution to that. 

For the outside of the invite to tie everything together (literally) I chose a red and white bankers twine to tie around the pocket invite one it was closed. To add a little something I cut out a cute baseball bat with the names of the bride and Groom printed on it. 

Here is the final product all wrapped up!!

Speckled craft paper envelopes for the RSVP card and the invite round it out to give it a vintage baseball feel. 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post as much as I enjoyed creating such a unique wedding invitation!

Happy Crafting!! ~ T

What kind of themed invites would you like to see on the blog? 

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Taylor Ink Does Weddings!!

Hello all my fellow crafters! It has been so long. I apologize for my hiatus. 

Between work and the holidays, things were a tid bit crazy around here. However, I am back and committed to sharing my love of crafting and DIY with the masses. 

Today's post has everything to do with weddings. I am at that age when every one around me is getting engaged and married. One of those people in particular is my cousin Alyssa!! As she is more like a sister and  I am the maid of honor I aimed to make this experience as special as possible for her. 

Here are a couple of engagement projects I put together to celebrate the occasion. 

I created a flower bouquet out of paper for dress shopping and hopefully she can use it for the wedding rehearsal. Above all I wanted her to have a special keepsake.  

To create this beautiful bouquet I selected different types and sizes of flowers from the Cricut image library. Cutting was the easy part...

Assembling was the more difficult part but totally worth the final product. Thanks to my mom not only did it go quicker then I expected but I was nice to do a crafting project together. (I will do another blog post on how to assemble and tricks I picked up through trial and error)

Once all of the flowers have been assembled like this...

I added some embellishment

Using floral wire and floral tape I attached the flowers to their stems and started to form my bouquet.

 

After I finished my labor of love, it was time to put the engagement basket together! I bought a basket from Michael's that I got for a steal and created a really simple banner to adorn it. 

Some of the items in my basket included a monogrammed tea tumbler (I made by using the same monogramming technique I explain in my Vinyl Monogram and Bows post), a burlap and lace guest book by the fabulous David Tutera , personalized luggage tags from Shutterfly, an Alex and Ani bracelet with the path of life symbol in blue enamel (can you tell what the wedding colors are going to be),  and the paper flower bouquet. For a final touch I filled the tumbler with gummy ring pops as well as lined the bottom of the basket with the same yummy gummy candies :-)

And finally drum roll please.........The piece de resistance of my engagement bundle was the calendar inspired save the dates. 

On Pinterest I saw a lot of the same ideas used for save the dates. It wasn't until I was searching through the Cricut image library that I stumbled upon these awesome calendar cut outs. As I was looking through the different months a light bulb went off. Why couldn't these be turned into save the dates!?!? And that my friends is exactly what I did. I wanted to wait until she mailed them out before I shared in a blog post. Without further a do, here they are!

I added the love birds on a branch and updated the numbering that came with them. The calendars were originally for 2014. I also mixed it up by making some with  gold backing and some with champagne backing. Her colors as you have guessed by now are Navy Blue and champagne with some gold touches here and there.

It's honestly all about the details. I hand tied small twine bows and cut out little navy blue tags with the year on them. 

I am just so happy with how these turned out and I can't wait to share with you the wedding invites!!

 They are a secret for now but as soon as they are out the door I will be putting a post up. 

In the mean time look for a post on baseball themed wedding invitations coming soon!!

As always friends, Happy Crafting! ~ T

Taylor Ink does weddings! If you are looking for an invitation service look no further! I am available to do save the dates, wedding invitations, bridal invites, baby shower invites and much much more! You can contact me by email which can be found on my Contact Me page.