SAVE THE DATE!!!


Well this post will begin with a great big OUCH!!


I managed to smash my hand in a fire door at work a week and a bit ago, and even though it may off hurt like crazy, meant a trip to the hospital and being in pain for a while, it was some how...


A blessing in disguise...


Luckily it was my left hand, so i still had the ability to use my right hand with no bother, and seeing as I am right handed, this was very lucky.


I got signed off from work for a week, not being able to drive, clean, go to the gym, even wash my hair (i had to wait for the fiance to come home from work to do my hair, Luckily I'm marrying a hairdresser :) ) all i was left with was drawing up my "save the dates". 


Which really needed to be started as they need to be sent out within the next month.


Sooooo...


I sort off had an idea in my head, i wanted to incorporate aspects which will be appearing on our wedding day into the save the dates.


These aspects included

• Feathers (Luke bought me a ostrich feathers quill on the day he proposed)
• Crown (I am a huge royalist so i love all things Queenie. Luke took me to the Tower of London for my birthday to see the crown jewels, which also happened to be the day he proposed)
• Fleur de Lis (Luke loves this symbol, just because its pleasing to the eye, so i said it could go in)
• Filigree (Classy, beautiful, i have it tattooed on my body, you get the picture)
• Me and Luke (Well...they need to know who it came from)

Therefore...

This is what happened once all placed together...

And a trip to the stationary shop, some snazzy posh paper later

and wolah...

A bunch of Save the Dates, all ship shape and ready to be sent out

Party Time

Let Them Eat Cake

Do you remember me telling you about the ravens...

Well here's how i used them in our engagement party.

Invitations

It was a great excuse to get stuck into some creative drawing. I knew i wanted to incorporate Ravens into the design, and the colours red, blue and white (a common site on logos around london). I work ALOT with tracing paper, have done for years, i love pencil drawing onto it, it makes such a smooth service, which in turn makes the drawings alot smoother, especially shading...blah...blah...blah

Anyway, i got the inspiration of the bottom motif from a book i have, titled 'Late Nineteenth Century Art' (a fantastic vintage book shop find).

I love filligree, so much so, i have it tattooed up half my bottom left leg. So i created the design so fit across the bottom of the invitation.

I then drew on the ravens, my favourite bit about the

invitations and gave it a black lined border just to finish it off. Then printed out loads of these designs on tracing paper.

The bottom part i created a striped pattern using my themed colours and placed the wording onto the background and printed loads of them off, then attached the illustration to the wording and i then had my invitation.