Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Bouquet

My maids of honor and I decided we would do the bouquets (for 5 bridesmaids and myself), boutonnieres (for 5 groomsmen, groom, 3 ring bearers, pastor, 2 dads, 5 grandfathers) and the corsages (2 mothers, 4 grandmothers and one sister). Quite an undertaking, I tell you! After a couple hours of shopping and three nights working for five hours, we were done!

The lovely lady holding a bridesmaids' bouquet in the above photo is Savanna, a life-long friend.
The equally lovely lady 'hiding' behind my bouquet is my wonderful friend, Heather. It is hard to see, but I also added some stickels to the dots randomly in the large circle.
The ribbon running along the bottom of the pages (gold) and the ribbon used in the bow are leftovers from our bouquets. The purple is Offray brand 1/2 inch and the gold is Big Lots Holiday Gold Wired Ribbon. Fun Fact: The Easter Lillys in the bouquets were white and the gals colored them with fabric spray paint (they said it was fun~I wasn't there).
You can't have flowers without butterflies! The butterfly and the scalloped circles are from the Stamping Cricut Cartridge. The Cala Lily digi stamps (there are 3 total) are from Shell at Silly Shells Digital Creations (she has loads of free digis!)
The sentiment that worked so nicely with our creating of bouquets is from Ann at Sentimental Sundays. I colored it with pastels and added some stickles. Below you can see the lily again.
The sketch for this layout can be found at Creative Scrapbook Divas (I entered this in a challenge there). It really pushed me to be percise (all the photo sizes were designated), and to be creative in adding the details (hence the lilies, rather than the dots).

Other Challenges:
Anything Goes-the letter B-B is for Bouquet!
Connie and Mary-anything that glitters
One Stop Craft Challenge-Anything Goes
MamiDoodles-anything but a card
Little Paper Shop-Buttons and Bows
Flutterby Wednesday-Anything goes+fairy or butterfly
Creative Inspirations- Glitter, Glamor, Girly
Crafty Creations-Fables and Fairytales-getting ready for a fairytale wedding :)

Whew! That was a lot!

14 comments:

  1. What a great page! Love how you've used the sentiment :)

    - Ann

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  2. Every girl dreams of a fairy tale wedding right!? Lovely layout! Thanks for playing the Crafty creations challenge!
    smiles,Deena

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  3. Wow! What a labor of love! Fabulous scrapbook pages ~ love the lilly and butterfly accents. Thanks for joining us at Flutterby Wednesday this week. :)

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  4. Goodness, that was a LOT of work! Beautiful pages - love all of the details you added! Very classy!!! Thanks for joining us this week at Flutter By Wednesday! Hope to see you back next week!

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  5. Brandi a lovely layout ant the flowers are just stunning, clever girls

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  6. Beautiful lay-out!!

    Lovely to see your work at Crafty Creations Challenge! Thanks for joining us and good luck!

    Greetings, Saskia
    (guest designer)

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  7. Beautiful bouquets, great that you recorded everything in this beautiful LO. Thanks for taking part in the Mami Doodles challenge.

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  8. Awesome layout Brandi!! I love purple so this one is on my list of favs!

    I really need to do some scrappin soon... My albums are feeling neglected =(

    Thanks for the compliment on Gretta Gobble this morning (((Hugs)))

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  9. Great layout. Beautiful bouquet. Thank you for joining us at Anything Goes. Love Sandra x

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  10. Wow what a beautiful layout! Thanks for playing with us at Flutter By Wednesday!

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  11. That was certainly a labour of love. Beautiful flowers and layout. Thank you for joining us at Creative Inspiration This week.
    Hugs
    Suzi x

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  12. Wow Brandi this is one excellent page wonderful work the detail and design is superb thank you so much for sharing this with us at Creative Inspirations.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  13. Fab layouts and stunning flowers! Thanks so much for joining in with the Creative Inspirations challenge this week.
    Jenni x

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