Swansia Creations: 2012

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Wedding Card

It has been a while since I last posted. I'm quite happy to post about this latest card.
With the wedding season looming for many, my friend asked me to make her a wedding card for one of her soon to be married friends.

I decided to make a wedding dress card...

This card was designed by me and cut out on my Silhouette SD.
The front of the dress was embossed using the Big Shot to give it a little texture.

The back of the dress was designed to look like a lace up dress.
I used my Crop-a-Dile Big Bite II to add the necessary eyelets...add a little ribbon and voila!
I loved how it turned out.

Inside the card is another cut out of the wedding dress on vellum, to give it some added dimensions.
I stamp embossed a simple "Congratulations" to make it complete.

Quite a simple to make card that I really enjoyed making for my friend.
I hope she likes it!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan - Baby Crochet Quilt

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan! Newly wed, now expecting parents!

For my godbrother and his new wife, who are now expecting, I made them and their expected baby a crochet quilt. Yuan's laughing because after years and years AND YEARS, I have been working on a knit blanket for him and to this day, it's still not completed. It'll probably never be completed...hehehe However, after dedicating all of January to the making of a baby blanket for them, it was completed as planned.

The crochet quilt is made up of little hexagon pieces.

Instructions for a single hexagon piece:
Chain 4, form ring with a slst
Chain 2, 19 DC inside the ring, slst to finish the first row
Chain 2, 5 DC inside first DC, skip 2 DC, 6 DC in next DC, repeat around, slst to finish second row
Chain 1, 5 SC inside first DC, SC in next 5 DC then 5 SC in 6th DC, repeat around, slst to finish third and final row.