Wendy Vecchi For The Lovely Rachel ....

It's the lovely Rachel's birthday soon (No. 1 son's girlfriend).  He has bought her a Spa Day for herself and four of her friends.  Now Matt always makes an effort and a few Sundays ago he had come for a visit and saw the plaque I had made a short while ago (see earlier post).  He thought it would be rather a wheeze for me to make him five invitations along similar lines.  So being the good mother that I am, I set to work .....

The base of the invitations is as before - chipboard shape (by tracing around a Tim Holtz Grungeboard book page), and covered with Basic Grey Porcelain papers.  This time the Studio 490 'Rules to Live By' are stamped on more BG Porcelain paper which was mounted on a Nesties Label chipboard shape (run the chip through the Wizard twice).  Then I went to town with the flowers, leaves, swirls and butterflies ......

Everything was stamped on Grungepaper and coloured with Distress Inks (the old ones - I have a few of the new ones but I'm still stroking them - lol) buttons of various sizes were added and finally a touch of a Glitter Pen here and there (love the way the Grungepaper curls if you heat it with a heat gun) ....

Here's another view ....

Here's the back of the plaque - with the actual invitation on another Nesties Label shape cut from chipboard with more Studio 490 stamps ....

Then it occurred to me - how to wrap them up.  So out come the Bind it All and I made a box (well a container really, 'cos it hasn't got a lid) ....

The box is cut from the last of my chipboard (adding to the NEC shopping list as I type - lol) and punched  away with the Bind It All.  Each side is covered with K & Co papers that I have had for ever and then it's all bound together with lengths of natural coloured raffia. The raffia was a bit of a pain 'cos it kept splitting  - but I do like a challenge - lol.

End result - a very sturdy 'container' - which will be handy for keys, loose change,  sweeties and other bits and bobs.  Thinking now that these would make nice pressies .....

More raffia was cut up to form a 'nest' inside for the invitations to stand in.  I was going to put some more Studio 490 flowers around the outside but decided to make 'tiles' of some of the definitions on the paper instead ....

And - voila - here's the completed pressie ....

I hope Rachel likes it - and you do too ....