Thursday 9 September 2010

a steampunk wedding at the Play Date Cafe


This week we've been sponsored by Creative Cuts, who sent the whole team a collection of wedding themed die cuts.  And it's a colour splash week, which was great for a wedding theme.  Just look at the colours Julie chose:

This week you get to choose your 'splash' colour from pink, copper or gold.  I was going to turn my cake box into something with legs etc but then discovered that Steampunk Weddings are happening out in the wedding world (and there are some cool ideas out there, just google 'steampunk wedding' for some fab images!) so decided to go with that as a useable theme.


The cake boxes fit together (if you have enough of them!) to make a whole cake so I co-ordinated them to work in this way.  I cuttlebugged the boxes and added zips, lace, cuttlebugged copper and stamped clocks and butterflies.


The butterfly is by Memory Box, and the clocks by The Artistic Stamper.


The wedding card came as a blank white card with the die cut edge and dress shaped aperture.  I put the cuttlebugged copper sheet behind the aperture, and added the pearls, then sewed lace and zip along the fold.  The 7 gypsies paper inside and the snap fasteners are elements I only added because the colour challenge is 'black and white with a splash of ...', but I'm glad I did.  That's the great thing about challenges, sometimes you end up doing things you wouldn't otherwise do!

Although our design team are using Creative Cuts pieces,  you can enter with anything that is

black and white with a splash of
pink/gold/copper

Check out the design team's pieces over at the Play Date Cafe, or individually here:

 

Have fun with these colours :)

19 comments:

  1. Absolutely FAB! I love that you really worked in the copper and of course, steampunk just makes sense, doesn't it?!
    Love it girlie xx

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  2. Teampunk weddings? Whatever next! Love your cake boxes.

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  3. I knew your wedding projects would be very fun and you didn't disappoint. Great ideas with the embellies and embossing.

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  4. A steampunk wedding? What a cool idea!

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  5. LOVE what you've done on these Sarah! Great ideas! Great use of that copper too!!!

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  6. Great idea Steampunk Wedding, and I love the copper behind the dress and the addition of the zip, very unique idea. Have a good day, Tracy x

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  7. Love your wildly decorated cake boxes Sarah! Awesome trims, images and textures...all assembled in an eye-pleasing fashion. And I adore that copper dress on the card. WOW, it's all super FAB!

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  8. Loving your steampunk wedding theme and those cake boxes are brill. Beats pink and frilly any day!!!

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  9. Great take on this weeks challenge incorporating the Steampunk into the wedding die cuts! Very creative!

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  10. YOU ROCK, Sarah! These are so fun--I love that copper metal on each cake! LOVE IT! And that lace--perfect touch! SO FUN! You are so creative--love love love it:)

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  11. WOW, love your creative eye...these are terrific creations! Incorporating the copper is such a fabulous idea, and love how you used the metals in all your pieced...love these!

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  12. Steampunk cake boxes!! Whatever next!!

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  13. OMGosh! Those cake boxes are DIVINE and I like how you told us they fit together and you designed them to co-ordinate! FAB project!

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  14. Definitely some fun pieces and so creative!!

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  15. Wonderful designs, love the boxes :)

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  16. OHhhh FANTASTIC! Love the metallics with those cake slices and wedding ensembles - Great job with the dies!

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  17. Super duper pretty! Love the copper with black, so dramatically elegant! Such a cool edgy-ness to it :)

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  18. So sorry for your loss, is Scout a furbaby? You and your companions look like y'all are having so much fun!!!!Love your paper creations too!!!
    blessings,Flora

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