I started out on Friday making 600+ flowers, lining them up individually and spraying them with glimmer mist. Then I packed up everything we needed in my trusty crop case.
Then on Saturday morning I got up bright and early (well for me anyway) at 9:00 am and headed over to my sister’s house to start things up. However, it was a false start because I had forgotten the heat gun and no one else was there yet. So I returned home and went back again.
I got there and put everybody to work. This is my niece, Alicia, and her fiancé, Chris, putting the flowers together. No, they’re not smoking cigars; they’re chomping on carrot sticks.
Shortly after we got started, my sister had lunch ready. Roasted chicken, potato salad and baked beans. Yummy!
After we ate, we got started up again into an assembly line. I was cutting the invitations, my sister was cutting the inserts, my niece continued to assemble the flowers, my mother was stamping and Chris was embossing, After about 4 invitations, the heat gun broke. Yes, the same one I had forgotten. Chris and Alicia left to get a new heat gun and brought it back. They had some other things they needed to do so they were out for the rest of the afternoon.
The rest of us continued with our tasks! We thought it would take about 5 hours to complete. Alicia and Chris got back at about the same time as we thought we would have been done and we weren’t hardly done at all.
We moved Chris to stamping and embossing (the most time consuming task). Alicia started gluing the belly band around the card.
My sister was folding the belly bands.
My mother was tying the ribbon around the middle and I was attaching the insert and folding.
We finished about 11:00 pm, taking about twice as long as I thought it would. But we had a good time chatting and laughing.
All in all, we had a great time and now I have a brand new heat gun!
I didn’t get a picture of the finished product but I’ll get a shot later. I need to order a photo collage to put with the invitations. I want to get back to my cards, ut before I can get anything new made, I’m going to have to clean my craft room because everything was thrown around while I packed to get ready for the party!
Blessings,
Christine
6 comments:
wow! i'm exhausted. i feel like i was on that assembly line! but i just love the story and cannot wait to see the final result. thanks soooo much for sharing.
hugs,
Goodness! What a project!
This project is just so sweet of you to do. Wow!
Wish I could have been there, it sounds like it was fun. I think that the kids would have added more chaos than anything though.
It does sound like you had fun, but a lot of work, too, huh? I'll bet they look fab. This was very nice of you!
You're so generous to do this awesome project! But I think you're having fun with it too! Good for you!
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