A Little Romance

I admit it.  I have a romantic soul.  I love old movies (Casablanca anyone?) and classic elegance makes my heart go pitter pat.  And I love the idea of weddings.  A wedding is the culmination of everything romantic all at once – the white dress, the gorgeous flowers, the music, the champagne….. sigh.
Did I mention I love weddings?

So much so that I’ve been intimidated by the thought of making a wedding kit, certain that I could never make something that would meet my expectations of all that it should be.  I put the idea on a back burner for someday, when I felt like I could do it justice
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Not too long ago I saw a post in the In Search Of threads at Digishoptalk from my friend Amanda, also known everywhere scrappy as Photocowgirl.  Amanda and I have known each other for years, we were beginner scrappers together.  But I digress.  Amanda was looking for an elegant wedding kit with royal blue in it.    Her sister Ashton is getting married and she was looking for something that matched Ashton’s palette.  Amanda’s was the nudge that finally pushed me into making the wedding kit I had long wanted to make.

Ashton’s Romance was born.





As I was working on it, the idea crept into my head that the trouble with wedding kits is that they have to be neutral in order to have broad appeal, because, naturally, not everyone has, say, a royal blue wedding.  I started to wonder whether I could create this kit in a way that I could make it work for any palette, for any bride.  And I started recoloring things.  It worked!  In pink, in amethyst and then in champagne.

I decided the best way to handle the different colors was to offer each set of colored elements and papers as an add on minikit for Ashton’s Romance.  This way you can choose the kit that best matches your palette, use the neutral elements from Ashton’s Romance and have a whole new kit.  Each add on is available at half price when it is purchased at the same time as Ashton’s Romance, just $2 more to have the kit in the right color for you.







But I still hadn’t solved the problem of not being able to match every. single. wedding.
Until!  I thought …. what if I color it to order?  Sure, it will take a bit more time and I’ll have to ask a higher price for that, but I know that I for one would be willing to pay more for a kit that was made from my swatch and matched my palette exactly.  What a perfect solution!  I am thrilled to be able to offer Personal Romance – a unique kit colored to your wedding swatch and designed to perfectly compliment your day.  It can be used for programs, invites, save the dates, not to mention scrapping the big day itself.



Allow me to share a few of the gorgeous pages that were made with the various versions of this kit by the talented artists on my team, at DST and at 9th & Bloom.

This one was made by Josette. Its meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!  So of course I have to feature it first. I will print this and hang it on my wall.  I love it that much.  Thank you, thank you my talented friend!



And look at these beauties (just a small sample, since this post is already so long.  Check out my facebook page for the full album.)





And because this whole thing started with Amanda, she is offering a coordinated set of elegant templates in her store.  Stunning, aren’t they?



I admit that I got a little carried away with this kit and concept and I love the way it came together.  My CT got carried away right along with me and several of them offered to make freebies to go along with it.  Rather than offer them all here, we’ve put together the first ever By Becca blog train in order to get them to you.

Every single one of the freebies on this blog train is being offered as a direct download because 4 shared has been nothing but trouble lately and we don’t want to deal with it.  Please remember to thank the girls along the way, ok?

I am your first stop and for my freebie I’m offering one of Amanda’s gorgeous templates.


Download here.

From here you are off to visit Jenn – she has a beautiful cluster for you on her blog HERE.

If you get lost anywhere along the way, come back to my blog.  Here is the full list:
Becca -- http://blog.bybeccadesigns.com 
Jenn -- http://jenn33199.blogspot.com/ 
Nancy -- http://nancy-lilyspad.blogspot.com/
Holly -- http://www.hollyanissa.com/
Amanda -- http://photocowgirl.blogspot.com
Biancka -- http://biancka.blogspot.com
We are trying to have all of the posts up by 9 am EST but we are posting from several different time zones, so please be patient if one of these blogs is missing its freebie.
Thank you for reading today!