When my friend Rose got married this year, we really wanted to give her something special on her hen do. What’s quite tricky about hen do’s, and weddings in general, is to not let it be about buying stuff. With wedding Pinterest boards a plenty, it can be tempting to get caught up in buying tasteful unique items when something personal and handmade could be much more memorable. The solution – to put together a scrapbook made by the hen party. Each person was asked to add something to the book and contributions included; cake recipes, photos, notecards with personal messages and even a  recipe for the perfect marriage. One benefit of being in charge of collating the pages together was I got to see all the different ideas and use this for inspiration for my own contribution. So here’s what I entered:

Comic strip

I put together a comic strip of moments that I remember of the couple when they were dating at University. I’m not the best drawer so they were really simple strips and I used an old map as backing.

 

Bingo card

I put together a wedding bingo card for events that I predicted would happen at the wedding. Six of these things really did happen at the wedding after-all.

Penguins-in-love cross stitch

This started out as a cross stitch to place on the front of the scrapbook but things went wrong when I got a little too clever with my colour choices. I originally planned to have the penguins as silhouettes, in purple. When no one in my craft group could identify them as penguins, I had to go back to the beginning and didn’t have time to make it for the scrapbook. Instead I put it in this frame and gave it as a wedding gift.