Gorgeous Classic Wedding

Have a look at this gorgeous and classic wedding of Belinda & Michael. The bride wanted her wedding to be a classic one, with lots of flowers, green and candles. If you are looking for an elegant and classic wedding arrangement, you can definitely take some amazing ideas from here. Most of the decors from this wedding can be recreated easily in a budget. Belinda & Michael’s wedding photographs can surely hit all the crafty people with lots and lots of fun and classic craft ideas.

White candles in clear glass candle holders are very classic and we are loving these! You can use left over clear glass vases, jars and glasses to recreate this. add your own twist for a variation.

Face photo props are very popular these days. You can create, customize your own face photo props, print them out, cut them nicely and done! Face photo props can bring life and fun to any event! So, never forget to keep them in your wedding list.

Don’t these standing letter decors look stunning? Another classic piece which can be DIY’ed! You can customize your own letter style by using cardboard and covering the outer side with duct tape do prevent leakage. Mix 60:40 white cement and sand with enough water (not too thin nor too thick), pour the mixture into the mould, wait for 24 hours and you will have a lovely piece of standing letter, handmade with love! If you want a little touch of gold, just sprinkle the letters with golden dust or use a toothbrush to spray golden paint on them!

Flowers! White roses are a must for a classic and elegant wedding. In case you’re a crazy crafter and want to keep a wedding bouquet forever, you can make your own white roses from craft tissue paper or crepe paper.

Okay, enough with all the craftiness, let’s have a look at some of the photographs of this classic wedding

There are a lot of stories out there these days about AI use in the crafting space for everything from answering technique questions to writing patterns.

And there’s a lot of content about how to spot AI patterns, or even just photos on the Internet that people are claiming to have made but are clearly AI generated.

As the models get better, though, it can be harder to tell. Gone (mostly) are the days of AI sewing patterns with models who have too many fingers, but one thing it’s still hard for AI to replicate is individual stitches.

You’ll see this in knitting, crochet and cross stitch, where a project might look good from a distance but if you zoom in you’ll see there aren’t individual stitches, or they don’t look the way real stitches would look.

That’s part of the rationale behind a change at r/CrossStitch, the largest cross stitch community on Reddit, which now requires people to show a close up of their finished projects (lots of people seem to be showing off the backs, too) to prove their projects aren’t AI.

Lord Libidan reported on this news and I agree with them that I’m not sure why people in an online forum would be sharing AI “finished objects” when it’s a venue where you can’t sell patterns. But I understand their desire to keep the forum free of AI images. I wish Etsy had such a requirement so that people selling patterns had to prove they’d actually stitched them (though there are plenty of patterns that just show a chart and not a finished item, AI or not.)

Lord Libidan probably has a different perspective because he’s seen people selling kits made from an AI version of a free cross stitch pattern of his. Which is another layer.

I have my own feelings about AI and crafting but I just think it’s really interesting both the things people will do with AI without saying it’s AI and the lengths other people will go to in order to prove something is or isn’t AI. Or even calling something AI just because it’s really detailed and looks good? What times we live in.

[Photo via Lord Libidan, closeup of an image made by Google Gemini’s Nano Banana]

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