#40 Mini Pinwheels

Pinwheels are so cute! I'm toying with the idea of using these as cupcake toppers for the wedding, but Will's on the fence about pinwheels. That's okay, I just wanted to make something cute!

I used the same craft paper that I had for the escort cards again. They sure are getting some mileage! I coloured in the whites after doing a few plain, and I think they look better two-toned, just I'm horrible and colouring evenly. :S Aaand the tape is showing where I stuck the edges and hearts together. I'll use glue next time, but glue is messy too.

Picspam time!

And I've made about 5 total.

#39 Escort Cards

This project is totally premature, haha. But I just couldn't resist! I got the idea from Martha Stewart's wedding crafts section, so I'll be making a stand for these babies later on...but for now it's just the cards. :)

I used some left over card stock paper from the bridesmaids invites project, and created mini flags as escort cards! The pack actually had a lot of colours that go with our theme. Well, the pink is in place of our red for this but the rest is exactly how I wanted it. I'll make more for more people as I think of them.

I just made little cut outs in Word, and used a paper cutter to slice them up. Everything's been glued together.

Onto the pictures!

The flags pre-tooth picks.

All done!

And a close-up.

Overall, I really like how they turned out. Not much fixing to be done, but I still consider these in "mock-up" phase.

I'll be making the stand for the flags later, with a Styrofoam base!

#34 Tissue Paper Flowers

More of the wedding craft kick!

I found this tutorial on crepe paper flowers, and fell in love. I eagerly set out to find this magical crepe paper...but the internet disappointed me. :( The sellers of crepe paper on the internet fall into 1 of 3 categories (if not all of the above) - 1) Only ship to the USA; 2) Only ship to schools or other mass users of crepe paper (ie craft stores...in the states...); or 3) Were more than I wanted to spend on paper (although beautiful). I did try some local craft stores, but paper sections are limited to scrapbooking supplies only in most places.

I improvised and tried it out with common gift wrapping tissue paper instead. It doesn't have the same realistic look, but I'm still quite happy with them. Onto the pictures!

And some detail


I want to make this for centerpieces at each table, along with maybe something else decorative (cross-stitch sayings? fancy table numbers?). I've made about 20 so far, but I calculated how many my supplies of tissue paper colours will make and it's up to three hundred flowers! That equals 16 flowers a table if we were to have 20 tables (5 people at each). I might want to make more for each, but that's the minimum to aim for at least. It'd be fun to get the BMs in on it and make flowery crafts together!

#33 Mini Wedding Sampler!

Long time no post! Or completed project for that matter. :S I'm still working a lot on the pokemon pattern, planning wedding junk (and crafts!), and many more "in limbo" projects.

On the topic of wedding crafts, I've been brainstorming a lot of ideas for it because we've got over a year till the date. Just some of the diy parts include the ring pillow, paper flowers for centerpieces, invites, bunting, etc.

When I found this royal wedding sampler for Kate & William's nuptials, I just had to make it for myself!

Tadaaaa!

I used our theme colours, and also substituted the crown for something more appropriate to us - a Mario mushroom! I think I want to frame it and use it as a decoration at the table we'll have for guest book signing, or maybe make my own guest book and make it the cover? Another idea I had for it was to use the best picture of it as possible and make it into our RSVP cards to mail with the invites. There's a few things online where you can make your own postcards like on moo, or heck even Wal-mart.

I'm having a lot of fun planning out decorations and DIY projects for this shindig. Will thinks I'm getting a little ahead of myself for it, but hey, it may actually take that long to get everything done!

#16 Wedding Sampler

My friend Colleen got married this past friday, and is having a small wedding dinner to celebrate this coming weekend, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a special gift for her.

I decided to go with making a sweet embroidery wall hanging for them, even though they said no gifts, lol. How can I not do something?! So the embroidery part is finished, but I plan on making a fabric "frame" then have a solid fabric backing for it, with a ribbon to hang it up. I have uh...2 days to finish it before we head on the ferry over to Victoria. Oooh crap. Posting it now because the most time consuming part is done!

Picspam:

Detail shot of the french knot flower bouquet. I looove how these turned out. <3

Detail shot of the lettering and wedding rings. I just used my own handwriting as a template for it.

And the full image! It's about 6"x7.5", and took me about 3 days to finish completely. I just wanted to throw in as much detail as possible, haha. The lazy dazy stitches gave me a lot of trouble, urhghg.

Now to get to work on the border!

#14 Bridesmaid Invites

Sooo I've had a really good few weeks here, and working on a ton of crafts! BIG NEWS! My boyfriend proposed! We're getting hitched. :D Will's back in school and I have more time to do crafty things since I just work now. The dream is to do a handmade wedding, but I know it can't be completely handmade *sadface*. We plan on doing it in the north, in Terrace, as that's where Will is from (Kitimat is a short drive away) and really most of the people we want to invite live there or near there. Plus it would be cheaper to do it there hopefully, unless they overcharge because there is no competition. Also slightly worried about what kind of supplies/vendors would be there and how good they will be... I want to do as much creating down here as possible, lol. Either way, it's gonna be a long engagement so we can afford it.

Anywho! I was giddy and made cute little invites for the ladies I want to be my bridesmaids. I saw a tutorial on how to make crossword invites which I figured would be perfect! Pics spam!

So much fun to make! I used: double sided tape, MS word, a papercutter, black pen, and cute card paper. <3

Also for good measure here's a shot of my ring, hehe.