Shadow Box

I've been wanting to make a shadow box of all the important wedding items that I didn't want to just put away in a box never to be seen again.  So, with a Michael's 50% off coupon, I got the frame and finally went to work!  Here's what's inside the shadow box:

save the date

wedding invitation

cocktail napkin

cake topper

fabric swatch from table runners

Orrin's boutineere

2 yellow flowers from my  bouquet

lace gloves I wore

lace from my mom's wedding veil (which was around my bouquet)

the playing card Orrin used to ask me to marry him

the bible verse that my cousin, Robyn, read for our ceremony

I love the final product!!!

Christmas Craft!

My extremely talented friend, Becky check out her site, had a craft night and I've been wanting to make a wreath.  I just glued last years ornaments on a styrofoam wreath...

For more detailed instructions, here's the blog I found it on http://matt-and-becky.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-days-of-christmas-crafts-day-5.html

Some random last minute things I've been working on...

 To hang on the hotel door knobs

 To display our family wedding pics...still working on this one

What do you think?? :)

Pin wheels

DIY pinwheels.  Not sure where I'm going to use them but they're cute :)

I finally got working on the shutters that my Uncle Mike's gf gave me...here one is before:

We have 8 total so we'll prob be using them to either hang some family wedding pics on and/or to use as a seating chart for people, we will see..

A few frames I got cheap from goodwill, one was black before the purple and one was white..

 Me ready to paint (and cousin Chelsea's bf, Jessi, behind me)

 Finished purple chalkboard for the menu

Decoupage

This is my new favorite thing.  My soon to be amazing SIL, Melanie, told me about decoupaging awhile ago and I had never heard or seen of it.  Well, it's pretty cool.  Basically, you cut out pictures; you glue the pictures onto an object; and then cover the object and pictures with a few coats of glue/decoupage medium to protect it. Check out this website if you want to see how many projects you can really do and all you need is the glue, Mod Podge.

http://www.modpodgerocksblog.com/

We had a bunch of coasters laying around from when O's dad was redoing the tile in their house so I decided to test it out.  I just cut out my favorite pieces of scrapbook paper to fit the tile and started glueing away...

Melanie & Craig just moved into their new place so I made them a little housewarming present

 Plain tile

 Different scrapbook pages with a few layers of mod podge

Finished product!  I also added a protective water sealant on top of the coasters so cold drinks don't bleed through the paper.

Some signage I made

Bri is letting us borrow her card box & I dressed it up a little

The first thing the guests will see is the gift/card table so I made a welcome banner to match the card box letters

We had so many left over fabric circles from craft day I got little 2" styrofoam balls & made the flower balls to save money on real flowers

 Rough draft of Mr & Mrs signs to hang on the back of our chairs at the reception

What do you think?

Bunting

I know this is nothing new to the wedding industry but I am officially a fan of bunting!  Look at these cute pics:

 www.weddingbee.com

 http://www.ruffledblog.com/

 http://www.stylemepretty.com/

 http://www.weddingbee.com/

 http://www.wedfully.com/

I had to try one out :)  Got the wooden letters and painted them red.  Cut some burlap into triangles and hot glue-gunned (sp?) to some twine.  I still have to add red hearts on the ends of the burlap and I think we'll use it for our engagement pics!



Finished putting the pink & white felt hearts on the paper gray straws (for the champagne cocktails) 

Inspiration found here

Decoupage

Decoupaging is my new favorite thing!  This project is not wedding related but whatev.  Since O & I decided not to get eachother gifts for our 4 years of dating anniversary (1-pretty much all our $ goes to the wedding & 2-we're gonna have a new anniversary), I thought I'd make him something.  Sometimes I feel bad because our house is a little girly, not too bad, but it is definitely more me than him. 

I had this tray I got from Marshall's a while back for $4 in the bathroom with candles, etc on top and decided to make it a remote control holder for O (we always have 3 remotes on the coffee table scattered about & it drives me crazy) haha, so maybe this is for me, too :) 

The before:

 I cut out clippings of his favorite baseball player and used Mod Podge to glue them down and then added more coats to the top

 This was my first attempt at decoupaging, I think I need to get a roller of some sort to smooth out the wrinkles

 The after:

 So there you have it, we have a non-girly thing in our house...it's still cute though, huh? :)

He loved it!

DIY Cake Topper

I got this wood letter "K" at Michael's for $2

 Painted it pink

 Added a little bling (also from Michae'ls-$2)

 Covered the thing in bling

Ta-da!  $4 cake topper, I love it.  I saw one that looks just like this on The Knot's shop, guess how much....$168!  Seriously?

Headbands for Imagrace :)

Ok, this isn't wedding related, but too cute not to show you peeps!  Look at these 2 headbands I made for Imagrace:

Started out with these 2 headbands

A few flowers from Michael's...

Pink one from 3 different flowers and the scrapbook flower in the center :)

This one's my fav...but the flower is probably the size of her head :)

Ta-da!

Imagrace sporting the pink one, she loves it!

Awwww, isn't she a cutie?!