A twist on the Rehearsal Bouquet

Most wedding rehearsal ribbon bouquets look a lot like this.

For Stacey's I decided to put a twist on it and use the actual ribbons to make rosettes.

 So it came out looking like this...

Now the bride can pop them off the plate and glue them to a picture frame or a wreath.

Its was really easy to do.  She had oodles of wired ribbon so I pulled on the wiring on one side, gathered the ribbon and rolled it using hot glue to keep it all together.

Easy Peasy!

Traced Font Signage

Here is a little teaser to one of the Projects I have been working on.

This is a grouping of Signs for Stacey's Wedding.  They were lots of fun to do and I took a much more formal approach to painting them which demanded lots of patience!

They are not necessarily difficult to do yourself  But they take a supper steady hand and lots of time.  This one I definitely could not do in front of the TV.  It required my full attention!!

I printed out the words onto paper in the fonts we wanted.

I used Chevalier Becker Street and Engravers MT.

I traced them onto graphite paper over the sign bases.  This is the first time I have ever used graphite paper and it was soooo easy!  I had considered using my Silhouette to make stencils but I thought in this case this was easier.

This is a snippet from the wedding invite which was the inspiration for the Chevalier font.

After tracing with the graphite paper it looks a little messy but this is where that steady hand and a good paintbrush come in.  I used a small flat angled brush to do all of the lettering.

Looks pretty good!

This is a little free hand arrow I did. 

The end!  I cannot wait to show you the end results.  Better than I thought, truth be told!  You'll have to wait till after the wedding this weekend to see how everything turned out:)

Stacey's Wedding Shower

Ok here are the pics from Stacey's shower:)  It was lovely and we had a great time... I will post tutorials in the next couple of days.  Enjoy!

These are the centerpieces I had scattered all through the house while I was assembling them.  Birdcages and my mothers old watering can were covered in handmade flowers made out of ...you name it and it's made out of it!  Cupcake liners, scrap paper, doilies, book pages,scrap fabric, coffee filters, etc.

 I decoupaged a bunch of eggs with some scrap paper

Here it all is set up at the party.

we clustered the cages and watering can with cloches, birds nests and cloches.

We put two canopys together and put poms in the tops. 

 Each chair got its own flower and the guest we welcome to take their flower home with them!

We set up a different seating area under the oak tree to open presents

My mom made this quirky tree out of a tomato cage and grapevine and added lights and butterflies.

 Even the bunny got dressed for the occasion!

Stacey is blessed with great friends .  Her very good friend Janie is her wedding photographer and she took a bunch of fancy pics!!  I can't wait for her to send those to me so I can post them!

Oh lets not forget the food!  Yum!

Party Details:

Linens- Connie Duglin

Decor- Salty Sisters

Sneaky Peak

I know I have not been posting but I promise after this weekend there are going to be plenty of posts to make up for my absence.  The wedding shower I am throwing will finally be this weekend and since I want it to be a surprise, and my wonderful bestie is a faithful follower of this blog... I don't want to spoil it!

But here are some teasers... I just cant help myself!

I bought these straws from Hey YoYo and added little ribbon flags to them:)

These are the junk paper rosettes I have made.  I will be posting a tutorial on these.  They are made of various materials.  White coffee filters, tea stained coffee filters, pink dyed coffee filters, white paper doilies, cupcake liners, book pages, tulle circles and scrapbook paper.

I made a HUGE mess all over the kitchen counter last night finishing up 15 of these and 40 other fabric and paper flowers.  There will be lots of paper and fabric flower tutorials to come!

Can't wait to show you the final product!!!

Stacey's Bachelorette Party

What a great weekend we all had at the beach to celebrate my friend Stacey getting married.  I unfortunately had entirely too many cocktails to take many pictures... but the weather on the beach was beautiful!  Here are a few of the things I made for the big night out!

Her bachelorette veil!

The Sash

The garter

Beach flip flops

Party favor cups!

The entire group!

Me and Stacey:)

I will be adding bachelorette veils to my Etsy Shop soon!!! Yay!!

Next project...The bridal shower!!

100th post and Stacey's Bachelorette Party Sneak Peak

Whoo Hoo this is my 100th post!!

Just wanted to give y'all a sneak peak of one of the goodies I made for Stacey's Bachelorette Party.  I can't wait to share the rest of the goodies but I don't want to spoil the surprise:)  (She has already seen these)

This is also my first project using the Silhouette machine.  I am still figuring it out but these turned out well!

This is a beach weekend so the party favors are drink cups to take our cocktails to the pool:)  

Wedding Shower Invitations

My bestie is getting married in April and we are doing all kinds of fun stuff leading up to her wedding. I am working on loads of things but I can't post them until after she gets to see them so my posts will be delayed.  I have made some fun stuff for her bachelorette party this weekend:)  So I will post about that next week.  

I am throwing her a shower and wanted to have really fun invitations without breaking the bank.  Her colors are yellow and gray with splashes of fuchsia.  (I am really excited that us bridesmaids get to wear fuchsia shoes!)  Anyway, the shower is a garden party theme and will have tons of hand made stuff so I wanted the invite to reflect that. 30 invitations cost about $25 to make:)

First I started with this at home printable wedding invitation kit ($20 on clearance at Michaels)

I grabbed a couple sheets of Scrapbook paper from my stash.

And  cut out all the circles and cut small circular shapes from the stripe paper.

Then I crinkled the circles, then used glue dots to adhere them to the invite in clusters

Here's a pic of about half of the ones I had done

I then took the "RSVP" Cards which I printed as the registry card and tied them with the bow that came in the  package.

Bright and colorful alluding to the handmade craftiness that is to come!!

Anthropologie's BHLDN Sneak Peek!

Glamor Released some images of the dresses from BHLDN.  Check Out the wedding dresses HERE

And for the wedding Party go HERE