Bath Salts Wedding Favor
From the magazine, Simply Creative Weddings 2003, “Surprise guests with a beautiful and practical gift that commemorates your special day.”
(Ed Note: This may be more appropriate for a bridal shower instead of a wedding favor.)
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Here’s a fun project that would make beautiful centerpieces: Paper Lanterns.
These, courtesy of Better Homes & Gardens, can be made with any sturdy paper (scrapbook papers, cardstocks, and even a heavy vellum) to match your decor.
Source Better Homes & Gardens (beware of pop-up ads)
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Leafy & Luscious Chocolate Cake
Michael’s offers instructions for making this beautiful chocolate buttercream & fondant cake. This would be beautiful for a Fall wedding, wouldn’t it?
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Tiered Centerpiece
Looking for an interesting way to present flower arrangements? Country Sampler Magazine features a creative idea using cake stands and bowls stacked together. This would be a great way to use super-cheap eBay or yard sale finds.
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DIY Tulle Circles
If you’re wrapping favors or gifts in circles of tulle, it may be cheaper to cut your own circles out of sheets of tulle. WedCraft.Com has a nice tutorial on how to snip flawless tulle rounds.
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Welcome baskets really are a great treat for your out-of-towners and they don’t have to be extravagant or expensive. Some things that are useful and universally appreciated by your guests:
Instead of a basket, you could put these into a simple gift bag, tie it with ribbon, and enclose a personal note of welcome.
Simple. Easy. Useful. Gotta love that!
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This query came in from one of our readers. We’re delighted to have an easy solution for her!
Q: I”m hoping you can help! I’m using eyelets and brads to attach my invitation pieces together. The problem is that I need colors that match my invitations and I can’t find any. I tried painting one with acrylic paints and that didn”t work. The paint just fell off when I was attaching the pieces. Any ideas?
A: Kudos to you for being so crafty! The paint idea is still a good one. You may want to try a spray paint or an enamel paint. Some companies make an enamel medium (Plaid comes to mind) that you can mix with acrylics to make an enamel-like paint. This may adhere better to the metal eyelets and brads.My other suggestion is to use rubber stamping embossing powders. This is simple and works great! I’ve tried this with brads, but not eyelets, though I suppose it will work just as well. You’ll need embossing powder of your color choice, a heat gun, and a pair of long-nosed tweazers to hold the brad while you’re heating it.
Step 1: Open your jar of embossing powder.
Step 2: Clamp the stem of your brad/eyelet in your tweazers.
Step 3: Heat the top of your brad/eyelet under your embossing gun for 5 - 10 seconds.
Step 4: Dip the brad/eyelet into the embossing powder while it’s screamin’ hot. Pull out immediately.
Voila! The embossing powder should immediately melt on the brad. If not, give it a quick blast from your heat gun.
For eyelets, you may want to use a shallow container or just a piece of paper to put your embossing powder on. This will help keep the color just on the rim of the eyelet and not coat the whole thing.
Good Luck!
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From one of our readers:
Q: How do I glue vellum to my invitation without big puddles of glue showing through?
A: You have a few options for attaching vellum to cardstock.1. Spray photo mount adhesive (we love the 3M brand) - Spray a thin layer (you can use a piece of scrap paper to mask off the areas you don’t want to adhere) and simply press to your cardstock. Dries clear and very quickly. Small cans of adhesive around usually around $5.00.
2. Vellum tape - Relatively new to the market, vellum tape is a super-translucent tape that blends into most vellums. Scotch brand is widely available at craft stores and is usually around $5.00 for a roll.
3. The other option is to not use glue or tape at all. How about trying any of the multitudes of eyelets and brads that are so popular? Or, try punching two small holes in your project and weave a small ribbon through and tie a bow?
From one of my readers:
Q: I love the way vellum looks but haven’t had much success in making practice invitations with my printer.
A: Vellum is a sturdy, translucent paper with a wax-like coating that is typically used as overlays for invitations. It has a smooth, slick surface which can make it difficult to print or stamp upon. Inkjets have problems with vellum because the wet inks have a hard time adhering to the smooth surface of the paper. The same goes for rubberstamping inks. There aren”t enough rough fibers for the ink to grip and soak in to, so it smears.Don’t fret, though, there are vellums on the market specifically made for inkjet pritners. Epson and Stampin’ Up make good ones that are likely compatible with all injkets.
If you are unable to find inkjet compatible vellums or want to use a colored vellum, you may be able to do so with a little tweaking of your printer’s settings.
* Go into your printer set-up and adjust it to the transparency setting. This will put the least amount of ink onto the vellum.
* Go into page set-up in your word processing program and set the margin 1″ from the top of the page. This will allow the printer time to get a ÃholdÓ on the vellum and reduces smearing.
* Select “economy”, “draft” or “speed” print mode (depending on the specific machine). This will lay down the least amount of ink possible, making it harder for the ink to smear.
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Available at your favorite craft stores and booksellers.
