Canvas little bags as wedding favors

We keep looking at wedding favors in little bags. Today we are showing a project with canvas bags —which you can find pretty easily in notions stores.

Materials
•    Canvas little bags
•    Thick mesh tape
•    Seals with hearts on squares
•    Glue
•    Scissors

 

Instructions

1. Cut a square from the mesh tape

2. Glue the seal to the mesh tape, and then the mesh tape over the canvas bag (you can check how to make the seals in our May 15, 2009 article).

3. The bags can be filled with candied almonds, candies or chocolates. We recommend you to check our September 6, 2009 article).

  

How to make a fan as wedding favor

In many occasions, weddings take place in gardens or warm places where a fan can be pretty convenient to cool the guests.

I’m sharing with you an idea I saw in Anna Griffin’s website, where they show this fan that you can make pretty easily —and with a very low cost, too.

 

What you need is a rigid cardboard of any color, which will be the fan’s body. You will also need some paper with the names of the bride and groom and the wedding’s date printed on it. Then glue this paper on the cardboard. Finally, you will need a tongue depressor or a wooden stick, which you can get easily on any stationery or notions shop. For the finishing touch, use a little bow made with a ribbon.

You should try to make your own fans —you will find out that they look really cute.

 Source: Anna Griffin 

  

Photo: La Reyna de Mesones

 

Cards to designate seats for the wedding’s guests

 

 

At the wedding’s reception, it is very practical to have the seats already designated with personalized cards featuring the guests’ names. This time we are showing a fabulous idea for cards in different shapes which, after a little cut on them, you can put at the edge of the glass. You only have to draw your desired shape, mirror it on the paper, cut it, fold it, do a little cut in the middle to put it in the glass’ base, and finally decorate and personalize them.

 

  

Source: A touch of bliss

Gaby Beltrán and her wedding-favors courses

Gaby Beltrán is a famous woman who owns a business where she teaches all the handicraft techniques to make wedding favors.

At her website, you will find the hours of the courses she gives in Mexico City —and at her website you will also find some courses sold in CD format.

Best of all, she has all the raw materials to make any kind of handicrafts you can possibly imagine.

Her website has a bit of an old-fashioned style. But what interests you is the information.

 

  

  

  

 Source: Gaby Beltran

Wedding invitations on wine bottles

At My Personal Artist website, we find several designs of wedding invitations in bottles.
Beach bottle

 

Beach bottle

  

Bottle with sandals  

  

Vineyard bottle

Source: My personal artist

Wedding memento boxes

In their website, the Argentina-based Memory Boxes firm is devoted to making theme boxes, and they have these boxes for the bride and groom to keep their wedding memento. I thought this was a pretty cute idea.

 

  

  

Source: Memory Boxes

Stop motion wedding invitation

Stop motion is a video technique that, through a series of photos, gives a sense of motion. Today we are showing Corey and Rachel’s wedding video —they got married on June 12, 2009. Have fun watching it —it is truly creative.



Source: Corey Rachel

Wedding invitations on cans

Some countries have the custom of tying cans on the newlyweds’ car, thus announcing to everyone that they are newlyweds.
This time we are showing an invitation done by the Greek designer Chris Travazas, who came with the idea of using the cans as wedding invitations —and he added a manual to put those same cans in the newlyweds’ car.

 

 

 

Source: Lovely Package

How to make flying butterflies?

Since we published our post and video on April 30, 2009, about the flying butterflies, many people has been asking how to make those flying butterflies. For a long time, we searched for ways of making those butterflies, and a little while ago one of our readers sent us this pdf explaining how to make them.

But if you find it too complicated or you aren’t too skilled in handicrafts, you also have the option to buy them at detallesjade.com

Sources: Kiddyhub.com and detallesjade.com

How to make faux sealing wax seals with silicone

Today we are providing a video to show you how to make faux sealing wax seals with silicone and the same metal seals used to make real sealing wax seals. The faux sealing wax silicone has the advantage of being easier to use than regular silicone, since you need a little silicone gun, the same kind used in handicrafts, to melt it.

We provide you some tips that may be useful to make your wedding invitations in an easy manner.

1. You can make the seals separately and then glue them on the wedding invitations with white glue. You can make the seals on a glass surface or a Teflon tray as the ones used to bake cookies or pizza.
2. When you put the silicone on the surface, allow 20 seconds before putting the metal seal. This will keep you from smearing it or the silicone from sticking onto the seal.
3. Before you put the metal seal on the silicone, cool it with a cup of water and ice to keep it from being hot.
4. When you put the seal on the silicone, allow one minute letting the silicone cool —then you can easily remove the seal.
5. Before you use your bars of faux sealing wax silicone, use the transparent silicone bars to practice, since those are cheaper.
6. Use a silicone gun for each color; otherwise, your seals may have spots in other colors.

You will find silicone seals and the faux sealing wax silicone in our online store at detallesjade.com