Props!

Started working on the props for Angela and Jon's photo booth...I googled some photo booth printables and found this great site and basically cut them out, traced them on to foam and attached sticks

A few of the mouths I liked so I just glued them to the foam to make them sturdy. All the products I used were bought from AC Moore. I bought foam to make some and they had really cool wood masks too that you paint yourself. This I thought would be really fun. I bought 2 owls (me and Angela's thing) and a cat and dog...the cat and dog didn't turn out too well but the owls are pretty cute. The one I tried to paint silimar to here wedding colors (which doesn't show up that well in the picture) and the other is kind of purple...somehow mixing a brown and tan color got me purple, I dunno...but here are the owls...

I will not show you the dog and cat (they are just not pretty...nope) I think I will try to redo them or just get rid of them all together. I'm also going to make chalkboard signs so people can write whatever they want...I'll show more when I have more to show :)

Photo Booth

I am too excited to not share this. Angela is getting married in under 90 days and I'm trying to give her a great wedding gift. She really wants a photo booth but they are not priced well for a budget friendly wedding...so I'm hoping I can come up with a solution. I've been searching the web and Pinterest to find great ways to put together our own photo booth. I have only come up with this idea last night and today I found some fabric at an antique shop for a steal...the whole roll, although I haven't measured it fully but it will be plenty long enough, was only $3!!!!! I could not pass it up! It's great and I can't wait! Here's the fabric...it's probably the thriftiest find I've ever found :P


I'm also planning on making great props like these:


I can't wait to share more with you!

Card Holder

Well I finally made the card holder for my sister-in-laws wedding. It's only 3 weeks away!!!!! I'm so excited for her. So I got the suitcase from a thrift store. I cut out the letters with green cardstock using the Plantin School font from Cricut then sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Olive Vine. I had the lace runner that I picked up at a yard sale last year for FREE! (gotta love that!) and the brown lace I bought from a thrift store for only 10 cents. The flowers are fairytale roses and I just attached them using glue dots. In fact the letters are attached using glues dots (for now anyways...just wanted to make sure she liked it before anything was permanently affixed to it). I think it turned out great…hope you like it too!


Here is the inspiration picture:

This is the one I created:

T-shirt bag

So I was just on Pinterest and found this T-shirt remake into a bag...super easy and no sewing needed. I would tell you how to make it but this tutorial is super easy and you should definately check it out. Here's what I made on my first try!

Filler

So I went looking for filler for in the baskets that we are making for my sister-in-laws bridal shower. I couldn't believe the prices. They want $3 or $4 per bag and it'll only fill one basket and we are making 6....NO WAY! I'm totally not paying that price. Then I walked in to Michael's and yes they wanted $3.99/bag, yuck! So I went on with my shopping (had to pick up a gift card for a co-worker's 50th b-day) and noticed the single sheets of scrapbook paper/cardstock was on sale 6 for $1....LIGHT BULB TURNS ON....why don't I just pick out colors similar to her wedding colors and take the cardstock home and shred it in my paper shredder??? So that's what I did. I bought $6 worth and it's enough to fill each basket at $1 a piece....I'm so thirfty and crafty that sometimes I scare myself ;)

Crafting a Wedding

So as it turns out, life with a new baby leaves just about zero time for crafts. But I've managed to sneak some time in to get things made for my sister-in-laws wedding. I had to make wine glass charms for the bridal shower. I ordered both the charms and the charm rings from people off Etsy.com, then I just used beads I had at home. And My friend, Angela, her mom and I went thrift store shopping to find wine glasses. I think they turned out really nice. All the beading is different and I picked out 3 different charms (a ring in a box, a dress and an envelope with a heart coming out). Here's what they look like:






Another task I took on was creating flowers for our hair that would match our dresses. Her wedding colors are camo and fern green. Our dress (thank goodness) are the fern green. So with a little help from Pinterest.com, my friend, Angela had pinned and flower pillow how-to from MarthaStewart.com which showed how to make flowers from satin...very easy...but I've never attempted anything like this before. So when we bought our dresses we also bought the fabric sample swatches that I used to make the flowers. I bought some shiny antique, gold tulle from JoAnn fabrics and with alittle cutting and sewing I had this:



My next task will be finishing the card box for the wedding...my inspiration?


You'll have to wait until next time to see how it turned out :)

Crafty Baby Maker

My friend, Angela, sent me this pic! It's funny beacuse I've actually said this...LOL