Wedding DIY-Engagement Photo Props

Riley and I are having our engagement photos taken soon so I decided to make a few props.

This one is made out of burlap. I painted the letters using a stencil I created using my Cricut. I attached the triangles together using a thin white ribbon and hot glue.

This banner was made using burlap too. Again, I painted our wedding date on using stencils I created using my Cricut. Everything is attached using hot glue.

Wedding DIY-Tears of Joy Packets

I'm not sure if our wedding will be emotional or not, but I found this idea on a wedding blog and just had to try it out for myself.

I ordered 100 small glassine envelopes from ebay. I folded up a tissue and placed it inside. A silver ribbon was attached using rolling double-sided tape to keep the flap tucked under.
I ordered 250 "free" business cards from VistaPrint. I only had to pay for shipping. The cards read "Tears of Love, Tears of Laughter, Tears of Happily Ever After." The cards also have our names and wedding date on them. The cards got attached to the front of the envelopes.

I haven't decided where I am going to put these yet. They will either be placed in the pews or in the back of church with the programs.
Even if nobody but me sheds a tear, they were fun, cheap, and easy to make.

Wedding DIY-Glitter Shoes

I would love to wear some wicked hot heels on my wedding day.

BUT, I have been told that I am allowed no heel of any kind.

Riley and I are about the same height (technically I think I am taller, but he won't admit it) and so he has asked that I wear the flattest shoe I can find.

I found these ballet flats on sale at target.

I used Martha Stewart glitter and Modge Podge to glitter up my shoes.

I think they are great for the wedding because red is one of my colors and I'm a Kansas girl so I get a little of the Wizard of Oz feel going on too :)

Wedding DIY-Tealights

This was one of those ideas that sounds great until you start actually doing it.

I plan on using a bunch of little tealights to place around the centerpieces at our wedding reception. I thought it would be really cute to use vinyl to add words to them.

I bought a bunch of tealights from Bath & Body Works when they were on sale. They burn for 3.5 hours, which is longer than any others I could find.

Then using my Cricut, I cut out words using black vinyl and wedded out all the extra. The cutting and the weeding took FOREVER! I had to take out the middle of the Es, Os, and As, which doesn't seem like all that much work, but when they are so tiny-its very time consuming.

I used Cricut Transfer Tape to transfer the vinyl to the tealights.

It was a very simple project and I'm happy with the end result.

They read: Happiness, Love, Joy, Bliss, Cherish, Forever.

However, it took WAY more time than I'm willing to admit. It's really kind of embarassing how long these little thing took.

I'll admit though, these 150 tealights kicked my butt!

Hello Again

I haven't posted in forever..... things have been very busy for me.

I switched teaching jobs last spring and because of this, I had very little time to craft and blog about it.

Once things slowed down a little, I really didn't have any inspiration or ideas about stuff to create. Also since I'm living with my parents, I don't have tons of space.

However, about a week ago Riley proposed!!!! We have set a date for June 2013, which gives us a year and a half to plan. I plan to do lots of DIY projects for our wedding. I probably won't be back into posting as often as I once did, but I do plan to post wedding projects.

:)

Thanksgiving Cake Pops

My 4th of July Cake Pops went over well so I decided to make some pumpkin ones to take to Riley's family's Thanksgiving.

I was a little rushed and had some issues with melting the chocolate, so they aren't perfect by any means.

I used green Mike & Ike's for the pumpkin stem.

4th of July Cake Pops

I tried my hand at making cake pops for the 4th of July.

I used a red velvet cake mix and baked it according to directions.

When the cake was cooled, I crumbled it up and added cream cheese frosting.

After rolling the mixture into 1 inch balls, I stuck them on lollipop sticks and dipped in white chocolate almond bark.

Finally, I added some sprinkles before the chocolate dried.

They were a little time consuming because it was my first time, but they were very tasty.