Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It’s snowing in Chicago as I sit here watching the Macy’s parade. Later we’ll be heading out to eat and then it’s back home to use my day of rest to work on more DIY projects for my vow renewal!
Anyway, I love Weddingbee and search its vast archives constantly. Last night I found some really beautiful DIY projects that I thought I’d share.
My favorite – these pocketfold invitations by Tanya:
Tanya says:
Hi! I’m entering my silk-covered pocketfold invitations into the contest. First I got the cardstock cut into custom-sized sheets, which I sprayed with adhesive and covered with scarlet dupioni silk bought on eBay. Then I cut the cardstock into the appropriate dimensions, painstakingly covered each cut edge with liquid adhesive to prevent fraying, and scored and folded them.
I designed the invitations in Photoshop, using the scanned image of a cherry blossom rubber stamp, which I manipulated to make all the floral designs. Each insert has a unique motif on it. Then I sent out the design to a printer to have it thermographed in black and metallic gold onto ivory linen-textured cardstock. The invitation and all the inserts fit on one 8.5 x 11″ page, which I then had cut at Kinko’s. I layered it with gold paper and bronze stardream cardstock, attached it to the pocketfold with gold photo corners, and closed the pocketfold with brown grosgrain ribbon and a seal customized with the name of each guest (except for my own invitation, which has our names and the date on it).
The envelopes were a matching ivory linen paper, and I used the original cherry blossom rubber stamp (and a tiny blossom one I picked up to match for the RSVP envelopes) to emboss the back flaps with gold embossing powder. I printed them out with fonts matching the invitation.I was so happy with how these turned out!
I also love Vanessa’s watercolor invitations, which were made so personal by the fact that she asked a bridesmaid to draw the beautiful flower used on each piece:
These shower invitations, made by Miss Gardenia’s sister, are so fun and I love the unique ribbon threading on the envelope!
And now for some non-invite DIY projects…
How easy are these confetti holders made from toilet paper rolls?
And aren’t these cookie bags super-cute?
And last but not least I love these gorgeous earrings a bride made for her favors!
I hope this provides some inspiration to you for DIY projects – I know it did for me! If you’re the DIY type, take some time to browse the whole section on Weddingbee here.
Enjoy and happy turkey-day!
E.