Painted Wedding Card Box

I finally finished painting the card box for my wedding.  I made it out a Frozen-themed treasure chest.  I know, I know, Frozen-lovers all over the world are probably mad at me for defacing a beloved Frozen product.

The end result is quite nice though and will match my wedding cards perfectly! 

Even the back is painted. 

If you would like to know how I did this, visit my wedding blog here.

Have a great day!

DIY Love is Sweet Wedding Tags and Blank Tags

There are new Love is Sweet printable tags in the shop.

You just need to print the PDF files in colour on cardstock and cut them out with regular or fancy edging scissors.

I also made some blank tags available in case you want to create custom tags.  You can put your own phrase, your party/wedding information on them, write Thank You, etc.

They come in sets of 4 pages.  I left them in JPG format so that you can open them up easily in Photoshop or another art/photo editing program.

Enjoy!

xoxo

DIY Happily Ever After Wedding Favour Tags

I've been working on favour tags for my wedding in October and came up with some cute tag designs.  I used cardstock that had white on one side and a lovely water colour pattern on the back with some shimmering details.  I printed in colour for the blank side and printed just text onto the patterned side.  I really liked how the back of my tags turned out and decided to make a set of tags for my shop with a similar effect.

I gave these tags a watercolour look, plus some lace details.  The sunset coloured tags have text and writing in the background instead of the lace detail.

If you would like to use these tags for your wedding favours, just purchase the PDFs from my store, print them in colour onto cardstock, and cut out your tags with regular or scalloped edging scissors.  The files download instantly.

Have a great week!

xoxo

DIY Water Distressed Paper Flowers Tutorial

I've been having fun making water distressed paper flowers the last few days.  

They are easy to make and they look quite nice.  I am thinking about using them for my wedding decorations next year.  What do you think?

By varying the petal shapes, colours, and centers, I have made a lots of different types of flowers.

I even experimented with making some anemones.  It's fun  :) 

I have amassed quite the collection of them already...

I even made different kinds of leaves  :D 

If you would like to know how to make these, the tutorial can be found here on my wedding blog.

Have a great day!

xoxo

Finished Hedgehog and Bird Wedding Cake Toppers

Yay!  The little hedgehog wedding cake toppers are done!  Cute, huh?  I made them in Fall-themed colours.

These are the finished bird wedding cake toppers.  They are also ready for an orange and blue-green almost Fall-themed wedding.  I made these two sets of toppers in preparation for my wedding, but I think I made them too small.  They are only about 1.5 inches tall.  I think they should be about 3 inches tall to be visible on a cake from a distance.  These would be perfect for a little cake  :)  So I will call them my prototypes for now. 

Here are some pictures from when I first painted them.  

At this point they were missing some detail on the eyes.

This is after the detail for the eyes was added.

 He looks very lonely when there is no one standing next to him. 

Here are the birds after I painted them.

 I gave them some cute, rosy faces.

 And lots of detail on the wings.  My paint brush magically creates a weird indentation as it dries and it makes the perfect feather stamp.

 The blue bird leans a little to the side.  For future birds, I will need to make a flatter bottom so it does not want to roll.  However, the leaning works with the interaction between the two birds. 

Here they are drying the night before.

Today I gave them their clear coats.  Now they are glossy and protected.  I love them.  Now I will make more (but bigger).

Have a great day!

New Sculptures in Progress - Hedgehog and Bird Wedding Cake Toppers

I am working on some new sculptures.  This time, I'm making wedding cake toppers.

I started with a bunch of foil balls.  You just scrunch up foil and roll it into a ball.  Fun to do  :)  Then I cover them with a layer of Sculpey and start to add the details.

For the two birds, I added a hemisphere for the head.  Blended the sections together, and molded and added two wings.  I can't find my clay tools, so I just used a big hat pin to cut/draw details in like the feathers on the wings and tails.  I used the head of the pin to make the indents for the eyes.

The finished pair is pretty cute.  

Next I made a hedgehog couple in the same way.  The quills are not a separate piece.  I just use the pin to draw the shape of the quills in and then use the pin to push extra clay towards the quills.  Then I smooth it all out and use the pin to drew indents for quills.

The flowers are circles with petals cut in.  Then I add a little circle of clay in the middle. 

 I put them on a tray for baking and off they went into the oven.

Bye bye, Birdies!

About half an hour later, the models are cured.  They are sitting on my desk now waiting to be painted. 

Have a great day!