Bridal Shower Recipe Box

Bridal Shower "Wishes" and Recipe Box

For Jody's bridal shower invitations cards I made, I requested guests to include a few additional items with their RSVP.

1.) I included a square cardstock for guests to write their "wishes" for the bride and groom.

2.) Include their favorite recipe

Above are two photos of the "wishes" sent in by the guests along with a cut-out of the RSVP cards glued onto the bottom. I bought 5x5 square cards (10 pack sold at Joannes or Papersource). The smaller cardstock sent with the invitations is a 3.75x7.75 square cardstock made by DCWV (sold at Joannes)

I attached all of the 5x5 square cards by hole punching the two ends and using the scrapbooking extender to hold it in place. I attached a ribbon to tie the cards together and for a nice softened touch. The photo on the right is the final creation of the "well wishes" album.

For the recipes cards, I bought a smaller coordinating card (Office Max) and made stickers with the guests name and their recipe. Below is a photo of the recipe card. I inserted the recipes from the guests inside the recipe card.

I found a metal tin at Micheals and the "wishes" book and recipe cards fit perfectly into the metal box.

In case you're wondering... here's what the coordinating invitations looked like below. The theme was "pretty in pink".

I asked the bride for a few engagement photos and printed it out on 8.5x11 white paper. The invitation wording is printed on white vellum. For the RSVP cards, I used thicker cardstock and cut out business size cards. A corner punch was used to notch out the corners on the RSVP cards and the "wish" cards to soften the look.

Stacy's wedding updo hair trials

For photos of the day of event scroll to the bottom of my blog for Stacy and Andy's wedding.

Heidi cut her hair after my wedding and it is about shoulder length. Stacy wanted everyone's hair in an updo so for Heidi I created two french rolls that twisted into the center part.

Amy has longer hair and since she was the maid of honor we wanted her to stand out a little bit. I fashioned her hair into random pin curls to create this look.

For Stacy, we tried a few different looks but this was her favorite style. On her wedding day she is going to wear a pearl and diamond studded tiara and a mid length veil. For the veil she wanted it pinned from undernealth and she wanted her updo show through.

This was another classic look we tried.

Updo's from my wedding

Cathy & Eric's Wedding September, 27, 2008



















My sister and sister in-law entertained me as I requested that they come up for a hair pretrial when I couldn't decide what I wanted to do for their hairs. My sister Heidi was my maid of honor and Linh was one of the bridemaids out of four.

They both were good sports as I tested out various styles and this is the look I ended up choosing for my big day as it went very well with the classic vintage theme I wanted. I had also created feather facinators for all the BMs and this accompanied the look very well.

Views from the front, side and back. Heidi is wearing the feather facinator I created for them to wear on our wedding day.

In the first photo of the updo above, Linh is also showcasing these beads I made and we decided not to use them because it didn't match the feather hairpieces.

Stacy's Wedding Hair Updo

Stacy and Andy's Wedding March 28, 2009

I have been creating hair updos for various events (weddings, proms, special occassions) for over 15 years now. My cousin Stacy asked me to help style her bridal updo and her two bridesmaids (my sister Heidi and her cousin Amy) for her wedding day.

Here's the final creation from the left, back, and right views.

Photo of the Bridesmaids (Amy and Heidi)

Feather Hair Pieces

I made these feather hair pieces for my bridesmaids so they would match me since I wore a birdcage veil and had a feather hair piece also.

Some of our wedding photos are posted on the Something Bold website where I bought my birdcage veil.

http://www.somethingbold.com/Cathy&Eric.htm

I feel in love with the vintage classic look and loved how all the pieces turned out.

Feather Hair Pieces
Materials:
1 bag of guinea plumage feathers (available at Joanns or Micheals)
1 bag of mixed feathers with the colors of your choice (available at Joanns or Micheals)
Plain black hair combs (2 pack at walgreens is $1.50)
Satin Ribbon of your choice
1 yard of tule netting
sewing thread and needle

Cut a circular piece of tule as your base to lay the feathers. Arrange the feathers as you like and wrap tightly with thread to set the base together. Connect the satin ribbon with thread and tie to the feather piece. Wrap the satin ribbon around the base of the feathers to cover the base. Sew the ribbon end piece to close. Sew the feather piece to your hair comb and finish.

Jewelry Making- Earrings

Crystal drop earrings

For my cousins bridal shower I hosted a jewelry making class for wire wrapping for 12 ladies. Here's a photo of the earrings we made.


Materials:
2 earwires
4 eyepins - 1 inch long
6 headpins - 2 inch long
8 sapphire crystals 6mm
2 white crystals 6mm

Tools:
round nose pliers
chain nose pliers
wire cutters



I printed out step by step instructions for wire wrapping for the girls to follow but I didn't realize that you have to be pretty good with your hands to wrap the wires properly. I think next time I would use a simpler design for the class that doesn't require as many beads so less wire wrapping. As I stressed in the class, the more practice you have the better your wire wraps would look.

Here's a photo of the earring and necklace set I made for my bridesmaids last year for my wedding.

My Wedding Creations

My Wedding Wishing Tree
In the photo below, I created my own wish tree and tags with various sayings from cardstock and ribbon.

Creating a Diaper Cake

Creating a Diaper Cake


So I'm hosting a baby shower for for a girlfriend and I decided that I would make her a diaper cake that she could use since she mentioned that she wanted guests to bring her diapers as a door prize.

This is the second diaper cake I've ever made and it's pretty easy and simple to put together.

Items you'll need to assemble the diaper cake.

• At least two packs of diapers (Approximately 85-100 diapers for a 3Tier cake depending on how fat you want the cake)
  
• Gifts to hide (i.e.: pacifiers, washcloths, onesies, mittens, socks and baby supplies like lotions, rash cream and baby wash) I just bought mini baby bottles from Party City to tie around the tiers.
  
• Rubber bands (You'll need a rubber band per diaper and tie together and some large ones to hold the layers)
  
• Wooden dowels (about 0.50 cents at Joann's- I bought 1 dowel and cut it into 3 equal peices)
  
• Cardboard large enough for the base (alternatively you can use netting to support the base- they sell the circle cake cardboard base at Micheals or Party City)
  
• Colorful ribbons and bows
• Netting or cellophane
• Tissue Paper ( Most of the diapers have an image on them so I like to cover the entire layer with tissue paper so that the colors can coordinate better)
• Tape
  

Directions to put it all together.

1. To form a layer of the diaper cake, roll up a diaper, starting at the 'open' top end. Wrap a rubber band around the rolled diaper to stop it from unrolling. Make all the diaper rolls before assembling the layers.
   
2. For the top layer add about 7-10 diapers rolls inside a larger rubber band. I use a headband to hold the diapers together and then ribbon to tie it in place then remove the headband. You can also tie smaller rubber bands together to create a larger rubberband if you didn't buy various sizes of rubber bands. For the middle layer, repeat step 1. Then add a new, bigger rubber band and add about 15 diapers. You can also secure them around a new 8oz baby bottle or champagne bottle for the parents.
3. For the base, repeat step 2. Add a very big rubber band and add about 30 diapers.
4. Add a ribbon around each layer to cover the rubber bands. (See the photo on the top left)
5. Now that you know how big your cake will be, cut a circular base out of cardboard or go and by a 14" or 16" circle cake base layer from Micheals or Party City ($2.50).
6. Place the largest layer of the cake on the cardboard base. Or, use a decorative plastic tray or even a pizza pan from the dollar store. Alternatively if you didn't purchase a cardboard tray you can just use the netting around the base to hold the cake together.
   
7. Wrap the layers individually in tissue paper with tape. Add ribbon about 3" size around each layer and tape down.
   
8. Secure them together by carefully inserting 1 or 2 wooden dowels through the base layer and middle layer and then carefully stacking the top layer on it, being careful to get the dowels between the diapers and not through any of the diapers.
9. Add a ribbon around each layer and decorate as you please. (See photo top right)
   
10. To finish off (and help transport) you can wrap the "nappy cake" in cellophane or netting. Tie at the top with a bow, or add a stuffed animal to the tie for a "topper" to the cake.