What are you making?

Robinred

kab403 wrote: »

RobinRed, How did you make these lovely hearts, would be interested for instructions if you made them yourself...

Cheers, I bought the blank wooden heart shapes off ebay, about £15 for 50, and I stuck the top layer of napkins on with pva. When it had dried I varnished it with watered down pva. hth

kab403

Robinred wrote: »

Cheers, I bought the blank wooden heart shapes off ebay, about £15 for 50, and I stuck the top layer of napkins on with pva. When it had dried I varnished it with watered down pva. hth

Thanks for the instructions... Further questions I'm afraid...

Did you just use "normal" napkins from tesco and the like, or special ones as the colours don't appear to have run? Is the back still ply then? or have you covered the whole thing?

Robinred

kab403 wrote: »

Thanks for the instructions... Further questions I'm afraid...

Did you just use "normal" napkins from tesco and the like, or special ones as the colours don't appear to have run? Is the back still ply then? or have you covered the whole thing?

I used a mixture, I got a pack of mixed cath K ones from ebay that were sold for decoupage, actually they were tissues not napkins, then I used supermarket napkins for the other ones. I only used the top ply, I peeled the other plys (plies?) off, it's easy to miss the layer next to the printed one but you need the printed one on its own. No probs with the colours running.

To make them I spread pva thinly on one side of the heart, put on the tissue layer and smoothed it down. Let it dry, then cut the excess paper off the edges. Repeat for other side then varnish.

The tissue wrinkles a bit but I think this adds to the effect:)

FutureCooper

Thanks for that decoupage info Robinred . . . i have brought some large cardboard numbers for the tables. the plan is to decoupage them with paper to match my colours and theme. Napkins or tissues would be perfect, i had assumed i would have to buy special paper. Might give it a go this weekend!!

Robinred

FutureCooper wrote: »

Thanks for that decoupage info Robinred . . . i have brought some large cardboard numbers for the tables. the plan is to decoupage them with paper to match my colours and theme. Napkins or tissues would be perfect, i had assumed i would have to buy special paper. Might give it a go this weekend!!

Nice one! I'm not sure, but I think it might be worth giving the cardboard letters a varnish before you stick the paper on them, if they're porous, I sort of have an idea that the paper wants a smooth, non-porous, rigid base in order to give a good finish... however that is just my intuition so maybe have a play!

Keensaver

how have you got images into the text box when posting?
thanks!!

Emmylou_2

You guys are SOOOOO talented.

I haven't got a creative bone in my body...BUT...I can follow instructions Very Well.

I made my own save the dates (individual cost including postage less than 50p) - I bought (cheap/kids) postcards (Hobbycraft) and "designed" a label - basically the wording with a couple of cliparts on it, and then handwrote the names on. Basic but effective!

I'm making my own invitations. We're getting married on the ss Great Britain and I'm using the notelets from the gift shop (which show one of four paintings of the ship in sail), again with labels for the inside bit, and then separate (just printed) inserts for stuff like directions, menu choices etc.

I'm also making all the flowers - we're doing paper roses (a la Kirsty) but using second hand books - both DF and I read *lots* - so I'm keeping my eye out for ones that mean something. I've got a few already, where we've both had copies of the same book and now obviously only need one. I'm doing my bouquet, my MOH's bouquet, the flower girl's flowers, and then buttonholes for those who want them. I'm going to use the covers of the books to add a little colour. Hopefully it'll come out nicely.

I'm not doing a bouquet toss though, what I'm going to do is just after the first dance, I'm going to ask all the married couples to dance, and then ask them to sit down if they've been married a year/2 years/5 years/10 years etc, and give my bouquet to the couple who have been married the longest. (By my calculations, that should be my closest Aunt & Uncle (who are nearly at 55 years); they're also my godparents and have been so good to me all my life, especially since I've been grown up and haven't had Mum to rely on.)

VickyVics

Thought I would post a picture of the first 7 flower decorations for the wine glasses. There will be one on each glass.

White_Sapphire

Emmylou wrote: »

I'm not doing a bouquet toss though, what I'm going to do is just after the first dance, I'm going to ask all the married couples to dance, and then ask them to sit down if they've been married a year/2 years/5 years/10 years etc, and give my bouquet to the couple who have been married the longest. (By my calculations, that should be my closest Aunt & Uncle (who are nearly at 55 years); they're also my godparents and have been so good to me all my life, especially since I've been grown up and haven't had Mum to rely on.)

Just wanted to say that that is such a lovely thing to do.

Daeny

I can't show images as a newbie, but I'm making my own flower bouquets.

I'm highly allergic to life in general and I just think that a bout of hayfever would ruin my wedding day for me, so I chose some flowers made out of birch bark shavings from Etsy. Add in a packet of floristry wire for £3 and some gold spray paint for £2.50 and you have my whole set of flowers (one bouquet for me, two slightly smaller for bridesmaids) for under £35.

I haven't actually put the bouquets together yet, but I love them.