Wedding Day (2)

I am so excited about today's projects--yes 2 full tutorials!!!!

if you have been following along since the beginning of the countdown you know I mentioned I have some fun prizes in store. So I am going to kick off the fun today...make sure you read through to find out how you can WIN.

You may have noticed that I have a theme going on here. My absolute favourite colour is green so I am absolutely delighted by PTI's addition of Spring Moss. I hope you are too.

Candle Centre Piece
Candles are so elegant so it makes sense to use as or with your centre piece. Again, my goal for this release is to show you EASY ways to make your own wedding ensembles. The total time to make this project was 10 minutes and that is being generous! And you know what's even better than that? The project cost $1.25 CAD to make. If you add the base tray and the flowers it costs $4.50 CAD.

Step 1
Begin by stamping the large oval on a piece of white tissue paper in spring moss, followed by Wedding Day in black and August 8, 2008 in black too. Note: You only want to stamp on white tissue paper for a white candle.



Step 2
Cut out the image as close as possible.



Step 3
Glue the tissue paper to the candle.


Step 4
Wrap a piece of wax paper around the candle as tightly as possible and heat until the image darkens. Peel back slowly and ensure all areas have melted into the candle.

Tip: When heating do not apply heat directly over top of the image (the wax will run). Rather, heat evenly in a back and forth movement over the entire stamped surface.

Step 5
Attach ribbon at the bottom.





Supplies
paper: Stampers Select White Cardstock by Papertrey Ink
ink: Black Palette, Perfect Match Spring Moss by PTI
stamps: Wedding Day (Urban Design) by Papertrey Ink
accessories: Spring Moss Satin Ribbon by Papertrey Ink, prima flowers
tools: scissors
misc: tissue paper

Personalized Wedding Favour

Again, the key to making your wedding favours is making the task quickly reproducible with the least amount of steps.

Step 1
Cut a piece of cardstock into a square 7.25x7.25 and stamp randomnly. I am showcasing white and spring moss but I also added black at the last minute which is not shown in this photo.



Step 2
Next, I turned the cardstock square to form a diamond and folded the right side of the paper across centre (try and avoid creasing). Repeat with the left side forming a cone. Then I adhered the left side (to secure) with double sided sticky tape.



Step 2
Then I filled the cone (I put pebbles to show you the depth etc) but you can put candies, flower seeds, flower bulbs etc of your choice. At this point I folded the tip over the opening (again avoid creasing paper).







Step 3
Now that the main wedding favour is complete I added the final touches. I stamped the flourished circle and cut it out using the nestabilities circle. I punched out Sara and Thomas with the 1 1/4th inch circle punch and adhered it to the centre of the circle with a pop dot.



I also decided to test out Lisa's FAB tutorial and stamp the decorative square image directly onto the twill ribbon to keep with the flourish theme.



Lastly, I formed the ribbon into a loop and placed it onto the wedding favour using a glue dot and secured the label to ribbon with a few pop dots.



Another variation of the flourished circle. I know how some people are LOVING the 08.08.08 date!



Supplies
paper: Stampers Select White Cardstock by Papertrey Ink, Spring Moss Cardstock by Papertrey Ink
ink: Black Palette, Perfect Match Spring Moss by PTI, Whisper White by SU!
stamps: Wedding Day (Urban Design) by Papertrey Ink
accessories: Spring Moss Twill Ribbon by Papertrey Ink,
tools: scissors, Circle die from Nestabilities by Spellbinders, 1 1/4th inch Circle Punch by EK Success

Have you made it this far? Well this is just the beginning of fun. I have two BIG prizes to award leading up to the release. I sure hope you can make it to the release party too. So what's up for grabs today? How about one of those GORGEOUS perfect match Spring Moss ink pads. Afterall green is my fav colour. How do you win? You can answer one of the following questions: 1) When are you getting married/or your sibling/friend/daughter/son etc? 2) What would you like to see for tomorrow's tutorial? 3) If you are getting married on 08/08/08 PLEASE tell me *wink* ...if you can't answer any of those questions just leave me a comment letting me know which of the two tutorials you liked today. Trust me when I say you WANT to leave a comment in the next few days. All I can say is it is to your benefit *smiles*

Make sure you stop by Candice's blog to see her new sneak peaks--her set looks adorable. She finally received it and is revved up to show you all the goods too.

Have a terrific day! Don't forget to check back again tomorrow.