SO I have been busy as usual working on things I cant show you until April. But after I finished the part I can do now, I managed to start another project...
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| DD's Bouquet |
When My DD's get married I search the internet frantically for deals and inspiration to help me come up with a theme to go with my child and the wedding colors...In the searching this time I came across some paper rose garlands that cost about 20+ $'s for a 6' length...very expensive when you are coming up with decorating a big hall. I decided I could make some garlands myself so I ordered floral tape and wire online...Love
AFLORAL for this I always get my flowers for bouquet, boutineers and corsages from them..and a few to mix in for centerpieces and decorating. Their flowers are a high quality, real looking silks... However I have a hard time spending big bucks on flowers to decorate a whole room. SO I prayed about it alot and one day I had inspiration...We have hung white lights on the ceiling before nice lighting effect but a little bland...My white light source moved away, but MY new light source had lights with green wires, and in my want to make the green light cording more acceptable my inspiration came... make your own garlands with the green wired lights. I ordered bulk Purple tissue paper on Amazon from
Buttons, Bags and Bows ...I got colors to go with her bouquet. I start fiddling with dies and things to make the flowers...the tissues proved too thin..they cut well but did not work for what I had in mind. Ultimately I did the old grade school fan fold and tore it in half and then used floral tape to attach it around every other light.
My daughter saw me attaching flowers and said gee that looks great, where did that Idea come from?... you should do a blog post...since she has never made an observation like that before I decided to do a post. I plan to dress them up more but I have to go in stages because I cant be over working at the end. So for right now I am only doing one color per strand. I will be making 8-10 strands, so if I want to I might add some green tissue leaves or add some more flowers in a different shade of purple. So for this DIY mom I will have roughly 650' of garland with lights to use in decorating..for the same price as buying 1-6' unlighted piece... In May I promise to post a picture of the finished product decorating my DD reception. I love when inspiration works in my favor!
Until later ...
Happy Stamping!
PS ...I do plan on making a nice paper one for decorating some lattice that will be more visually close to peoples eyes...if I manage to have enough time I will post them after I make them.
The title sounds like a great book to read, but not so fun evening of card making! I don't know what it is, maybe too much working on the wedding, stress, or what have you, having to sit down to make a masculine birthday card was a monumental task. This card took forever to design and create!
