Decorations

DIY Hanging Wisteria Fairy Light Flower Curtain Photo Backdrop

DIY Hanging Wisteria Fairy Light Flower Curtain Photo Backdrop

For her outdoor fairy garden inspired wedding, my bestie hosted a beautiful hanging wisteria altar pergola to exchange her vow, and ever since I saw it I instantly fell in love with the idea of creating a curtain of my own for using as a beautiful photo backdrop! So when my favorite silk flower provider featured some gorgeous wisteria garlands and stems, I knew it was the perfect time to craft my own Fairy Light Flower Curtain to feature at my Vintage Victorian Cocktail Party!

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DIY Silk & Wooden Flower Tea Cup Centerpieces

DIY Silk & Wooden Flower Tea Cup Centerpieces

Anybody care for a spot of tea? While tea is usually my winter warmer of choice, with the start of my collection of tea cups I wanted to see what other uses I could put them to in the warmer months while still having them for serving future tea parties and brunches. Enter these Teacup Mini Centerpieces, a perfect petite floral addition to my myriad of party decorations!

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Sealing Wax Taper Candle Wine Bottle Centerpieces

Sealing Wax Taper Candle Wine Bottle Centerpieces

Be it a party or a date night at home, there’s nothing like a little romantic candle light to set the mood,  and one of my favorite styles I’ve seen is when tapered candles are used to create candlescapes with wine bottles! Unfortunately for me, real candles are a little too much of a fire hazard for our home’s parties at present, but it was the perfect opportunity to create reusable candle holders from my existing wine bottles, with a little help from my favorite stationery sealing wax.

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DIY Tissue Paper Circle Photo Booth

DIY Tissue Paper Circle Photo Booth

Every great party needs a photo booth! Whether it's a wedding, bachelorette party, bridal shower, baby shower or anything in between, having a decorated wall that your guests can pose in front of is always a crowd pleaser! There’s so many photo booth options out there so for my first homemade photo booth, I wanted something easy to make but that would be a fun textured backdrop that could be used for a variety of events. Enter this tissue paper circle photo booth, with its layers of inexpensive tissue paper turning my blank wall into a light and bright backdrop for fabulous photos!

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DIY Pressed Flower Self Adhesive Wax Seals

DIY Pressed Flower Self Adhesive Wax Seals

I love flowers in all forms and especially in making pretty petite details to adorn my crafting projects. So as I started my journey in wax seal making, I had to try to add a little floral flair to some stationary details too! So I gathered some of the smallest flowers in my collection and these Pressed Flower Self Adhesive Seals were born!

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DIY Spring Silk Flower Vase Centerpieces

DIY Spring Silk Flower Vase Centerpieces

f there's a big beautiful bloom I love for spring, it has to be the peony! They are the soft, delicate, romantic beauty that I always want to include in my party decorations, so my Goddess of Spring 30th Birthday was the perfect time to stock up and experiment with them in all sorts of centerpieces and flower crowns! It also gave me the perfect chance to craft a silk flower centerpiece around my favorite flower that is an easy and beautiful arrangement for any event, this whimsical springtime Peony themed vase centerpiece.

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DIY Peony & Cherry Blossom Spring Silk Flower Milk Jug Centerpiece

DIY Peony & Cherry Blossom Spring Silk Flower Milk Jug Centerpiece

Spring has sprung and there are flowers in the air! As we all know, April showers bring May flowers, so my perfect way to end this month is by showcasing all my favorite silk flower projects I’ve made so far and finally finish writing their tutorials, starting with this big and bold Cherry Blossom and peony milk jug centerpiece!

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DIY Silk Flower Eucalyptus Garlands

DIY Silk Flower Eucalyptus Garlands

Garlands covered with beautiful blooms are the perfect way to deck out any table in a romantic springtime vibe, whether for a wedding or a fancy dinner at home! When I was designing my dinner table for my Goddess of Spring Cocktail Party, I knew I wanted to incorporate a long, over the top, gorgeous floral garland to set the mood for a romantic and opulent evening and these beautiful, easy to make garlands were the perfect choice!

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Halloween Witch Canvas

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After how much fun I had making the Ombre Wedding Canvases I decided to make a whole slew of them for the upcoming holidays! First, I designed a fun spooky canvas for the Halloween Season.

I didn’t want to ombre this one but instead tried to make the background a black and purple squiggles as a nice offset to the black decals and lettering.

Supplies:
11 x 14 Canvas
Black and Purple Paint
Paint Brush
Paint Bowls
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
Black Vinyl
Lettering and Decal Cut File

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1.     Mix your black and purple paint with a tablespoon or two of water, just enough to give it a watercolor consistency. Paint the purple on first in wavy squiggles along the canvas until the canvas is mostly covered in paint.

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2.     Wash out the brush and fill in some of the lighter purple spots with squiggly line of black. Be careful to not over paint with the black, if you do too much, you end up with just a black canvas.

3.     Upload the cut file into the Cricut Design software. Size the file to be 11.5” tall. Cut out in black vinyl.

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4.     Cut the vinyl design in half so that the text and bottom canvas decal are on two separate pieces. Weed the excess vinyl from the designs, leaving only the text and bottom decal. Lay transfer paper over the designs and smooth out, removing all the air bubbles. Lift the text design and arrange on the center top of the canvas. Smooth the design onto the canvas and remove the transfer paper, leaving the text on the canvas.

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5.     Repeat with the cauldron and pumpkins decal, arranging it along the bottom of the canvas.

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I also ended up making this on a smaller canvas than the wedding signs, mainly because I want to hang it on my door! An added benefit is that you don’t need a special long mat to cut it and can just use the standard mat. Happy Halloween!

Ombre Watercolor Wedding Signs

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DIY Ombre Wedding Signs #diywedding #ombre

These wedding signs may be my favorite thing I’ve made in September for my two brides, and funnily enough they were the thing that was made “in a hurry.” I had finished the other crafts, gotten all my candle holders and decorations together, and my friend/bride asked if I had any ideas for a “Pick a Seat, not a Side” signs.

I considered staining wood and using vinyl for lettering since it was an outdoor wedding, but I only had 3 days before the wedding and wasn’t about to get that done in time. Then I saw my pile of blank canvases (come now we all have one, those darn Michaels sales!) and saw a great opportunity to use them!

I used removable vinyl for the lettering and would highly recommend you doing so if you don’t plan to keep these forever. They held up just fine outside and even when it rained, but the vinyl being removable made it much easier to move the lettering if you don’t position it just right the first time.

When we had first started thinking about her wedding, there were so many ombre details we saw on Pinterest that we loved so I figured, why not ombre these signs? I absolutely love how they came out and, other than making sure my letters were all looking nice, easy to make and only took a couple hours! And by a couple hours, that was half an hour of doing things and a couple hours of letting paint dry.

Supplies:
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
Transfer Paper
White Adhesive Vinyl
Purple, Lavender, and White Paint
16” x 20” Canvases
Paint Brush
Bowls for Paint
Pick a Seat Cut File
Not a Side Cut File
You’re Loved by both Cut File
The Groom and Bride Cut File

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1.     First, mix your different colors of paint. I used a mix of white, lavender, and violet to make 4 different shades. Add a couple tablespoons of water to each bowl to thin the paint, making it only slightly thicker than water so that it acts more like a watercolor.

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2.     Starting from light to dark, paint ¼ of the canvas light purple. Take the next darkest shade and paint the second quarter of the canvas. Wash the brush and using the lighter shade, brush across the canvas between the two color stripes to blend the colors. Continue in this fashion until the canvases are both painted. Let dry.

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3.     Do a second coat on each canvas the same way as you painted the first one, making sure to wash your brush between colors. Once completed, wash out brush and from dark to light, brush horizontally across the canvas to smooth any paint lines. Let Dry.

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4.     Using the Provided cut files, cut the "you're loved.." file to 5 inches tall and the other files to 11.5 inches tall (I made mine 16 inches wide and that made it a lot harder to keep them on the canvas and cut them). I’d recommend the 12” x 24” mat on these to fit them to the larger canvases.

DIY Ombre Wedding Signs #diywedding #ombre
DIY Ombre Wedding Signs #diywedding #ombre

5.     Weed the designs and cover with transfer paper. I prefer grid line transfer paper to help keep all your letters level.

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6.     Transfer the designs onto your dry canvases. Press out any air bubbles and remove transfer paper, leaving the design behind.

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These could easily be made in different colors to fit most wedding themes and were a fun twist on the traditional signs. Better yet, I already had everything to make them so they were free! :) Would you make these signs for your wedding?

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DIY Ombre Wedding Signs #diywedding #ombre

Wine Bottle Table Numbers

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Both of the weddings I crafted for last month have something in common, wine bottles! An established wedding trend for the DIY Bride is to use painted wine bottles in centerpieces and for other wedding décor. With that in mind, what easier way to make table numbers than to display them on one of the wine bottles!

Supplies:
Painted Wine Bottles
Adhesive Vinyl 
Transfer Paper
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
Table Numbers 1-6 Cut File
Table Numbers 7-12 Cut File
Table Numbers 13-18 Cut File

1.     Import the Table Number Cut Files into the Cricut Design Software. Size the cut files to 11.5” high and cut out on the vinyl of your choice.

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2.     Weed any excess vinyl from design and cover with transfer paper, smoothing the transfer paper so that there are no air bubbles.

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3.     Once transfer paper is placed, cut out numbers so each Table number is its own rectangle.

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4.     Peel Transfer tape with design off of the vinyl backing and place onto the painted wine bottle. Press design onto bottle then remove the tape, leaving the vinyl table number on the bottle. Repeat for the rest of your bottles.

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Making wine bottle table numbers is very easy with a craft cutter; in fact it’s basically cut it out and stick it on. I have designed a basic set of table numbers here but you could easily design your own and use the same steps to make customized table numbers!

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Vellum Paper Rose Escort Card Holders

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With all my leftover roses from the Beauty and the Beast Shower, I have been looking for a new home for them. Luckily, they worked out perfectly for my sorority sister’s Rustic Glam Gold Wedding! Her main flowers are white roses, so these beauties were the perfect accent to go with her existing floral arrangements. With that in mind, we decided these would be perfect as place card holders for her guests!

While the assembly of the flowers is the same as in the previous Vellum Roses post, there are a couple other steps to make them the perfect escort card holders. In particular, I used vinyl to color the leaves a pretty metallic gold to go with the wedding colors and then secured each place card with double sided tape to ensure that they all stayed with their flowers and were easy to set up the day of!

Supplies:
Cream Vellum
Paper Modgepodge
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Escort Cards (I printed mine on cardstock and cut them into 2” x 3” rectangles)
Gold Vinyl (optional)

1.     Print, cut out, and assemble the roses like in the Vellum Roses tutorial. Take care to not fold or attach the leaf portions to your flowers yet.

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2.     Design, print, and cut out your escort cards (I used the font Good Vibes and Bebas Neue). Using double sided tape, tape the back of the card to the front of one of the petals. I generally taped mine a few petals out from the center were the card was clearly readable. Once you have all your cards taped, set the flowers aside but try to keep them in whatever order you want them placed for the wedding.

3.     If you are using vinyl on your leaves, remove backing from your vinyl and lay it down on your work surface, adhesive side up. Arrange as many leaves as you can on the sheet and smooth them down, making sure there are no air bubbles. Using scissors, cut leaves out of the vinyl.

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4.     Fold two of the three leaves as shown in the original tutorial. For the third leaf, fold in the opposite way as the other two leaves so that it will prop up the back of the flower.

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5.     Using hot glue, attach the leaves to the flowers, making sure the “proper” leaf is in the back, perpendicular to the escort card.  (Sorry these are a little blurry!)

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I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about the leaves being gold but as it turned out I adored it! With the roses being a little translucent themselves the gold leaves gave a magical quality to the roses, which of course I loved! I ended up being able to pack them up in a box with glass dividers so that they would move around and would stay in order for their trip up to their mountain wedding. What would you use for your escort cards?

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Frosted Glass Guestbook Sign

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So many weddings these days come with the cutest guest books, gone are the days of just a book and pen! My husband and I had people sign the mat of a picture frame, but I’ve seen puzzle pieces, messages in a bottle, and photobooks used as other great guest book alternatives! One thing you should think about with these guest books is to make sure your guests know they are supposed to sign it. With that in mind, I designed this lovely little Guestbook sign for the gold rustic wedding I have been DIYing for.

This is similar to the DIY Wedding Frames I did previously, but with just a little extra detail of the tree with the frosted glass to give a special touch to this sign. Originally I was going to do this with a mirror, but the silvery finish of the mirror and the gold made it look too Christmassy as opposed to wedding. However, if silver is one of your metallics, doing this project with a mirror instead of a frame would look beautiful!

Supplies:
Picture Frame (I used an 8” x 10” picture frame)
Removable Vinyl
White Vinyl
Scrapbook Paper
Frosted Glass Paint
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
Sign our Guestbook Cut File

1.    Like the DIY Wedding Frames, trace and cutout the correct size of paper based on your frame and mount in your frame.

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2.     Cut out your Tree or other design with the Cricut. I found a free piece of clipart for mine. Use removable vinyl and measure your glass to ensure that you make it the right size. Using transfer paper, affix your design onto your frame.

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3.     Remove the glass from your frame or, if like mine your frame and glass are one piece, cover the frame with painter’s tape. Using your frosted glass paint, cover your picture frame or glass with 2 to 3 coats of paint, waiting between coats for the paint to dry. 

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4.     Once the paint is dry, remove your vinyl tree design. Depending on how think your paint layer is, it is helpful to use the hook tool that comes with the Cricut or a toothpick to lift some of the skinnier branches while not pulling up the paint as well.

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5.     Now, cut out the “Sign our Guestbook” Lettering with your craft cutter similar to the DIY Wedding Frames, but size the file based on the height and width of the frame you chose.

6.     Cut out the design, weed the excess vinyl and transfer it to the front of your frame with transfer paper and you are done!

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I love that the frosted glass still shows the tree slab design on the paper and the actual tree design gives a little extra dimension to the whole sign. At the end of mine, I actually painted the frame a more champagne gold to go with the others I had made and it turned out perfect! What other wedding signs would you make for your wedding? :)

Easy DIY Wedding Signs

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While Wedding Season really starts in late Spring I seem to have gotten all my wedding DIY fun in this September! Two of my sorority sisters are getting married this month and I have had so much fun making things for their big days!

One of the often overlooked details in wedding decorations are signs, so I have designed two simple ones for the Gift Table and Favor Table in 5 x 7 frames, so that they are easy to pack, look cute, and were super easy to make! This bride is having an upscale rustic wedding in golds, cream and teal, so I incorporated the rustic tree slices in the gold background paper with white lettering to make it easy to read and also give the signs an upscale feel. After all, white writing is far harder to come by than almost any other color with printers; luckily that’s where a craft cutter comes in handy!

The best part of this project is that is it totally customizable to your colors and theme, you simply have to pick the paper, frames, and colors that you want to personalize them for your big day!

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Supplies:
Picture Frames of Choice (I got mine from a Walmart a while back)
Scrapbook Paper
White Adhesive Vinyl
Transfer Paper
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
Gifts and Cards Cut File
Thank you Sign Cut File

1.     Upload the Cut files into the Cricut Software and cut out on the vinyl color of your choice. I used removable vinyl and would recommend it if you want to use the frames again for a non-wedding purpose. I sized my cut files to be 6” wide.

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2.     Cut out the sign lettering on your choice of vinyl. Weed out the excess vinyl. Using grid patterned transfer paper, measure and cut out two 5” x 7” pieces. Cut it out along the grid lines; it will make the vinyl transfer so much easier!

3.     Take the glass out of the frames and arrange the lettering where you would like it on the glass. If needed, you can tape the sides of the vinyl backing to keep it in place but I found it to be uneccesary.

4.     Lining up the Transfer paper to the top left corner of the glass, cover the entire piece of glass with the 5” x 7” transfer paper piece. Using a smoother or your hands, smooth out any air bubbles.

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5.     Now, lift the transfer paper and vinyl design off the glass, making sure to not completely remove the transfer paper from the glass; keeping it stuck will keep your letters right where you wanted them! Once the vinyl design is removed from the backing, take the backing off the glass.

6.     Restick the transfer paper to the glass to adhere the lettering. Smooth out any air bubbles, then completely remove the transfer paper, leaving the lettering exactly where you wanted it on the glass.

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7.     For the background in the frame, trace around the glass of your frames then cut it out with scissors. Place the background paper behind the glass in the frame and you are done!

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While I made just the two signs for the Gift Table and Favor Table, you could also easily use this for table numbers, buffet signs, or your guestbook sign! I think I will do these again for my next shower; they are so easy and can be totally customized to whatever theme you want! What would you use these signs for? :)

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Vinyl Wall Quote Decorations

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One of my favorite things about planning DIY Parties and my Cricut is that it makes it so easy to make custom decorations for your theme that guests are always impressed by! Here we are starting with something simple, designing your own quote cutouts using your Cricut!

For the Beauty and the Beast Theme, I went with movie quotes that worked well with what I was designing, mainly the Tea Bar, Teacup and Tea Favors, Food, and Guestbook.

For this project I would highly recommend getting a larger 12” x 24” mat, it makes it so much easier to design and cut your quotes!

Supplies:
Black Adhesive Vinyl Roll
Craft Cutter and Tool Set
Adhesive Mat
 

1.     To start, you need to make your text into a picture. I have done some text cuts in the Cricut software but it doesn’t work as well for the cursive style texts as well. When I need to make such pictures, I use PicMonkey. You can use the free version for this font with no issues! Go to picmonkey.com and select the Design Tab on the Top. Don’t pick any of the suboptions and it should take you to a blank square to start.

2.     For Canvas Color, select the “Transparent Canvas” Box and Apply.

3.     Now, resize the background to 2000 x 1000 pixels. Go to the Resize tab, uncheck the “Keep Proportions” Option, then enter your number and click Apply.

4.     Now you can insert the text of your choice! Select the Button the text button (Tt), Select the Font you want (I used Great Vibes for my text), then click add text

5.     A small text box will appear on your canvas. Type in whatever text you want, then using the text options or by manually dragging the box, change the size of the text to fit your background. You can also change colors and other text properties here but there is no need for this project.

6.     Save the design as a picture by selecting “Export” on the upper options bar, naming the file, then export to computer.

7.     Now, Import the Picture into the Cricut Software. Follow the tutorial for the Bride Tribe Tumblers if you need help importing the photo to the software.

8.     Size the Picture to be 11.5” tall. Confirm that the width is no longer that 23.5”. Cut out the image on removable vinyl with the large cutting mat.

9.     Remove all the excess vinyl from the image and cover with contact paper. Smooth the contact paper to adhere the design and remove any air bubbles.

10.    Stick to the wall! Clean the wall beforehand; then arrange where you want your design and smooth the contact paper onto the wall.

11.     Smooth out any air bubbles again and slowly remove the contact paper. My contact paper did a really good job of sticking to the design and not as good of a job unsticking it, so smooth the letters as you remove the contact paper to fully stick them to your wall.

As you can see, you can easily make any words you like in a myriad of fonts once you get the basics down! What quotes would you put on your wall? :)