Smitten With~ DIY Headbands

Seriously head over heals for Project Wedding's headband tutorial! Awesome photo styling aside, the color and fabric combos are so delightful! Perfect gifts for bridesmaids, flower girls, Christmas, or ones self. I'm so crafting my ass off this weekend!

DIY Love: Button Tree

My love of buttons comes from visiting my grandmother when I was a little girl. She had jars and jars of colorful buttons, all shapes and sizes, from vintage to new. She was a wonderful seamstress and like most granddaughters, I regret not learning all I could from her. But I digress. I came across this darling do it yourself button tree from Makin Projiks and thought "what a great way to get those buttons out of the jar"! A little time consuming, but easy peasy and oh so pretty. I really like the combination of pastels as shown here. If you found enough buttons (yards sales are gold mines for them), these trees would make great wedding centerpieces, or decoration at the guest book and/or cake table.



For instructions, click here.

Sneak Peek: Crochet Neck Warmer

Here is one of the projects I worked on today: a cozy little neck warmer with scalloped edging. I am not a whiz by any means when it comes to the art of crochet and knitting, but this was super simple and took me less than an hour. I'm working on the pattern right now and hope to have it up soon and available to you for FREE! Since I did it off the top of my head without counting, I know have to go back an re-create it.


Very Anthropologie, no?

Butterfly Table Numbers

I love the use butterflies in the fall. Their wings are truly in the season's palette. Butterflies also represent new beginnings, the perfect symbol for a wedding date. Here's an easy way I Incorporated them into table numbers:



Other than your ink and card stock, this project is free. Here is what I used:

Free butterfly clip art from Wordplay. You can also find vintage botanical butterfly clip art at Antique Clip Art.

Darrian's Frames is a terrific dingbat collection. Since you can change the size and color of the twenty plus frames available, it's a must-download for anyone planning diy wedding projects.

Remember the collection of fonts I gave you to download 2 days ago? That's where I plucked this calligraphy number from. In case you need it again here's the link.

Play around with the size and color until you find something that really strikes your fancy. With just these three simple downloads, you have hundreds of possibilities. Happy diy-ing!

DIY Paper Flowers from Lillyella

Not only is this diy tissue paper flower project from Lillyella easy peasy and light on the purse strings, it's end product is so perdy and eco friendly! Can't you think of a million and one uses for these?



What you'll need for one 5" flower:
4 pieces of tissue paper, 10" x 5"
18" piece of thin wire, floral or any other type
Scissors


Stack the four sheets of tissue on top of each other. Make 3/8" accordion folds, creasing after each fold. I find it easiest to make one fold, flip it over, make the other, and repeat, so you are always folding up away from you and it's easy to see.


Fold the 18" piece of wire in half and slip over the center of the folded tissue. Twist the bottom closed. Using sharp scissors, trim the ends of the paper into rounded or pointy shapes. I chose rounded for this one.


Separate the four tissues layers, one at a time until the flower begins to take shape. Depending on what you will use them for, you can keep the bottom flat or you can puff them into a ball for hanging.



Be sure to add Lillyella to your daily reading list. Not only is the blog the bees knees, with diy projects and delectable recipes, they also have a sweet Etsy shop chock full of whimsical jewelry.

DIY Project~ {fabric flowers}

I've been looking for a good DIY project to share and struck gold with Laurie Cinotto's blog. Seems that everyone is into fabric flowers these days and Laurie demonstrates how to make them yourself:





Group together and add to a belt, hair clip, or arrange them as Laurie has in little vases. Lovely for wedding decor or bridesmaid gifts. The possibilities are endless! Look for vintage fabric or feed sack material on Etsy or your local flea market. Super cute and way easy!

Freebie: Printable Matchbook Notepads

I love this freebie from Creature Comforts: printable thank you matchbook notepad favor! Ez designed these for a guest post on Coco & Kelly's blog. The flourishes and font are so pretty in periwinkle blue. Download here or visit Creature Comforts and Coco & Kelly.

DIY Monday

I loved my post from last week, "Porkchops and Peaches", so I decided for this DIY Monday to give you more confetti ideas.

Martha Stewart sells hole punches in a number of different sizes, shapes and styles. My favorite is the butterfly punch. So pretty versatile. The little cut outs can also be used as decoration on escort cards, the pages of the guest book and table numbers.

{butterfly collage from ali edwards}

You can use store bought scrapbook paper, design your own using a floral dingbat or clip-art, or, if you want to be eco-chic, use old books and magazines.

Put a handful of your clippings in muslin bags, coin envelopes, or glassine bags and stamp with your monogram.

DIY Monday~Seed Packet Favors

I love a simple project. This one, courtesy of yours truly, is seed packs I designed for one of my wedding favors. It's easy, economical and ecological!



To make, you will need:

Box of small recycled coin envelopes. You can purchase kraft color in any office supply store or find assorted colors on Etsy. I Like 2 1/2x4 1/4 inch size.

Bulk seeds. I love heirloom vegetables, herbs and lettuces.

Instruction sticker. I designed mine to be 1 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches and printed on a label sheet.

Small glassine bags (for freshness!)



Now for the freebie part! I downloaded Darrians Frames from FontSpace and Attic from FreePremiumFonts. Play around with the frame and font sizes. I used 200 for the frame (turned 90 deg.) and 20 font on the front of the envelope.

Don't you just love the vintage, handmade quality? The font appears to be hand stamped. So cute for a garden or backyard wedding! And you can switch up the font and frame color depending on what sort of seeds you use.

Dear Monday

Happy Monday to everyone! This is a super busy week for me, as I am adding a lot of features to my blog and helping with my future sister-in-law's baby shower. While I'm setting up my photographers blog roll today, I thought I'd share a wonderful idea with you.

This picture comes from Stephanie Williams Photography blog. The couple, Ashley and Jeff, integrated birds into their wedding design. My favorite is the love birds notes. Pretty little birds made from vintage looking scrapbook paper were placed in a galvanized bucket and guests were asked to leave a little note for the couple. What a great idea to add these lovely sentiments to a photo album or scrap book! Wonderful alternative to traditional guest books.

image from {stephanie williams photography}

I found a bird template here and scrapbook paper here . With thousand of different patterns and styles, you have plenty of options for coordinating with your wedding colors and theme.

{bird template}