Posts from — November 2012

Thank you Favor Tag/ Cupcake Topper Templates:

• Yellow Thank You Tag
• Turquoise Thank You Tag
• Orange Thank You Tag
• Pink Thank You Tag
• Mint Green Thank You Tag
• Gray Thank You Tag

How to make a Favor Tag:

1. Print the template out on a white card stock paper (12 tags per sheet, 2″ wide)
2. Using a 2″ Paper Puncher, punch the circles out.  (Or cut them out with scissors/xacto knife)
3. Using a 1/4″ hole puncher, punch a hole above the heart (Or a regular hole puncher)
4. String a ribbon through the hole, and tie it to your wedding favor!

How to make a cupcake topper

1. Print the template out on a white card stock paper (12 tags per sheet)
2. Using a 2″ Paper Puncher, punch the circles out.  (Or cut them out with scissors/xacto knife)
3. Tap/hot glue a cupcake topper stick to the back.
4. Stick it in to your cupcake!

^ Nautical Cork Wedding via Brosnan Photographic

^ Nautical Portuguese Wedding via RuffledBlog

^ Beach Wedding Inspiration via Wedding Wire

^ Sail Away With Me Inspiration via Ruffled Blog

^ Colorful Nautical Invitation via InvitationCrush

^ DIY Nautical Wedding via AdoreWeddingBlog

^ Coral Aisle Decorations via JL Designs

^ Coastal & Casual Southern Wedding via Elizabeth Anne Designs

^ Nautical Inspiration via Grey Likes Weddings

^ Malibu Wedding via Style Me Pretty

^ via Lovelyness

>>> Click here for “Nautical Wedding Theme” Pinterest Page <<<

This is The Little Canopy’s signature handmade paper flower wedding backdrop!  It’s 9 feet wide by 18 feet tall, and it has about 600 handmade paper flowers on a fabric.  The variety of flower shapes and sizes gives it much depth and texture, and the lighting that’s shooting from below and above give its dramatic finish.  It took about 4-6 weeks to make since I only had after 5pm and the weekend to work on, and probably about 20 bags of hot glue sticks.  You can find it in my etsy shop.  Unfortunately since it’s so big I don’t have a shipping method for this, so it’ll have to be picked up in Atlanta, or you can buy the DIY listing where I ship out the flowers + fabric and you have to glue them yourself.  Anyways I thought I’d dedicate this post to brides who would like to make themselves a handmade paper flower backdrop and find some useful tutorials.  A lot of it is improvising, cutting petals in different shapes using the tutorials below, and just lots and lots of gluing!  If you have paper scrap left over, cut it into a leaf shape and glue it at the bottom too.

Tutorials for DIY Handmade Paper Flowers:

^ How to make recylced paper flowers via How About Orange

^ Video: How to make a paper rose

^ Simple Paper Flowers

^ Kusudama Tutorial Part 1

^ Tissue Paper & Paper flowers Tutorial

^ Let me make you some giant flowers

^ Tutorial for Newspaper Flowers

^ Paper Flower Tutorial

^Paper Flower Centerpieces Tutorial

^ Fairy Tale Paper Flower Tutorial

^ Two methods to craft paper flowers

I have put together all these cute boutonnieres from Etsy artists from all the colors of the rainbow.  Unlike a bride who needs a veil, tiara, earrings, necklace, bracelets, rings, brooches, shoes, inner skirts, etc, a groom only have a few things to jazz up their style with.  Ties and bow ties, cufflinks, earrings, and maybe handkerchief? So a boutonnieres has a big impact on their look, even though they’re so petite.  It makes a groom look like a groom!  Pick wisely, ladies!

^ Red Boutonniere & Hair Clip MATCHING by SewSmashing

^ Orange Calla Boutonniere by ysoriginals

^ Yellow Felt Boutonniere by ThursdayCraftLove

^ Rick Rack Rose Bud Boutonniere – Pink and Gray by roseandbirch

^ Boutonnieres Wedding Country Groom Groomsman by FairyfolkWeddings

^ Tea Green Flower burlap Boutonniere by BrightBride

^ White Rose and Lime Green Pom Boutonniere by KateSaidYes

^ Artsy Vintage Handmade Groom Boutonnieres boutonieres by roundtherosies

^ Boutonniere For A Blue Wedding GlobeThistle Salal Queen Annes Lace by donnahubbard

^ Rustic Wedding Boutonnieres -Set of 5 Blue Feather by CherubinoCrafts

^ Rosette Brooch Pin Rose Broach Pin Navy Blue by Brydferth

^ Eggplant Purple Satin Boutonniere with Pearl and Spotted Feather by BloominCute

Look what we have in our etsy shop now!  These awesome cute yarn pompom flowers that looks like craspedia billy balls.  Perfect for vintage, artsy wedding tables to brighten up everyone’s mood.   I like having these everywhere in my house on shelves, bathroom, on my nightstand etc. These vases are from Michael’s, but it will be much cuter if you have miss matching vintage vases that you find from antique stores.  I had a lot of craspedia billy ball flowers in my wedding bouquet, I only wish I made these sooner to incorporate them into my wedding.

You can find these here

With Winter coming up, I thought I’d collect the perfect accessories to go with winter wedding themes.  Feather bridal hair accessories!  Feather hair accessories give brides this romantic, soft and fragile look that reminds you of fresh snow.  In fact feather bridal accessories go with any theme, from classic to vintage to even to achieve bold wedding themes with strong a feather color.  Not to mention that it makes the bride’s head+face look tiny. lol!

^ Once Wed

^ Love it So Much

^ Feather Bridal Hair Accessories by ChicWeddingHairStyles

^ Hair Style Trends For

^ Glamourous wedding hair accessories feather bridal cap by Once Wed

^ Deep ivory feather fascinator wedding hair accessories by Once Wed

^ Jennifer Behr Collection by Green Wedding shoes

^ Bridal Hair Piece by LoBoheme

^ Bridal feather flower by myrakim

^ Palm Springs Boudoir: Miss T Sarah K Chen

Cute, fun brides!! Short wedding dresses seems so fitting when it comes to outdoor weddings, DIY weddings, beach weddings, backyard weddings etc.  For starters it keeps the brides in a light, fun mood since they don’t have to hurl around tons of fabric all day long.  Wedding dresses can be heavy!  By the end of the day I felt like I was training for a marathon dragging a tire behind me.  Secondly it won’t attract all the dirt, grass, grease and sand onto the bottom of the dress.  Less cleaning bills.  Thirdly you can show off your awesome heels and legs!  Fourthly I think everyone in every shape and size looks good in a mini dress.  You can accentuate parts of your body with a big poofy wedding skirt, or hide awkward proportions that you always have trouble with, and feel good looking petite and cute!  I would make all these cute brides into a miniature figurine and display them on a shelf if I could… not in a creepy way. lol.

^ A Sweet Mountaintop Wedding Once Wed

^ Wedding Bee Pro

^ A Fantastically DIY Backyard Wedding from Offbeat Bride via My Wedding

^ Artsy day-after session by Tara Welch Photography via Pretty Little Weddings

^ Wedding dress short lace vintage bride via Once Wed

^ Eclectically Beautiful Wedding: Chic & Unique Bridal Style via bridal Musing

^ Boomin’ Vintage Circus Weddign via Bloomerism

^ A DIY Beach Wedding via Rock n Roll Bride

I LOVE circus carnival theme weddings!  I wasn’t the biggest fan of circus since I kind of have a phobia for clowns, but circus weddings I’d go any day!  I found all these etsy circus goodies via different artists.  Just to start you off with what you would need to create a circus wedding.  Wedding invitations and stationery will do a big part, since you can put in so many colors into such a small space.  I love the popping red against the cyan blues, so keeping those theme colors will help you create a big visual.  Of course you can keep it neutral or pastel colors with just a hint of redness here and there to keep it muted down, vintage circus wedding.

Engagement Party Invitations – Circus Theme by PlatypodeAlamode

Party Personalized Carnival Popcorn Boxes by 6elmdesigns

Photo Booth Prop Signs Vintage by akapertyfultings

Circus Poodle Candy Bags by PaperFever

Mini Top Hat Bride Garden Wedding  by HikariDesign

Circus marquee metal letters 18″ lighted custom finish included by WestVintageTradingCo

Circus/Carnival Party Favor Box PRINTABLE/DIY Decorations by lavenderlimedesigns

Candy Colored Circus Fabric Bunting by AFeteBeckons

For inspiration checkout these blogs

• Circus Wedding by 2 Days in the Rain
• Pierre & Christine’s Circus Themed, French Wedding
• Vintage circus wedding featured in wedluxe magazine! by This Little Bloom
• Vintage Circus Wedding Stacey + Josh by Weddings in Barcelona
• A Handmade Vintage Circus Wedding: Ashley + Ricky by Green Wedding Shoes
• And old world circus wedding: Erin + Brent by 100 Layer Cake

>>> Click here for “Carnival Wedding Theme” Pinterest Page <<<

Today I have collected the cutest, artsy vintage wedding invitations from Minted.com. They have everything from save-the-date cards, wedding invitations, RSVP cards, bridal shower invitations, menu cards, place card, etc. And even stationery for events other than wedding. Hope you enjoy!

Handmade wedding invitations and stationery can be fun and very affordable.  And what’s the most important factor for a successful handmade wedding invitations? FONTS.  Fonts alone can tell a theme, story, image, and a lot of logos are based on fonts.

It took me a while to put this together… but here it is! FREE 40 wedding fonts for DIY Weddingers from dafont.com.  Remember although most of them are free for personal use, make sure to read their policy.  Some of them are donationware, so if you can spare a few bucks for the author I’m sure it’ll be much appreciated.

I’ll try to update more fonts from other font websites down the road.  These are all from dafont.com

1. Channel by Måns Grebäck
2. Coneria Script by Måns Grebäck
3. Mardian by Måns Grebäck
4. Sverige Script by Måns Grebäck
5. Contribute by Fontscafe.com
6. Commerical Script
7. Mirella by Intellecta Design
8. Scriptina
9. Bluemin Ralph
10. Quickier by Måns Grebäck

11. Brain Flower by Denise Bentulan
12. Jenna Sue by jennasuedesignco
13. Cinnamon Cake by Brittney Murphy
14. Ice Cream Sandwich by Skyhaven Fonts
15. Just the Way You Are by Kimberly Geswein
16. The Only Exception by Kimberly Geswein
17. Stars from Our Eyes by Kimberly Geswein
18. Sweetie Pie  by Ammy K
19. Strawberry Avalanche by Skyhaven Fonts
20. Dandelion in the Spring by Brittney Murphy

21. The Dead Saloon by gwizsk
22. Western by James L. DeVriese
23. Duality by Typodermic Fonts
24. Showguide
25. Anderson Four Feather Falls by Steve Ferrera
26. Bosox by Lee Gordon
27. Hoedown by Dieter Steffmann
28. Western Swagger by KC Fonts
29. High On Fire by Billy Argel
30. Coolock Black by Squack

31. Copasetic by Nick’s Fonts
32. Skyliner by Skyhaven Fonts
33. Dymaxion Script by Nick’s Fonts
34. Riesling by Bright Ideas
35. Budmo by Typodermic Fonts
36. Carrington by Bright Ideas
37. Lemondrop by Lauren Thompson
38. Airstream by Nick’s Fonts
39. CM Chipped Paint by Christopher Means
40. Hamburger Heaven by Nick’s Fonts