Category — Handmade

Look at this fabulous, easy, DIY thank you card!! Who would have thought… All those veggie stumps I throw out could have transformed to this beauty.  I must try it out very soon.  Check Fab Housewife’s post for more details here.

Valentines day is right around the corner! Here’s a Valentine’s day special tutorial of how to make a paper cake display.  I wanted to make a big fake cake since baking a cake, cupcakes and other Valentine’s day goodies seems to be too much for just my husband and I.  I wanted something big to have a visual impact, without effecting too much of our diet!  So I made a paper cake to display my heart cake toppers.  Enjoy!

I’m loving this color palette from Green Wedding Shoes! Using old vintage book pages as decor elements.  A big plus for low cost wedding brides!  You can get lots of vintage books for almost free at any flea markets or thrift stores.  Checkout the full post for other old book wedding decor ideas.

Easy, fast, fun way to spice up your party!  Hang these garlands all over your wall, hang it from the ceiling, over your tables, over your chandeliers, doors, everywhere!  You’ll be amazed how one single garland will change the whole space into an awesome party space.

^ DIY Miniature Fabric Flower Garland

^ Tissue Paper Garland Tutorial

^ DIY: How to craft a Ribbon Wall Garland

^ DIY Heart Garland

^ DIY Inspiration: Flowers & Birds Garland

^ Sewn paper garland

^ DIY DECOR | Star Garland

^ DIY Dixie Cup Garland

^ Wedding Garland – A Super Easy DIY Project

^Paper Dots Garland

^ PARTY DIY :: A FAB FRINGE GARLAND!

^ Geometric Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Garland DIY

The moment you all have been waiting for! The Little Canopy’s handmade flower petal curtain backdrop!! I have uploaded the 10 feet long curtain here and the 7 feet long curtain here.  Due to it’s long strands, it is packaged per strands, and it does not come with a bar to attach it to.  I’ll be glad to add that bar for you, but it’ll just be extra shipping fee on your part for no good reason.  These are all hand sewn with invisible thread, with silk flower petals in pink gradient.  I’ll be glad to have it all in one color as well! I made 7 feet and 10 feet, one for budget bride, and the other for a venue with high ceilings.  Long enough for it to gather on the floor.  It’s actually best for outdoor weddings, letting each strand move around with the wind.

Ask me any questions, and check them out in the Etsy Shop!

Hello!  Continued from the tutorials How to make Paper Flowers, I thought I’d make another post concentrating on roses.  If you’re not sure on some steps of any tutorials, feel free to ask me for advice!

^ DIY Paper Rose Templates

^ Paper Rose Tutorial

^ How to Make Enchanted Paper Roses

^ Watercolor paper rose

^ Paper Flowers DIY

^ Photo by Momichka, Tutorial by Paula’s Paper Playground

^ DIY Paper Rose Wedding Bouquet

^ DIY Story Book Paper Roses

How gorgeous are these paper ranunculus flower bouquet from Sunny & Stumpy??  I would love to learn how to make them.  Luckily they sell the paper flower template in the Etsy shop.

^ Origami Wedding Decor

^ Charlotte NC Wedding of Ashley and Mark

^ Origami Crane Themed Wedding: 2 Ways

^ Julie & Sam

^ A Beautiful Washington D. C. Fusion Wedding from Offbeat Bride

^ Origami Table Setting

^ The DIY Origami Heart Invitations are in the mail

^ Orange Park Wedding by Browne Photography

^ Origami roses for my wedding

^ Marissa + Brandon at Nestldown

^ DIY vintage chic wedding

^ Romantic wedding centrepiece

^ DIY Picnic Wedding: 500 Paper Cranes Under The Willow Tree 2

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

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