DIY Embroidered wedding invitation

Commitment: 30-45 minutes per wedding invitation

Cost: $32 per 50, $ 0.64

Supplies:

crane lettra 110 lb cardstock in fluorescent white, 8 ½ '' by 11''

eggplant coloured cardstock, 8 ½ '' by 11''

paper cutter
rubber stamp

dye-based ink pad to match or coordinate with your floss color

piece of thick cardboard or a self-healing cutting mat

paper piercing tool

embroidery floss to coordinate with coloured cardstock

embroidery needle

scissors

single sided tape

double-sided tape

 

Directions:

1. start this project off by cutting the cardstocks to size. With you paper cutter, trim the white cardstock to 5'' by 7'' and the eggplant cardstock to 5 ½ '' by 7 ¼''
2. print your invitation wording on the white cardstock, leaving a 3'' margin on the bottom of the page. This blank area will be where the embroidery goes later on. Note: if your rubber stamp is smaller or larger than 3''. you will need top adjust your bottom margin accordingly. To set up your invitation for printing, open WORD and from the Page Setup Menu, select Custom Page Size from the Settings options. Set the custom page size for 5'' wide by 7''. Set the margin spacing to 0.25'' for the left and right margins. For the top, set the margin spacing to 0.25. For the bottom, set the spacing to 3''
3. enter your invitation wording and print it on the crane lettra cardstock.
4. In this step you will be adding a rubber-stamp image onto the invitation to serve as a template for your embroidery. To ink a rubber stamp, gently tap it several times on the surface of the ink pad to get the entire rubber image evenly inked. Firmly press the stamp onto the invitation where you'd like the image to go. Don't twist or move the stamp when press down; you will smudge the image. Lift the stamp straight off the paper.
5. Next step is to create holes for the embroidery with the paper piercing tool. Place the stamp invitation on top of the thick piece cardboard or self-healing cutting mat. You are creating some elevation so that the needle of the piercing tool has space to go all the way through the cardstock. Working your way around the entire outline of the stamp image, poke holes about ¼ ''. make sure not to get closer than 1/8 ''to the edges of the cardstock; you will risk ripping the paper if you do.
6. Next, thread your embroidery needle. Embroidery floss comes in long bundles of 6 strands that are twisted together, called skeins. Unwind 2 long strands of embroidery floss from the skein and thread them through the embroidery needle. Knot the ends as you would a regular needle and thread. You are ready to get embroidering.
7. Start by picking an area to concentrate on like starting from the bottom left and working upward and outward in small sections. Begin by passing the threaded needle from underside through one of the holes. Next, thread the needle down through the whole next to it. Pass the needle back up through the first hole. What you are doing is called the backstitch. It creates a solid line of stitching. Move through the remaining holes, using the backstitch technique until you run out of floss or finish an area of the design. At the points where you need to stop and rethread or move to another section, push the needle through a hole so that it's on the bottom side of the card. Snip the floss and use a bit of clear tape to hold the cut floss in place. Rethread your needle and start where you left off.
8. The back side of the invitation will be a little bit messy so we will be creating a mat so the back side is concealed. Apply strips of double-sided tape to the back of the invitation and firmly press the invitation onto the eggplant-colored cardstock, centering it from top to bottom and

Quilled Snowflake Save the Date Cards

Quilled Snowflake Save the Date Cards

Time: 5 hours per 25 cards

Cost: $48 for 25, $1.92 each.

Supplies:

white cardstock, pearl white 10'' by 5''

double-sided tape

silver cardstock 4 ¾ '' by 4 ¾''

blue cardstock 4 ½ '' by 4 ½ ''

lightweight white cardstock under 80 lb. 12'' by 12''

paper cutter

quilling tool

liquid paper adhesive

spray adhesive

glitter

1. fold the 10'' by 5 '' white cardstock in half to create 5'' by 5'' tented card. Apply double-sided tape to the back of the silver cardstock and adhere it to the front of the white card, centering it to top to bottom and left to right. Now, add double-sidedtape tape to the back of the blue cardstock and, centering it, adhere that to the front of the silver cardstock.
2. Cut a piece of the light weight12'' by 12'' white cardstock into ¼ '' wide strips. From these strips you will need to cut the following lengths: 5 strips of 6'' long; 12 strips of 3'' long; 4 strips of 2'' long
3. take a strip of 6'' by ¼ '' cardstock and insert the end into the opening at the end of the quilling tool. Bring the tool to the end of the paper and beginning rolling the paper around the end of the tool. Roll it all the way up and then let go. The circle will loosen a bit. Apply a tiny bit of liquid paper adhesive to the loosen end and glue it down on the body of the circle. Remove the piece form the quilling tool. The piece will serve as the center of your snowflake. The remaining quills will build upon it.
4. The next step is to create small teadrop shapes. This is done by creating circles and pinching one end. Roll one of the 3'' strips on the quilling tool. Adhere the loose end to the body and remove the piece from the quilling tool. Using your index finger and thumb, pinch one end of the circle to create a teardrop shape. Create 4 teardrop shapes for this snowflake.
5. You will now make a marquis shape. It's a circle with both ends flattened to create a shape that looks like an eye. Roll one of the 2 '' strips onto the quilling tool. Adhere the loose end of the body and remove the piece from the quilling tool. Using your thumb and index finger, pinch one side to create a teardrop, then pinch the other side. Create 4 marquis shapes for this snowflake.
6. The next step is to create scrolls. Gently fold a 6'' strip in half. Roll each end toward the fold. It'll end up looking like a fancy heart. You will need 4 scrolls.
7. Now we are going to create the arms. The arms are made from 3'' strips. Roll 1 end around the quilling tool, about 3 full turns. Release it from the quilling tool and roll the other end about 12 times, until the total lenght of the piece is about 1'' long. Release it from the tool. Repeat on another 3 '' strip. To finish up the arms you will need to glue 2 piece back to back to create single arm. You will need total 4 arms
8. it's time to assemble the rolled paper. Let's start with the center piece, the first round you created. Using liquid paper adhesive, glue the arms pieces at the widest end. To the center circle. The edges of the loops should be butted next to each other.
9. Next, take a scroll and glue it onto those small loops of the arms. Gently pull the scrolls out until it touches the arms. Glue the pieces together where they meet.
10. Take one of the teardrops and glue it to the middle of the scroll. Gently pull the scrolls over to meet
11. the teardrop, and glue them together. Repeat on all sides.
12. The final touch is to glue the marquis pieces into the indentations at the top of the loops of each arm
13. in a well-ventilated place, spray the snowflakes with spray aerosol adhesive and sprinkle with glitter. Shake off the excess glitter

DIY crystal-accented wedding table number

Time: 3 hours

Cost: $46 for 20, $2.30 each

Supplies:

• white card-stock cut 4'' by 6''
• pencil
• rhinestone adhesive
• tweezers
• 4-mm to 6-mm clear flat-back rhinestones, about 80 pieces per table number, depending on your design.
• Double-sided tape
• pattern paper, cut to 4 ½ by 6 ½ ''
• black card-stock, cut to 5 ''' by 7 ''
• hole punch
• ¼ '' wide ribbon, 12'' long

Directions:

1. Open WORD and from the Page Setup menu, select Custom Page Size from the Settings options. Set the page size for 4'' wide by 6''. Set the margin spacing to 0.25 '' for the left and right margins, for the top set the spacing to 0.25 '' and for the bottom to o.50''.
2. Enter your table number in a pretty font, center it on the page. Print
3. with a pencil, lightly draw a design on the card-stock where you would like to add your rhinestones bling. Do make sure the design is open and wide enough for the rhinestones.
4. Trace the design with rhinestones adhesive, using small dots along the pencil lines you created.
5. With tweezers, pick up a rhinestone and gently set it onto the glue. Press down to secure it in place. Let the glue dry according.
6. Add strips of double-sided tape to the back of the white card-stock piece. Center it over a piece of the patterned paper and press down to secure it in place. Next, add double-sided tape to the back of the patterned paper stack and center it over a piece of black card-stock. Press it firmly in place.
7. The final step is to punch a hole near the top of the table number with a hole punch, centered about ½ '' from the top edge. Thread a length of ribbon through and tie to your flower arrangement.