Over the weekend, my mom and I threw a bridal shower for my cousin’s wife-to-be and I thought I’d show you a few of the handmade details.
First, the invitations. We found these Martha Stewart brand wedding cake stickers on clearance at Home Goods for $1 (for 20!) and thought they were perfect.
I mounted them to some silvery cardstock circles. Easy and elegant.
I made a simple banner from cardstock and a some pearl trim my grandma had. Sorry I don’t have a better photo of the finished product. I have realized I am incapable of taking decent photos immediately preceding and/or during a party.
I printed the letters two to a sheet and cut them lengthwise. I glued on some scraps of grey cardstock on the bottoms, then I folded each paper and used a sewing machine to secure them onto the pearls.
For favors, we made wedding cake-shaped cookies, but they ended up looking a little like white Devo hats.
We packaged them up, and they looked better, but we decided they weren’t good enough to stand on their own.
So the day before the shower, I scrambled to make a second favor, some decoupaged picture frames. It was a small shower with only 11 attendees, so it wasn’t an impossible task. I’m kind of hating myself for not taking better photos of the frames. Each one had a different black and cream pattern and they looked really good all together.
You might appreciate the frames even more seeing what they started out as. I lucked out finding these frames in the Target dollar section ($2.50 for a pack of three). Juvenille and cheap-looking as-is, but they were flat (perfect for decoupage), had real glass and I loved the round openings.
