Guest favors

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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Today I'm off to help at the wedding of our pastor's daughter, Stacey, to her beau, Chris Jogi. My mission is to help the photographer with photographing the families whilst keeping the bride and groom out of each other's view. Should be fun!
I made 150 little wedding favors that hold 4 Hershey's nuggets. See the example to the right in this photo. I used the new Bigz die in the SU Holiday Mini (120903) to create the top and bottom scalloped pieces. The box is a 3 1/4" by 5 1/2" piece of card stock scored at 1/2" around three sides and at 2 3/4" and 3 1/4".  The mats are square: 2 1/2" of DSP, 2" black, 1 3/4" pink, and the art piece is 1 1/2". The stamp is from Stampendous, found at a local craft store, stamped with Jet Black SU StazOn (101406). I cut little strips of DSP, 1" x 3" to wrap around the candies, then sealed the box with 3" of ribbon as I assembled it.

The card was for Stacey's shower, made with a retired color of SU card stock cut 4 1/4" x 11" with a top fold scored at 5 1/2". I ran the top portion through my SU Big Shot (113439) using the SU Elegant Lines embossing folder (119277), embellished with SU Black Flourish Designer Jewels (120987) and SU Black 5/8" Satin Ribbon (117285), stamped with SU Black Classic Ink (101179) using SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (115370).

It took me quite awhile to wrap my brain around the Big Shot. I had to understand how it worked and I had to justify the cost. I didn't want to invest in something that, initially, I thought I'd only use occasionally. Well, I use it on almost every card I make now. My husband, Cecil, often comments on how handy it is to have the right tool for the job he's doing; whether it's fixing the car or for a home project. I really understand what he means by that as I create my different projects, and I'm so glad to have that Big Shot.

A tip for using jewel embellishments: Use a pair of tweezers to pick the jewel off the paper using a little twisting motion. If you pull straight up sometimes the sticky stays on the paper rather than coming with the jewel. If the jewels are on a strip of adhesive, snip them apart with little scissors as you pick them up.  I have a 6" curved tip tweezer that came with my serger. I've seen these tweezers in the sewing or yarn sections of local sewing or craft stores.   

Have to wash that ink off my fingers, make sure the glitter is off my nose and head for the wedding. Hope you are enjoying this lovely autumn weather in your spot of the world.

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