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Candy Wrapper Wedding Favors

August 15, 2011 By Connie | 4 Comments

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We had our downline meeting yesterday…our Convention Round Up…always fun to see stamping friends and do great M&T projects.

So…we are on Part 5 of my wedding projects. This was the most time-consuming of all of them. We did over 240 of these favor boxes…somehow we lost count and actually did about 30 more than we needed! But…at the time, we didn't have an exact number of how many were coming. Allie and her mom were a big help with these. Allie and I sat and cut and embossed them all, then a couple of Allie's cousins helped to put them together. I went back and tied on the tag with ribbon. We filled them with the miniature Smooth and Creamy pastel candies…YUMMY!

I used the Candy Wrapper L Bigz Die in the Big Shot with Melon Mambo cardstock. I then put it back thru the Big Shot with the Elegant Lines Impressions Folder to emboss. TIP: Before putting in to emboss, I creased all the main score lines to make sure that the embossing folder didn't obliterate the score lines. This made it easier to put them together.

I wrapped the Navy Polka Dot Ribbon around and tied on a Decorative Label Punch with their monogram. We had a second tag underneath that said "Thank you for sharing in our special day" that you can't see in this picture.

Here is what 220 of them look like in a plastic tub ready to go to the reception!

Love this picture…Ross's first look at Allie in her BEAUTIFUL dress coming down the aisle! She is gorgeous! The Best Man standing next to Ross is Adam, our oldest son who got married last year. The other groomsman smiling is Brad, Allie's twin sister's husband.

Then Ross and Allie at the altar. These photos were taken by a friend at the wedding.

Allie and my other daughter-in-law, Beth. Isn't her dress GORGEOUS!!! I have two beautiful daughter-in-laws now!

More photos tomorrow…are you sick of wedding stuff yet? lol!

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Wedding Reception Favors

August 9, 2010 By Connie | 3 Comments

Thought you might like to see what I spent the weekend working on for the Wedding Reception (part 3) next weekend. As you may already know, my son was married in Cancun in June, we had one reception for her family in Wisconsin last month and the final reception is in Ohio next weekend. This is the one my husband and I are hosting! I decided (last minute!) to do some type of wedding favor. I made 60 of these over the weekend, unfortunately no stamping on them, but I thought you'd still like to see them!

I found some shell candy molds at my local store and asked my upline, Candy, to show me how to do molded chocolates. She ran over Saturday morning, showed me what to do, and I went to work. I ended up making 200 of the smaller shells and 60 of the large starfish in both milk and white chocolate on Saturday. Each Medium Cello Bag has a large starfish and 3 of the smaller shells.

Sunday I made the tags. Unfortunately, the Two Tags die was too large, so I ended up using a punch tag that I had. This was one of my favorite photos from the wedding in Cancun. I photoshop'd it to a smaller size and added the Adam & Beth, 6-18-2010 date on the front, then printed them out in 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 size. I layered them onto Crumb Cake punched tags, punched a hole in the top with my Crop-A-Dile, then tied them with the Kraft Satin Ribbon (non-SU)…same as I used on the wedding invitations. I think they turned out really fun and I can't wait for the kids to see them!

Oh…and while I was waiting for the candy to chill between fillings, I was able to roll all my silverware in napkins…so another project done! It was a productive weekend! Woohoo! Now if I could only find some short candles in their Cornflower color, I could finish up the centerpieces! lol!

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Wedding Favors

June 23, 2010 By Connie | 10 Comments

Here is a picture of Beth and I sharing a Mimosa toast before the Wedding. Yes…she is TALL…I felt like a shrimp around her family all week…Beth is 5'11, her sister and mom around 5'10", and her dad is well over 6"5". No wonder Beth played basketball…of course, her dad was the coach, too! Being only 5'3", I looked up a lot this weekend! lol! My son, Adam, is 6'1" so they actually look great together!

I know most of you have seen the little straw baskets that are going around made with the Baskets & Blooms XL die! I loved the Tropical look to them! I wanted to make some in the wedding colors…Kraft, Cornflower Blue and White. I thought the Kraft (now called Crumb Cake) made a nice beach basket. I ran the two basket pieces thru the Big Shot with the Lattice Impressions Folder and I added the stripe trim pieces from the die on the front and back in the Shimmer Cornflower Blue (non-SU) and Shimmer White cardstock. I made a little open-top box for inside to hold the Small Cello bag filled with Blueberry and Vanilla Jelly Belly candies. I tied it closed with some Satin Kraft Ribbon (non-SU).

I printed the Beth & Adam, Riviera Maya, Mexico with the wedding date 6.18.2010 on the computer, then punched with the 1 3/8 Circle Punch. I layered it on more Cornflower Blue Shimmer cardstock punched with the Scallop Circle Punch. These were placed at the place settings at the Wedding Reception.

I was SO pleased with how they turned out! Everyone loved them, too! I meant to take a picture of all 55 of them, but forgot. I took them flat with Sticky Strip adhered to the box inside, so all I had to do was peel off the tape and put them together and put in the bag of candy. However, that night we were putting them together, I fell FLAT on my hands and knees when crossing a little wood bridge. Banged up my knee pretty good…thought for sure I'd be limping for the wedding. Luckily, the ice pack helped and kept the swelling down. I was able to move around pretty good…except for going up steps! I still have a nice bruise on my knee…my dress hid it, though. But…that's why I forgot to take pictures of the finished ones!

Here is a picture of their first dance at the Reception. It was held outdoors on the Boardwalk right next to the beach. They had tables of 8 set up and a big area for dancing. Behind them is the Buffet and bar set up…everything tasted great!

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