Bridal Shower Part 2!

I want to show you two more fun ideas from the bridal shower I showed you yesterday.  In case you missed it, here's the post. 

This first one was my mom's idea (thank you, mom).  She's super crafty, too, and she thought of this beautiful centerpiece and put it together.

It's such a fun idea.  Just use a metal dress-form that you can buy at Hobby Lobby or other home decor stores, wrap it in white tulle, and add a colored sash of tulle to the waist.  Pin a second long piece of tulle to the dress as the "train" and either stitch on a piece of lace to the bottom using a basting stitch, or pin from the inside.  Then we added a rhinestone flourish that you can buy at any craft store.  Flourishes come already like that, just peel and stick!  The dress-form was really tall and the dress really made a statement on the table.

The other decor item I wanted to show you is the cute pom-poms.

 My friend Andrea showed me how to make these (the yellow ones).  You can find the instructions on Martha Stewart's website HERE.  They're super simple!  You can hang them, put them on shelves, make mini ones, and they're so cute!  These big ones took 8-10 pieces of tissue paper each.  You'll see these again at my daughter's birthday party, coming up soon!

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-Tiffany

Bridal Shower

I absolutely love parties!  I love hosting them, I love having people over, I love the atmosphere.....and I love the FOOD! :)  I enjoy throwing parties for family and friends, and recently I had the chance to invite some new friends over when I hosted a bridal shower for a sweet friend, and I wanted to share some fun ideas with you using the L Letterpress and Lifestyle Crafts dies.

I love the look of the Flourish printing plates- I think they look so elegant.  What better thing to use them for than a bridal shower!  You could totally change this up a bit and make these for wedding invitations as well.  These were the invitations for the shower.  I also used the Calligraphy printing plates for the monogram, and the Splendid printing plates for the words.

 The design for the card is courtesy of the A7 Card Collection dies.  The die cuts the front of the card and also cuts the doors.  What a fun way to open an invitation!

The monogram was letterpressed and then cut out using the Nesting Frames 4 die set, which is my all-time favorite die set in the Possibilities Release.

 

I made special bags for some of the food items- these were cinnamon chips that had a fruit "salsa" dip.  Sounds weird, I know, but so SO good!
I used the paper bag die, trellis border die, and nesting blossom dies for these bags.

I also used more nesting frames for the food labels.  Isn't nesting frames 3 elegant?  Love it!

I wrapped the cupcakes in the Botanical cupcake liner die

I also wanted to find a cute way to give advice to the bride, so I had each guest select a flower when they arrived and had them write their best marriage advice for the bride and add it to a "bouquet."

-Tiffany