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   Feature Friday – Wedding crafts book Posted by Jo 
June 26, 2009 
Jo
 

completebookweddingcrafts_lgChica and I have both been married for quite some time but we continually get requests for DIY wedding ideas from friends, family and our readers.  We try to keep up with the latest wedding trends and come up with our own unique wedding ideas.  To this end, I am constantly on the lookout for new inspiration, so I was quite pleased to when I picked up a copy of The Complete Book of Wedding Crafts (Quarry Books).  It’s filled with DIY ideas ranging from invitations to favors.  It even has a section showing you how to do calligraphy.

What really made me like this book is that the ideas are in no way limited to weddings.  In fact, in an upcoming post, I will show you how one of this book’s projects inspired my baby announcements.  Yep, I went from wedding book idea to baby announcement!

Another great example of the easily-adaptable projects is this fantastic picture frame made from polymer clay. This picture frame idea would be great for a new baby, vacation, new home or anniversary present.  It all depends on your color choices as well as what you choose to make the impressions in the clay.  The book gives you step-by-step instructions for creating your own as it does for all of the projects.

metallic frame

3 comments so far:

  1. ray cruz said: (March 7th, 2010 at 9:31 am)

    hi chica and jo.. do you have any suggestions on how to do “homemade or personalized pillows which would serve as give aways for our wedding… thanks again for the help…

  2. Chica said: (March 7th, 2010 at 9:50 am)

    Hi Ray. Pillows are a very unique idea for a wedding favor! I can think of two nice ways to personalize a lot of pillows without spending a lot of money. One would be to use paint and stencils. The other would be to use iron-on transfer paper to put a design on the fabric before making the pillows. Hope that helps. Good luck!

  3. ray cruz said: (March 8th, 2010 at 7:35 am)

    hello chica… interesting ideas as ever and as always.. i obviously love it… many thanks chica..

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