Ridiculously easy paint chip-inspired wedding crafts
My husband and I chose our wedding colors by comparing stashes of paint chips we grabbed from the hardware store. But what if paint chips WERE the palette?
You can make your own carnival midway-style illuminated letters
Who knows where my love of midway illuminated lettering comes from, but it’s definitely fed by my addiction to Disneyland. More specifically, the part of the park called “Main Street, USA,” which consists of gift shops and ice cream parlors dressed up to look like an early 20th Century bustling downtown street on speed. Too shiny not to love. But I digress…
Typically an illuminated letter like this is made of metal, is very heavy and would cost you a pretty penny. I knew I wanted something to light up at my wedding, so I figured I’d make my own midway letters. You can too! And there are power tools involved!
3 ways to hack your IKEA cake server
I picked up this set of plain, white, plastic cake servers at IKEA for $5.99. I cut my cake with these bad jacksons and all was well. But almost everything is a blank canvas to a crafter, especially when it’s priced affordably, so I’ve put together three customized serving sets fit for an offbeat celebration. These were all achieved in one evening using materials found at a major craft store.
A step-by-step guide to making your OWN wedding album with Blurb books
A few months ago I waxed poetic about the amazingness of Blurb books on Offbeat Mama, and it dawned on me that sharing this knowledge on Bride could only do good things for everyone reading.
I recently made a wedding album from a set of photo booth shots, and figured that’d be the perfect thing to share with you guys.