It was a vintage garden wedding and everything was vegan (some was also gluten free). Here are some pictures of the food with all the details of the wedding on my "A Very Vegan Wedding" page.
Gluten free Cake Pops by Stick It! Bakery
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Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
A Vegan Wedding
Sorry for the break! This Christmas was a very busy time what with my wedding and all but on the good side it means I have loads of blogging back log!
It was a vintage garden wedding and everything was vegan (some was also gluten free). Here are some pictures of the food with all the details of the wedding on my "A Very Vegan Wedding" page.
It was a vintage garden wedding and everything was vegan (some was also gluten free). Here are some pictures of the food with all the details of the wedding on my "A Very Vegan Wedding" page.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Vintage Wedding & Food Signs
For my upcoming wedding a lot of DIY was involved due to a very tight budget.
I am made the signs to the wedding and the signs for the food myself.
VintageWedding & Food Signs
You will need;
Frames
Craft knife or guillotine (or just scissors)
Double sided tape
Paper with your design on it
Tea bags
Baking tray (make sure you can lye your paper flat)
Cardboard (white or cream) - for food signs
Method;
I found some cheap frames at a homewares place (House2Home).
For the design on the sign I found a vintage style boarder I liked online and then copied it into a Word document. Then I added a Text Box and chose a vintage font to write what I wanted and centred it.
For the wedding signs I made them A4 size to fit the frames.
For the food signs I made them around 9cm x 4cm.
Once you have your printed signs cut the small ones out with craft knife or guillotine (or scissors if you have a very steady hand).
In the baking add some tea bags (maybe 4-6) and add water (cold or luke warm is fine) and let the tea steep until water is dark, around 10 minutes. The water should look very dark but the paper will be much lighter. Take out the tea bags.
Submerge the paper and carboard into the tea mixture and make sure if you are doing more than one at a time that they are not touching each other cause they will leave marks.
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After 30mins take them out and lay flat on a towel to dry. If you want them darker then just leave in for longer. You can leave for up to 24 hours, just remember the paper will be very delicate when you take it out. Once it's dried put in between book pages over night to flatten.
Once flat and dry the wedding signs can be put into the frames (use double sided tape so that it doesn't move around).
Attached the food signs to the cardboard with double sided tape - you want enough room above the sign to fold over to make it stand up. Use the guillotine to cut sides and bottom to size. Fold in the middle and there you have it!
You can do something similar with food toppers by sticking the two sides of the sign onto a toothpick (picture below from Sweetly Scrapped Art, where we got ours).
I am made the signs to the wedding and the signs for the food myself.
VintageWedding & Food Signs
You will need;
Frames
Craft knife or guillotine (or just scissors)
Double sided tape
Paper with your design on it
Tea bags
Baking tray (make sure you can lye your paper flat)
Cardboard (white or cream) - for food signs
Method;
I found some cheap frames at a homewares place (House2Home).
For the design on the sign I found a vintage style boarder I liked online and then copied it into a Word document. Then I added a Text Box and chose a vintage font to write what I wanted and centred it.
For the wedding signs I made them A4 size to fit the frames.
For the food signs I made them around 9cm x 4cm.
Once you have your printed signs cut the small ones out with craft knife or guillotine (or scissors if you have a very steady hand).
In the baking add some tea bags (maybe 4-6) and add water (cold or luke warm is fine) and let the tea steep until water is dark, around 10 minutes. The water should look very dark but the paper will be much lighter. Take out the tea bags.
Submerge the paper and carboard into the tea mixture and make sure if you are doing more than one at a time that they are not touching each other cause they will leave marks.
.JPG)
After 30mins take them out and lay flat on a towel to dry. If you want them darker then just leave in for longer. You can leave for up to 24 hours, just remember the paper will be very delicate when you take it out. Once it's dried put in between book pages over night to flatten.
Once flat and dry the wedding signs can be put into the frames (use double sided tape so that it doesn't move around).
You can do something similar with food toppers by sticking the two sides of the sign onto a toothpick (picture below from Sweetly Scrapped Art, where we got ours).
Saturday, 17 November 2012
DIY Marmalade Wedding Favours
My wedding in December is a very DIY affair (code for budget). For the bonbonniere I decided jam would be a nice homemade touch. I may have underestimated how long 45 jars of marmalade would take but I now have enough...even though couples have to share :)
I just used jar collected from different preserved items. The cloth was cut with pinking shears, attached with an elastic band and finished off with twine. The labels were a design from Gerson Curse on Etsy which I printed onto label paper and cut out. Recipe for the marmalade is here.
I just used jar collected from different preserved items. The cloth was cut with pinking shears, attached with an elastic band and finished off with twine. The labels were a design from Gerson Curse on Etsy which I printed onto label paper and cut out. Recipe for the marmalade is here.
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Baby one for my flower girl :)
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