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I know you ladies have fabulous ideas and I need some help! I am helping with a bridal shower and have been asked if I have any ideas for stamped favors we could give to each of the guests without it being too pricey. Can you help me with some ideas because I just can't think of anything. Thanks in advance for your help!
__________________ - Julie
Philippians 4:13, "I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength."
Not sure what you consider to be too pricey, but we recently had a shower for a friend and did a number of different things:
1) Yankee Votive in a cello bag, tied with ribbon & a matching silk flower plus a Stamped TAG
2) Painted top rim of terra cotta flower pot & put primroses in. Stamped a little sign that said Congratulation Mary & Billy put it onto a length of dowel & stuck into the soil.
3) Bought a package of the little round tins with glass tops, filled with tiny candies, and tied a ribbon around the perimeter/outside edge (so it hung like an ornament). Stamped the center & circle punched it out then glued to the glass. The punch was a smaller circle than the glass lid so that you could still see some of the candy when the stamped partwas glued down.
hope these help!
If you need more ideas, email me - I bought a shower favor book at Michael's!
Sour cream containers are soo cute, filled with a little bit of candy or bath beads, etc.
Here are the instructions, curtesy of The Cat's Meow:
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cut a quarter sheet (or a half sheet, depending on how much you want to put in them) of letter size paper or vellum, vellum CS is awesome for this. Stamp on one side of the vellum or wheel on it, anyway you like. roll the wider side and tape it, it will look like a toilet paper roll. tape the seem after rolling it to keep it in place. pinch one end one way and pinch the other side the opposite direction and crimp each 3 crimps to bind it. (i don't give the best instructions verbally.....). One side will have sticky strip or double sided tape before you crimp and another will not have tape, it will be open. fill it with whatever candy, Easter grass or leave empty. Punch a hole on untaped end after edge is crimped and tie with ribbon or cord to hold closed until the lucky recipient opens it to get candy out if you put any. HTH, PM me if you have a ? I have to get used to giving instructions verbally, I'm a new demo. I'm sure there is a pic somewhere on this site.
Does the bride have a theme to her wedding or is the shower having a theme? Sometimes it is easy to get ideas from what they are planning.
Flower packets inside of a cute card with a little phrase is cute.
The sour cream pkts are cute.
And really for me, anything with a candle or candies is a hit! :oops:
When I made mine, I cheated and used a copier. I first typed up their names and wedding date. Then, I stamped sandals from one of last year's selabration sets (Sorry not good enough to memorize stamp set names). Colored it in. Took it to the copier again and shrunk it to fit nicely in the magent. The words were magnified so you could read it quite nicely.
If I get to it soon, I'll take a picture to show you what I mean and the effect of shrinking my stamp. They were really really inexpensive. Magnets (approx 30 for $1 at Hobby Lobby) and then large heavy duty craft magents (50 for $7 at Michael's). I used Crystal Effects to attach it all together.
What about glass charms? Use PolyShrink to make the charm. You can get the wire rings that go around the glass stem as Michael's, Hobby Lobby or any craft store that sells jewelry/beads. I have a sample I could try to scan or take a picture and send or upload if you want/need to see what I am taking about. I am making 200 glass charms for my cousin’s wedding for her wedding favors.
You are all coming up with some great ideas! I'd like to get as many ideas as I can, and then I will take them to my other friend who is helping. Thanks!
__________________ - Julie
Philippians 4:13, "I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength."
For a shower last year I used Hershey's miniatures and stamped an address label to go around it.
We had them randomly around the tables but you could package them in cello bags and put a topper on them.
The shower was in June but I bought the candy right after Easter so I got it for 50 or 75% off.
They were really pretty spring colors.
__________________ Missy
We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop? ~ Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Bridal Shower Favors
