Evolution of Favor Presentation

My favors are very personal to me. They may be just coasters to everyone else but since I slaved over every single one of them, they're my labor of love. Getting inspiration from Style Me Pretty DIY coasters, I embarked on my own DIY coaster quest. I bought 3 boxes of 4"x4" tiles for 12.80 each from Home Depot and the other materials from Michael's, such things like glue, mod podge, scrapbook paper and felt for backing. I followed the instructions and came up with these. I've shown these before but just for a recap: I thought they needed a little sprucing up
I still wasn't altogether happy with them since they really didn't say tiffany and weren't aqua at all. Anyway for hosting the Paper and More giveaway, I was given a $25 gift certificate and I used it to purchase a pack of Tiffany Blue text paper for only $6.99. I had no idea what I was going to use them for at the time. After agonizing over it for a while, this is what I came up with.Now if this doesn't say Tiffany or Aqua, I don't know what will. I'm so proud of them. The paper is so smooth and pretty. I almost don't want to give them away. Siiigggghhhhh! but I will. These are just for the ladies though.

The gents will receive a bottle of this:
Miniature bottles of Appleton Jamaican Rum since Mr. Muscle has a Jamaican background.
I'll put them in an organza aqua bag with a few hershey's kisses. What's better than chocolates and rum?
Favors done- again.

A Few Projects

Remember the goodies I got from Michael's last week, well i've been a busy bee these last few days. I used the white wrapping paper and the teal ribbon to wrap the coasters that I made before. This was their presentation, I thought they needed a little sprucing up

For those of you who don't want to go back to the previous post, I made these myself borrowing the idea from Style Me Pretty. It was a relatively easy project but considering I had to make favors for 80 guests with four per guest, it was a very tedious process and I was very happy when I finished my last coaster. I used the leftover damask to use as a backing for the guest's names. I will print each guest's name on some white card stock and stick it onto the damask backing therefore making a place card and favor in one. Voila!

I also did a semi mock up of my table. Click on the picture to get a better view of it. The dishes, glasses and flatware are all from my home so the actual ones will most likely be different, the centerpiece is my cardbox, (just for trial purposes). The only things really that are going to be used for sure are the tablecloths and the napkins. I really like the look of it and i'm strongly leaning towards a flowerless table. I can't bear the thought of all these flowers dying after my wedding. I'm just silly that way. If I go the stacked box route, they will be a little smaller and shorter than the one shown here.

If I go the flower route, I will do all white roses in aqua vases like the one here. I started with a clear glass vaseand sprayed it with Robins egg spray paint, another one of my Michael's finds. The color looks like Baby blue here but it's actually aqua. This vase is just a small one I had at home, the ones I would use would be bigger and taller.

I think either option will run about $15 per centerpiece, so ladies please tell me what you think about all my projects.

TTFN (ta ta for now).

Favor Flavors

I've been racking my brain trying to think of what favors i'm going to give to my guests. Most of the favors i've received from weddings were pretty useless. I mean they were pretty and all but I just didn't have much use for them and they usually ended up in a drawer somewhere, so I didn't want ours to go the same route.
Here's my idea: I couldn't decide between CDs, coasters, candy or a small token to keep so I decided to do them all.

First, I found this really super idea from Style Me Pretty for these great DIY coasters,

they are soooo adorable. I decided to try them since I was totally in love with them and they were really affordable. These are the supplies I used: a 4 1/4" square tile from Home Depot (not pictured here), Mod Podge, Aleene's glue, felt cut to 4 1/4" square, Minwax polycrylic sealer, card stock cut into 4" squares, ribbon and brush.

I bought 4 cases of 80 tiles each for $12 a box from Home Depot,all the other suppplies came from Michael's.

I wanted to make at least 2 different types but after finding the aqua patterned paper, I couldn't find another color in my color palette that wasn't plain and boring so I kinda had to go outside my palette just for these. I found this really great damask at Michael's in the dollar bin. Here is the result of my very time consuming project. (I had to make 320, four for each guest).



So each guest will get 4 coasters a pair of each (aqua and damask) tied with ribbon; a take out box with silver hershey's kisses and aqua M&Ms; a CD of our wedding songs; a fridge magnet with our names and wedding date and they get to keep the dinner napkins onto which i'm embroidering our initials.

These will all be placed into a tiffany blue 6x6 box (I'm going to buy white boxes and paint them tiffany blue) and tied with a white ribbon which will be placed on each guest's chair and the greatest part is that they're all DIY projects.

So what about you, are your favors DIY projects?