Another Wedding Gift Box for a Halloween Wedding

Haven't posted for a while, having a quiet time.  One of retirement's blessings.  Here is a Halloween/Wedding box I made for a special couple.  It is one of my favorites.  I Love Tim Burton!

It was a frightening good Wedding!

Yahoo!  I have a follower!  My first one, and I want to let her know that I am thrilled.  So I figure I need to post more often, just for her.

 Wedding Gift Box in Damask

A friend had a black and white, damask themed, wedding.  I created a Gift Card Box and Pew decorations with the damask theme.  For the box, I picked up three decorated, cardboard luggage pieces, at Tuesday Morning.  (Lots of  stores have these)  The hardware was different on each, so I painted them all black.  I made the paper patterns, and printed them on 13 x 19 coated paper from Red River Paper.  I use Corel Draw software for design.  Since this is pretty specialized, I think it can be done with wrapping paper or with wall paper.  The bridal shoe is a pattern I made for a previous event.  I also made a black groom's shoe, but I did not get a picture of that. 

Church Pew Decoration

For this, I used a rose pattern from ellinee.com/.   I just used white copy paper.  Since I had to make so many roses, I created a file for my Pazzle paper cutting machine.  I hot glued them, about 8 each, to a styrofoam ball. Then I used a circle printed in damask, and a paper doily to wrap a cardboard cone. Not hard, just time consuming when you make 80 roses.

 

Wedding Card Box

I have created numerous Card Boxes for various occasions,  this one was everyone's favorite.  I started with 2 sets (six each) of Kraft book boxes, in descending sizes, and two seated cherubs, bought at the local craft store.  For texture on the books, I decoupaged paper towels on the covers then painted and sponged painted them.  I sprayed one-ply corrugated sheets in gold, and glued them to the side edges of the books, to give the impression of book pages.  I added some gold touches to the cherubs and books.  I created the large book in the center out of kraft board.  For the book titles, I lightly sponged painted a piece of 2-ply paper towel.  I ironed it to a piece of freezer paper, and put it in my printer, and printed the Titles.  Then I separated the 2-ply, giving me a thin sheet of paper towel.  I sprayed it with a fixative, and decoupaged it to the books.  I cut a slot in the top of two boxes for the cards.  Then, I glued the cherubs to the stack of three small books,  to make book ends.  I am trying to cut down on clutter, and I am going to put it on Pinterest.  Thanks for looking!