July 31, 2012

Weddings + Christmas = Love

Wedding and Christmas are two of my very favorite things...and combining them is heavenly! While coming up with a personal touch to a wedding gift for our wonderful friends Nate and Ashley, I came across on where else but Pintrest {a recent obsession of mine} this great idea to make a Christmas ornament out of the couple's wedding invite and then gift it to them as a gift for their 1st Christmas tree...I know right?! This had to happen...
It was so very simple and took me know time at all to mane a beautiful Christmas ball. I got so excited and I forgot to take pictures of Ashley and Nate's invite, So here are instructions using my 10 year old {yikes..how did 10 years happen already} wedding invitation:

1) Take your wedding invitation and cut it into strips using a paper cutter..I didn't measure I just tried to cut it so they were somewhat uniform and that you can still read what it said:



2) Curl the strips of invitations around a pen or pencil - a stiff paper will hold the curl:







3) Take the top off  the Christmas ornament and place them inside:




4) Add a pretty ribbon to the Christmas ball and you're done!:




 
Here are some completed ones of Ashley and Nate's...



Here is the link to the original post for this craft...so simple, so lovely!




1 comment:

  1. What a great idea! I would love to do it with the kids' birth announcements too.
    Andrea

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