Saturday, March 24, 2012

reminisce |ˌreməˈnis|
verb [ intrans. ] indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events

It's been almost 8 years since I was planning my daughter's wedding.  It was a crazy time with not only a wedding but we moved from our home of 17 years and I was in the middle of doing a book, "Designing With Fabric".  It has been a long time, but if by chance you purchased that book, you might have noticed that most of the projects that I did were wedding related.  Many projects had to do double duty in both the wedding and the book so I could get to all that needed to be done.  One of my favorite projects was Emali's bridal shower invitation.  My sister and niece did the shower but asked if I would help design the invitation.  We all got together to assemble them....it was a lot of fun, and actually went together pretty quick with the three of us working on it.

Here is how the invitation was pictured in the book - 
Please don't notice that 2 hangers in the center are facing backwards....loved this picture, but that always bugged me!

The idea for this came to me in the middle of the night.  I got up, sketched it and went back to bed.  Am I the only one that does that?

You will need:
wire hangers - I got smaller sized hangers from my dry cleaner.  
3 book pages per invitation
small buttons
1/4" ribbon
tag
fabric tag



Cover the hanger with 3 vintage book pages.  I used pages from a vintage wedding etiquette book that I found.  I used a bit of glue stick just to keep them together until the stitching and ribbon ties were done.

Page #1
Covering the left side of hanger

Page #2
The center page

 Page #3
Covering the right side of hanger

Punch 5 holes for ribbon ties

Add ribbon, stitch X's and sew on buttons.  

Up close details....

A tag was slipped into the "pocket" between pages.  It was to be returned to the bride at the shower.  It could contain advice, a quote, or a memory for the bride.  This created a perfect start for a "Bride's Closet" theme carried on through the evening.

The actual information about the shower was printed onto fabric and cut into a tag shape.  We were able to get four per fabric sheet.  Twill tape was used to make a tab at the top and attached with a grommet. 
(The printing on the fabric was quite clear, I have blurred the contact info) 
 

 The fabric tag was tied to the top of the hanger.

Today I went to another shower for Emali, this time a baby shower.  
After 3 darling girls she is having a boy!!  Congratulations Em!

Have a good weekend,
deb

7 comments:

  1. Absolutely lovely. Thanks for the inspiration, my son is getting married and I will be throwing a shower in few months. I now have great inspiration to draw from.

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  2. Such a lovely idea! Congratulations on your new little bundle. I'm sure when she finally arrives, there will be lots of little pink things waiting for her.

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  3. Genious invite! The old book pages, ribbon, buttons, tag ... well, the whole dang hanger invite is wunderbar! TFS this awesome project from your book. :)

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  4. That was one of my first paper crafting books and I still love it! :)

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  5. Love this idea and I Love that book! Look at it all the time!!!

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