rosieposie's DIY-athon with pix

Bryjenbry · April 2, 2011

Beautiful! Everything came out great!

harkatea · April 4, 2011

Wow, so much creativity in one wedding. Everyone will be so jealous!

Kbodchill · April 4, 2011

Great job on everything! I love your luminaire centrepieces!

johnnmakenzie11 · April 5, 2011

your tears of joy packets are very cute...ive been thinking of doing this and now i think ill go for it!

Patrice Moore · April 12, 2011

I was not able to open the matchbook template....Could you help me?

rosieposie · April 12, 2011

i wasn't going to make them at first too but i had leftover vellum from the luminaires so i figure why not. i was able to make 2 out of 1 sheet of 8.5x11 vellum.

Originally Posted by johnnmakenzie11

your tears of joy packets are very cute...ive been thinking of doing this and now i think ill go for it!

aaronlori · April 12, 2011

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your luminaries. I didn't even think about bringing those with me. They can lay flat in the suitcase and be taped together once you get there, taking up very little room.Perfect and they will look so nice!!!!!

rosieposie · April 12, 2011

thanks! they're super easy to make and personalize, i've been trying a few things to keep it from blowing away.

EXACTLY! i figure I'll bring some double sided tape with me (plus it's handy in case you need to stick other things).

i thought about rolling them into a mail tube thingie, so they don't get squished because any creases in vellum are very obvious but only if i find one that doesn't cost $10 otherwise, into the suitcase with some cardboard it will go.

Originally Posted by aaronlori

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your luminaries. I didn't even think about bringing those with me. They can lay flat in the suitcase and be taped together once you get there, taking up very little room.Perfect and they will look so nice!!!!!

Islandgirl910 · April 13, 2011

Nice job on eveything Rosie! Where did you order your pashminas from?

Originally Posted by rosieposie

while cleaning up, i realized I had forgotten about a bag with a couple of other items. (it turns out, i am a DIY-a-holic). LOL i don't know what I'm going to do with myself after the wedding when I have not reason to DIY like crazy!

photoshare cards - printed them on cardstock purchased from staples. then spent an evening cutting them with my friskars trimmer - ugh, i tried to cut them with the big ccutter at work and they turned out all crooked since the cutter's guides have all rubbed off.

luggage tags - i didn't want to fuss with personalizing everyone's info and figure they wouldn't use it again, so i did up some business cards on vistaprint and put "Can You Read This? Then you're too close to my bag" on the front, with the resort's address. Then put a label on the back with the person's name on it. i used the laminator at work with heat seal luggage tags i bought from staples.

engagement photos album for parents - both our parents are not good with computers and hate clicking on a screen. so after reading http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/wiki/how-to-make-a-wedding-photo-book i started to follow photobook girl's blog. i've always been into scrapbooking so a photobook is like scrapbooking of the digital-kind. on her blog she posted an area for "free" photobooks http://www.photobookgirl.com/blog/free-photo-books-online-gotta-love-it/. i went with MyPublisher's offer $20 gift card to new customers and purchased 2 softcover 5x7 books and just paid for shipping. Super easy program to use and shipping was really fast too. I think they came out great. I am thinking I might do my own BD shoot album on my own.

Pashmina Tags - I haven't received them, but have prepared the template already. I hate waiting for online items to arrive, lol. Not very patient. I did the tags in Illustrator, and attached the PDF, but also attached a powerpoint version in case anyone needs a starting point to work from.

pashmina.ppt

rosieposie · April 13, 2011

thanks! i ordered them off of ebay - BUT THEY HAVEN'T ARRIVED YET. I'm acutally quite annoyed at them since i ordered mid-feb but they haven't arrived. selleer said they have re-shipped them last week after i messaged them. i figure if they don't arrive in time I will either pick some up from this store near my house or just forget about them all together.

i noticed your in New York, a lot of ladies on BDW ordered theirs from http://www.pioneergroup27.com/ i believe they're

http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/thread/63599/pashminas-pioneer-group

i believe they would be local for you to go visit their store =)