Etsy Treasuries

Here are a etsy few treasuries from the last few months that my jewelry and my Custom Boutonnieres (and my husband!) appeared in. The last one, I made for featuring Etsy Austin Craft Riot artists, but didn't get a chance to share at the time. Enjoy!


Rich, Red and a little Rustic




Wedding on the brain



Austin Mix Tape

Wedding DIY

Here are some of the DIY projects we took on for our recet wedding. I got photographer photos back a few weeks ago and haven't had the chance to share yet. There are even more projects we did than are shown here, regrettably, I didn't get photos of them all!

I custom made the ringbearer pillow with this fantastic papel picado print I found at Vista Latina. The rings attached for show I'd even made in silversmithing class! I also made the boutonnieres, as you can see here, for all of the groomsmen, our ringbearer, and the guy of honor on my side. The coordinating papel picado/Dia de Los Muertos ties are from Cyberoptix.

I also made the flower girl's basket (and hair clip, not pictured here).

With the help of lady pals the morning of the wedding, I made this bouquet. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out! We trimmed the flower budget by buying in bulk from Costco online. Which brings us to our centerpieces...

We hand painted mason jars with aqua vitreous paint, then baked them, and added coordinating ribbons.Then just set a colorful, European-style pre-made bouquet into each one.

You can sort of see in the background the card box I made. I found the base at Hobby Lobby and painted it a coordinating aqua. I handlettered "Cards" and added the same papel picado print as above. Also on top...

...were little skulls I handmade from clay. They kind of look a bit like us...

Above are some signs and a chalkboard the groom made for the wedding!

Maybe one day soon I can create some tutorials!

I am back! Just Married!

I am back in Austin! The wedding was an amazing whirlwind, that was so much fun. My amazing friends and family helped up pull the whole thing off, decorating and helping and being awesome every time I turned around.

It was such a wonderful day--and whole wedding weekend--that flew by in a heartbeat!

I have lots to share about the wedding and awesome honeymoon after in Maui, Hawaii, but I will save them for another day when the jet lag has finally has worn off. A couple of my favorite photos taken by my friends in the meantime:

One last post! Wedding Shoes...

This post over at Modish, inspired one last post of my own.

(Plus I have so much nervous energy that I cannot do a thing with right now: I have flowers that need arranging, and decorations that need organizing, and reception clothes and honeymoon clothes that need packing, but my hands are tied 'til almost 8pm tonight and we leave in the a.m.! So in the listless meantime... why not think about shoes! OMG shoes!)

Modish posted her own adorable wedding shoes that she will wear in just five days by Poetic Licence.

I LOVE the red ones, too!

Here are mine, by Seychelles... to wear in just two!

And my reception boots for dancin' up a storm!

It's absolutely a funny coincidence that two of my favorite bloggers--Modish & Oh, Hello, Friend--and I are all getting married in the same week! The latter is having lovely guest blog posts the whole time she is away...

That's it for me for now... 
Talk to you in a couple of weeks! 
xo

We're getting married!

In just a few short days on Saturday, October 2nd, we will be getting married before the sunset in Liberty Hill, Texas, on the banks of the San Gabriel River!

I am trying to finish up work, scurry about for last-minute preparations, and crafts, and rest up. Only me and my terrible timing... I actually came down with strep throat and a respiratory infection just days before our wedding! What a week it's been!

But today, which cheered me up immensely, our lovely photographer, Heather Curiel, sent me the tintypes I took with her a couple of weeks ago. I am so excited! In case you don't know much about tintypes, you can read more here. They are a style of primitive photography from the mid-1800s. I don't want to give away too much before the wedding, but here is a sneak peak. I'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks! All the best!

Shanna
xoxo

Tintype by Heather Curiel

Handmade Weddings :: Etsy Blog

Search: handmade weddings :: Etsy Blog

I love Etsy's new wedding section. So much great stuff for a DIY bride!




How-Tuesday: Create a Luscious Bridal Bouquet

Handmade Weddings: Southern Intimacy

Loteria Confetti!

I just got an idea for table confetti for our wedding, and maybe you can use this idea for something festive, too! I wanted to write it down before I forget it, because my mind is going a million miles a minute lately.

I bought some pre-cut paper flower confetti in aqua at Michael's for something dumb, like $4 or $5 bucks for a little jar. I was daydreaming of the other things I could make confetti with (going with our schizo vintage/Mexican fiesta/dia de los muertos/papel picado themes) and thought about the random stack of Loteria cards I found in our closet the other night (which you can find in your town or on the internet... I just happen to be a hopeless packrat). Plus, I saw some awesome cut-out stamps at Michael's that I bet could make confetti even more fun!

I will post when I make them and have pics to share. I have a busy weekend of crafting coming up - new vintage Lucite studs to take to Lovely, Austin, painting ball jars aqua blue for centerpieces, and making confetti!

{vista latina}

While I was looking for the graphic above, I also found this AMAZING fabric.... Guess who's ordering some for table runners... or hell, the ring-bearer pillow I keep putting off making! :)

{vista latina}

xo,
Shanna

Fabric Flower Crafts

Here I go reposting from my wedding blog again. It's just that a lot of wedding crafts have non-wedding uses, too, and I am also wound up in channeling my creativity into wedding stuff for now... I can totally picture some non-wedding applications for these little beauties! Now to find the time!

DIY Wedding Challenge 2010: Fabric Flower - Project Wedding

Best DIY Wedding Craft List I've Seen!

So excited about this, I am crossposting thjis great find from my wedding blog. Now if only there was more time to make it all!!!

43 DIY Wedding Projects For The Budget Bride

Forgive me for oversharing...

...but I just got a sneak peak of our engagement photos we took last Saturday with Heather Curiel.
I LOVE them!

Affordable DIY Save the Date Postcards

I'm cross-posting this from my other wedding blog... After I started talking to the blogger behind Oh So Beautiful Paper (a great site!) after commenting on the Spanish Garden Party Save the Dates post because I was loving on their Save the Dates ( I have yet come to calling them STDs as it seems many wedding bloggers, do!) and color scheme.

I thought I'd share with you my easy way to make Save the Date postcards on the cheap.

All it took was a little design research into what I liked, a little dabbling in Photoshop, a papel picado graphic that I tinted to match some aqua paper flowers I am using since we are having a bit of a fiesta/Dia de Los Muertos theme, a fun carnival font from 1001Fonts.com.

I was able to order 100 postcards for less than $37 at Vistaprint!! (Not including shipping and handling).

Now if only addressing and mailing them was that easy! Thanks to google docs' address web form, I am having some help with getting my address book into fighting shape.

My Wedding Blog: South Austin Wedding Story

If you have any interest in things wedding-related, I also have a personal wedding blog, South Austin Wedding Story, that I created to help bookmark cute ideas and plan as we figure this wedding thing out, at:
http://southaustinlovestory.blogspot.com/
With lots of etsy and offbeat wedding finds... 

Custom Bridesmaid Coordinating Necklaces

I just landed my first large custom order through etsy! A sweet gal who's getting married next May found me and liked my style, and wanted her own coordinating necklaces for her seven bridesmaids (and herself), using her colors of black and dark red. We started brainstorming ideas for the eight different necklaces based on the color of  a flower bouquet, and I'm ordering supplies, and can't wait to start creating--and share the pictures with you.

Here's the inspiration board:

Custom Bridesmaid Hair Pieces

Here is my beautiful friend Jolene showing off a custom bridesmaid hairpiece I made her for a mutual friend's wedding. Please get in touch if you would like one or a set of them for your bridesmaids.