Yesterday I went shopping with my grandma for the finishing touches for our bathroom baskets and supplies for my DIY card box!
We started off at JoAnn's Fabric and had amazing luck! They were in the process of unpacking new stock and had a whole stack of cardboard boxes waiting to be tossed. I found the perfect sizes to use for our card box and they let us have them for FREE! (the best price, IMO). I highly recommend going back there if you need boxes.
I wasn't really sure what I wanted for fabric (all of the patterns I liked were black/white and I was looking for blue/white) and in the end I got an ivory/diamond white brocade (they had a stark white version too) that turned out to be 'wedding fabric' My grandma had a coupon so it was super reasonable. I also bought 1/2 a yard of a blue shantung fabric that looks like my BM dresses, that I might use to line the inside. ((DIYers: did you line the inside? If you look straight down you can see some of my glue/tape))
I cut the holes in the boxes (the top slot, and holes in the bottoms and tops of the other boxes) and then covered them in the fabric. I plan to put a layer of blue ribbon around the bottom of each layer, and then add some coral silk flowers I picked up at the dollar store (those and more were $1 total).
I'm probably going to have to wait on the ribbon, because I'm ordering 200yds to use for our favors and programs, and I should probably use it for this too.
Here's an in progress shot (with a ratty piece of fabric in place of the ribbon), a photoshopped version of what it should look like with the ribbon, and the cake that was my inspiration.
Edit: the boxes arent glued down yet, so I might tweak their placement slightly.
That is pretty cool! Glad that you got free boxes and spent some quality time!
Bella77
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beautiful! i love the brocade fabric! the seams look very neat too.... this is actually one DIY i'm sort of dreading hopefully mine will come out as nice as yours!! great job!
Soon2beAlberti
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wow thats awesome! especially how you made it look exactly like your cake!
bluegreen08
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and here are our bathroom baskets:
girls has shimmery glass stones (like the bottom of a fish tank) and guys has rocks
Great pics! I love JOANN. Everything is coming out beautiful!
del Rio
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It looks great!
Lucky0510
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it looks really beautiful! yay for free boxes!!!
bluegreen08
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Posted by Soon2beAlberti
wow thats awesome! especially how you made it look exactly like your cake!
I'm actually not sure if I want to have my cake look like that, I'm still wavering. Either way, the card box incorporates the aspects of it that I like
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WOW love it
del Rio
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Posted by bluegreen08
and here are our bathroom baskets:
girls has shimmery glass stones (like the bottom of a fish tank) and guys has rocks
You've been busy!
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that is really coming along so nicely!!! you really put alot of hard work into it! Want to make mine??
It really is so nice and one of the prettier ones...modern bride has nothing on you!
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Posted by madseason
that is really coming along so nicely!!! you really put alot of hard work into it! Want to make mine??
It really is so nice and one of the prettier ones...modern bride has nothing on you!
Thank you so much! I am very artsy and love DIYing things but I haven't used my glue gun in a while and burned myself -- I have a pretty wild looking burn blister on my right hand. I was planning to get a manicure in the next 2 days and I'm sure I'm going to freak them out.
It's really not that hard to make, I could walk you through it!
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Posted by bluegreen08
and here are our bathroom baskets:
girls has shimmery glass stones (like the bottom of a fish tank) and guys has rocks
You've been busy!
Yes, I'm only home until Sunday and a lot of stuff like this I can only do in NY!
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Looks like it's coming along really nicely!
Love tht you got the boxes for FREE
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Posted by bluekat16
Looks like it's coming along really nicely!
Love tht you got the boxes for FREE
You don't need anything fancy -- it gets covered by the fabric! I just didn't expect to get them that cheap!
bella1028
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really pretty...can you send some of that creativity over my way???
anamaree77
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I am so impressed!!!! I couldn't do that even if u were directing and pushing my hands for me.....BRAVO!!
angl2001
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cute
Celest
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wow. i give you so much credit. that is another big project,.. but I wasn't going to try my hand on that.. I probably would have exploded with frustration.
