paper source outing : wedding favor workshop

This weekend, Samara attended a wedding favor workshop at the Paper Source with one of her favorite brides from 2008, Michelle.

Leslie, the fabulous instructor showed us the various ways of using different shaped paper cutouts to make amazing wedding favor boxes. To design our favor boxes, we used everything from beautiful ribbon, rubber stamping, glitter glue to embossing to make our lovely creations.

Look at the fabulous things we made...

Michelle hard at work. Great job Michelle!

Our fabulous instructor, Leslie, showing us her wedding favor boxes!

These are the great wedding favor boxes Samara designed. Are these fabulous or what?

more wonderful instruction from Leslie...

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{DIY}

Learn how to make your own

chinese take-out box wedding favor

supplies needed:

paper source chinese take-out box paper, 4 brads, rubber stamps + ink, scissors,

embossing heating tool + clear embossing powder, ribbon

and/or thin strip of decorative paper to wrap around box

crease the paper (take-out box) at folds and stamp.

samara placed her stamp inside of the fold, as seen below.

fold up the box and insert the brads into the pre-punched holes to secure the box.

next, cut a strip of decorative paper or ribbon to wrap around the box.

don't forget to fill the box with your favorite candy or treat!

lastly, wrap your box with the decorative paper or ribbon.

voila! an incredible unforgettable wedding favor -- made by you!

Fabulous creations made by Samara and Michelle!

What a fun time we had at the Paper Source! Be sure to check in with the lovely ladies at the Paper Source to sign up for the next amazing workshop. You're guaranteed to have wonderful time... And not to mention the insane shopping! They have so much fun stuff to look at... And incredible things to buy!

Happy designing + shopping!

our favorite things : embossing

Oh my goodness... I can't tell you how excited we are about embossing! Definitely, hands-down in love with this craft idea... :O) I was visiting one of my absolutely favorite places, the Paper Source store in Annapolis, MD yesterday and stumbled upon a demo of embossing taking place in the store. I was absolutely mesmerized as I watched the young lady emboss a floral rubber stamp onto the card stock paper. I was so eager to buy all of the materials right there on the spot to try this out for myself... I held back though. Need to definitely pre-plan for this expense. :O) I never know how simple it was to emboss. The cool thing about embossing is you can emboss almost everything... Including satin ribbon. Who knew??? The possibilities of embossing are practically limitless... We definitely cannot wait to put embossing to use in designing our clients fabulous events!

For more information and a tutorial on embossing, check out Martha Stewart's, How to Make Embossed Cards.

Be sure to visit the Paper Source when you get a chance. We guarantee... You'll fall in l-o-v-e with this store too!

P.S. Don't go there without a plan and a spending budget in mind... You'll be tempted to buy lots and lots of beautiful and neat stuff!

Happy shopping!

Photos courtesy of the Paper Source + google images