Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Engagement Party

I'm going to share how I used my Silhouette Cameo to create decorations for an upcoming engagement party that I am hosting.

We decided to keep the decorations minimal & focus on creating a delicious meal consisting of puff pastry chicken with cream sauce, salad, potatoes & biscuits! My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

To celebrate the engagement we are going to enjoy the clinging of champagne glasses as we toast to the happy couple. I decided to jazz up the cups by making these ring shaped name tags. I purchased a ring image from the Silhouette store & cut on white paper. I used my Kodak printer to print out names. You can do this by: changing the line color & fill color of the text & sending to printer. Before sending to printer make sure you add registration marks so that the silhouette can register the registration marks and cut perfectly around you diamond ring!







Next I constructed a simple banner using my Silhouette Cameo, card stock, distressing ink, sponge, scor tape & lace...everything of which I had at home! I love when that happens. 

I decided on the size & style I wanted the base card to look like & sent it to my Silhouette Cameo to be cut. I made sure to make circles in the base so that I could feed my ribbon through to hang the banner.


I then decided on the font & heart images & sent it to my cameo to cut.

I began to ink distress the letters using distressing ink & a small sponge. I felt this was necessary to make the banner look a bit more rustic & soft. After inking, I taped down the letters using 1/4" scor tape.


 Using some lace, I strung the cards along. I fed the lace going through the back & up through the front.




And last but not least I hung it up in the front entrance door way so that it will be the first thing my guests see when they enter our home!





1 comment:

  1. it all turned out so amazing!!!!!!! you are so talented!

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