DIY: Button + Fabric Table Numbers

Here's a very simple, fun project for table numbers for a party. If you're going for something kitschy or vintage these are great because you can use buttons, brooches, and pendants from antique stores and flea markets.

Materials:

Scrap Fabric, large enough to fit into a picture frame

Sewing needle and thread

Buttons, Brooches, Pendants

Picture frame



Directions:

Step 1: Trace your number onto your fabric with sewing chalk or a pencil.

Step 2: Lay out your buttons, brooches, findings, and pendants on your number. Take a picture of your finished layout for reference.

Step 3: Sew your pieces to the fabric in the pattern that you laid out. I used an embroidery hoop to help me.

Step 4: Cut your fabric to fit your picture frame (if necessary) and place it in the picture frame. Trim any overhang after putting the backing on the frame. Voila!

Weddings: Designed by the Bride

My DIB Virtual Bouquet, discovered via Savvy Cinderella

Designed by the Bride is an online decorative resource tool for brides and event planners alike. Whether you use the free tools, or subscribe for even more options, you can easily create a virtual mock up of your dream bouquet, centerpiece, and cake! The bouquet I made above uses baby's breath, queen ann's lace, baker's fern, bronze chrysanthemum, "billy balls", and lavender alstroemeria. It was very easy to do!

And though it's a bride's site I would say it's not just for weddings. If you have a party that needs some decorating, use the site to do virtual mock ups of your vision!

Featured: DIY Wine Bottles on Wedding Wire!

Wedding Wire has featured my DIY Wine Bottle and Cork centerpiece tutorial on their blog, with a collection of other great Wine Bottle Centerpiece ideas! Go check it out!

DIY: Wildflower Wine Bottle Centerpieces

Flower arrangements can be expensive for something that doesn't live very long. The trend in do-it-yourself-weddings has been to create your own memorably beautiful flower arrangements. They're a fraction of the price and they look just as stunning. And they're not just for weddings, they're great for any party - or just for a nice table arrangement. It's easy, it's fun, and it gets your creativity flowing!

Materials

• Wine bottles, or any container you wish to use.


• Flower bouquet


• Cork or other decorative element

Step 1: Lay out your bouquet and examine the textures and colors used.


Step 2: Pick out the flowers you would like to use, lay them side by side to decide which ones you would like to group together.


Step 3: Fill bottles at least halfway with water. Trim stems at different heights so that they each stand differently in the bottle. Be careful not to crowd the flowers in there, for my arrangements I used up to three different flowers in my wine bottles depending on the size of the flower and the stem thickness.


Step 4: Arrange the cork, or your other decorative element, around the bottom of the bottles.


Finished Look: