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Remember my other DIY votives?

When I first started off with decor for the tables, all I knew was what I pictured in my head. I wanted something that would make the table look full and help accent a simple and smaller centerpiece in the middle to save $$$$ on elaborate, full arrangements. I wanted a mixture of cube votives and candle votives as shown above.

I came across a great deal for 3×3 cube votive candles with seller hjkgifts, who was local but not available to the public without a business license. So after much discussion, I couldn’t pick it up myself to save on shipping. Either way, it was a great purchase - I got 48 which was enough to cover 3 per table at 15 tables max for our Western reception! Score!

They arrived at my office, fast and in great condition! It was a b*tch carrying them home though. I mean I could’ve waited til Mr. CB came to pick me up, but I was anxious so I lugged half the suckers home and waited for the next free ride to lug the other suckas home.

The cubes aren’t exactly 3 inches - it’s more like 2.75 but whatever, it works.

While I was waiting for these bad boys to arrive, I inherited free ribbon that was attached to wedding registry gifts that arrived for one of the partners in our firm. Another score! We love freebies! Why waste perfectly good ribbon?!

So I had cube votives, free ribbon … what to do next? I had several ideas at first, layering ribbon, square adhesive stickers, etc. But I checked my wedding stash and I had a gorgeous olive branch stamp that I purchased at the Paper Source Paper Wedding Workshop earlier in the year. I had planned on using it for invites and then …… *DING*, an idea occured.

It started off ambitious: I wanted to heat emboss ribbon! Here are le supplies:

Here is the finished product. Can you tell it’s heat embossed?

How about now? Not so much right? One is a little shinier, but not enough to warrant so much work. Oh wells. Mission abolished. But the regular ones look cute, so be it.

So then I alternated between the pink and the brown stamp pads to create the motif on the ribbon as is:

To secure the ribbon onto the votives, I originally tried good ol’ double sided scotch tape, but that was a dud. So then I got these Zot Dots from Paper Source - a box of 300 pieces/$4.30, which should be heavy duty enough for my babies.

And voila here are my votive cubes. Mr. CB thinks it looks Hawaiian. Do you? Either way, I vetoed him - haha - I like em!

The downside was, the freebie ribbon was a bit on the yellowy peachy side, so I ended up purchasing a roll of ivory through efavormart on ebay for $12.38/150ft roll. Sweeet. But geebus has the price since gone up.

Now let me ask you … Which way do you like it betta? 

Option A: the print is spaced out evenly so it is on the flat surface of each side

Or Option B: the print is random so that it lands on the corner/edges of the cube votive