Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson
Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant
Engagement Date: February 18, 2007
Wedding Date: April 19, 2008
Venue: Historic Inn
About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
The Sweetest Factory
March 24th, 2008 @ 6:36 pm by Mrs. Lovebug
A couture wedding gown, a string quartet, a garden full of peonies - of all the incredible details in store for our wedding, how weird is it that my favorite so far is the simplest and cheapest?
This is a handful of kiss stickers I whipped up to act as seals for the candy buffet bags. Just soft pink resume paper from Kinko’s printed in our secondary font (Urgent Telegram) in a medium grey (to evoke the look of a typewriter), punched in one-inch circles, and run through the Xyron sticker maker.
I think there’s something wrong with me. Because I just want to eat them right out of the bowl:
Also finito are the labels for the bags themselves:
I went back and forth about these babies forever. Kept changing the shape, design, colors. I originally had them in the same pink paper as the kiss seals, but then I realized that in white, they looked more like old school, hand-typed labels. Wedding theme power, activated!
This ended up entailing a bit of work, however, including the snipping of a zillion corners with a rounder punch and, of course, the requisite trip through the ol’ Xyron:
I kept the stickers low on the bag so they wouldn’t get scrunched down. The final look:
I probably made far more kiss/swak/mwah stickers than will ever be used. But they were just too yummy, I couldn’t stop. I guess I can always throw them on the back of my love letters… 
23 Responses to “The Sweetest Factory”
Where did you get those bags? they are exactly what I am looking for!
darling!! 
SO CUTE! Does the Xyron leave a backing on the sticker like you have shown or did you have to add that?
Laura: Michael’s!
Emily: yep, Xyron attaches them to the adhesive backing, and then you can cut them to keep them affixed as stickers, but in any shape you want.
miss lovebug-
would you say the xryon sticker machine is a good investment in wedding planning? do you have to buy the sticker paper? i am debating getting one, i know i would use it after the wedding too… thanks,
Which Xyron machine do you have? You have amazing ideas!!
oooo! Pengy rikes! These goodie bags are definitely made with love! Great job Miss L!
soo cute! the physical embodiment of your theme, right there! love them!
I think you’ve nearly convinced me I need a sticker-makin’ machine of my own….
seriously, you have THE cutest theme ever.
The good bags for a beach wedding. What an idea. Have a Florida beach wedding and use this for the theme of the beach wedding.
Jhearta: I really am a fan of the Xyron machine (I have the 900). It’s come in handy for so many little details. You have to buy replacement cartridges for the paper, yes, but they have about 40 feet on them. I’d say go for it. It definitely helps you personalize with fun little touches.
I have had my sister’s xyron machine for months now and I have no plans of returning it. It is so useful. Get a 40% off coupon from Michaels and buy the machine and a cartridge. I have used it for my favor boxes, program covers, invitations and plan to make many more projects using it. Great investment and easy to use.
Love all your crafts and ideas. I’m sure we all want to see EVERY detail of your wedding!
I live in Germany and I’m German, therefore what does swak and mwah mean?
You always come through for me Miss Lovebug. Your ideas and your help are all invaluable to me. I now plan to fun out this weekend to purchase a xyron and some paper and get crackin!
Yvonne - SWAK stands for “Sealed With A Kiss” and MWAH is the sound you make when you kiss someone. Another variation of it is muah!
Lovebug, your wedding date is almost a year to the day before ours. I may just press you into compulsory service of being my wedding designer. Your creativity knows no bounds!
I love these details! LOVE them!
Super cute!!
So cute! I am doing a candy bar and was looking for how to do labels. These are such a basic question — but how did you set up your page on the resume paper, so that each word (swak, mwah, & kiss) was about an inch apart. And do you run each little circle through the sticker makers? I’m thinking of getting one after your cute labels.
Marisa: awesome! You’ll love it. Every time i play with mine, I feel like a kid.
carrieitly: ha! I’d love to be involved in your wedding on any level. from your emails, it sounds like it’s going to be rockin!
I love your wedding. Is it strange that it just makes me feel happy?
jnicholea: sweetest comment ever? thank you. I just hope all this work “shows through”, yanno…?
