Wedding Blog

I’ve mentioned before how awesomely crafty my mom is. When I was younger, she made all my Halloween costumes, which were always so cool. 

I wish I had the photo of me in my Princess Jasmine costume!

Anyway, when she volunteered to make a cardbox for our wedding, I was super excited because I knew she’d come up with something really lovely. And she did! She found this perfectly nice hatbox from Ross– we loved the pattern and great price ($5!), but the colors were much more muted than our color scheme of burgundy, deep dark pinks, and gold.
 

But my mom had a great idea for punching it up. First, she used a knife to cut a slit in the top of the box. She used a file to sand down the edges and make it a nice, smooth cut.

Then she spray-painted the top gold and let it dry overnight.

She then rubbed an embossing buddy all over the box itself. For those who don’t know, an embossing buddy is a small bag filled with a non-static powder like cornstarch. It prevents embossing powder and glitter from sticking where it shouldn’t. She painstakingly went over the design with the Martha Stewart glue pen and added Martha Stewart fuschia and gold fine glitter over the glue. She said this process took awhile because you had to add glue to a small portion of the design, then add glitter before the glue dried, and repeat.

When she was finished with the outside of the box, she glued burgundy velvet ribbon around the edge and fashioned a lovely bow. She glued a dazzling rhinestone to the front.

Ta-da! A beautiful, homemade cardbox for less than $10. And one I’ll probably use to store mementos after the wedding. What are you using to hold your cards?