This was a huge check mark on the Cinnamon Bun to-do list, and the next big project after the invites went out. Our jam favours were one of the first things I blogged about, and then I got the Silhouette machine and blogged about the labels.
This last week, I put the Silhouette to work cutting out lots of little 2-part book-shaped labels:
I changed one of the fonts out since my last post about the labels—the combination is now American Typewriter (like before) and Jellyka Saint Andrew’s Queen (the same as the addresses on our envelopes).
I cut out 70+ labels in the book page shape, then cut out 70+ book covers from the giant theatre text that I’ve barely put a dent in with all my projects.
The glue of choice for this project was my Martha Stewart ballpoint glue pen:
I love this pen because I can get good thin, accurate lines of glue. Plus although it dries clear, it goes on a little blue, so you can see it:
I got very good at drawing that glue pattern, because I ended up with 70+ of these:
Oh yes, and thank you for all your help with the puns in my label post! This is what I ended up going with, for 6 flavours of jam, about 12 of each:
- 24 Thank you berry much!
- 12 Thanks for a peachy evening!
- 12 Thanks for being so sweet!
- 12 Thanks for jammin’ with us!
- 12 Thanks for a jam-tastic evening!
Once they were all dry, I used a 1/4″ hole punch to punch a hole in the top left corner of each label, and strung some black-and-white bakers’ twine through the hole. I asked Cinnamon Buns to cut the twine, and he came back 1 minute later with more than 70 bits just the right length. He did it so fast by finding a book the right size, wrapping the twine around it, and then cutting through all the wraps at once. He’s a smartypants. I was going to cut them one by one!
Those got tied to the ring part of the jar lid with a nice little bow.
I cut a 5.75″ circle out of cardboard and traced it on to my folded fabric 6 times—as it was folded double, cutting 6 circles out with my pinking shears gave me 12 circles. I just used my trusty orange Sharpie on the wrong side of the fabric, and made sure to cut right on the orange line. I had to use a black pen for the peach fabric though!
And here are each of the flavours of favours!
Raspberry.
Mixed berry.
Blueberry.
Peach.
Hm, I seem to have forgotten to photograph the blackberry, but I swear they’re done! The strawberry only exist right now as the fabric circles and extra labels you saw above - that jam will arrive in June when my parents drive out for the wedding. We wanted to use in-season fruit, and as we made this decision in July, it was in time for everything but the strawberries.
Each jam has a selection of different labels, except for the peach. I obviously couldn’t use any berry puns for the peach jam, and I just liked ‘Thanks for a peachy evening’ so much. I did double the amount of ‘Thank you berry much!’ because it was one of the most obvious ones, and a good groaner.
The favours have nothing to do with our wedding colours, but I’m so excited to see a colourful, pretty pile of them all at the reception! They’re going to be on a table or something with a sign something along the lines of: Thanks for spreading the love, take some jam to preserve the memories!
Now the next decision is: do we have them in piles by flavour, or one big multi-colour pile?
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