DIY Wedding Favor Ideas: MAKE YOUR OWN HOLIDAY CHOCOLATE GIFTS

Eco-Friendly Wildflower Seed Wedding Favors

Eco-Friendly wildflower seed DIY wedding favors. These cute flower pots wedding favors are easy to make and good for the environment.

You need:

Mini terra cotta pots (sold at craft stores)

Tulle and ribbon (sold at craft stores)

Wildflower seed packets

Potting Disks (sold at department or home improvement stores)

Cardstock to print your personalized card tags

If you like you can decorate the mini terra cotta pots by painting them. You can either spray paint them with your wedding colors or hand paint designs. Another deocorating idea is to affix ribbon and/or scrapbook embellishments. It's your wedding favors, so let your creative juices flow.

After decorating the mini terra cotta pots comes the easy steps by adding the wildflower seed packets. You might need to fold the seed packets to fit the terra cotta pots. Then placing the potting soil disks either on the bottom or top of the pot.

Lay one piece of tulle on the table and place the mini terra cotta pot in the middle of the tulle and pull the tulle up around the pot and tie with the ribbon.

Print your personalized favor tag on cardstock, cut the tags using scrapbook decorative scissors or a hole punch. Scissors and hole punches are sold in the scrapbooking department in your local craft or department store. And be sure to place a small hole punch so you can feed the ribbon and make your bow.

This favor will cost approx. $1 to $2 to make, depending on your location.

Best of luck in making your wedding favors!

Sunday, October 28, 2012

MAKE YOUR OWN HOLIDAY CHOCOLATE GIFTS

Volume 1 – How to make your own holiday chocolate gifts with cookies found in your local grocery store. This the easiest way to make normal food items into stunning holiday gifts with the use of confectionery foil, which can be purchase at a craft store or online.

First you need confectionery foil, and the product you would like to use.

Everyone loves Oreo® cookies, so why not purchase a package or two of different flavored Oreo®. Wrap each cookie with foil. Use different colored foil for each cookie flavor to make your gift more festive. Be sure when you purchase the foil it will be big enough to completely wrap the product you are using.

After you are done wrapping the cookies place them in a clear glass container. You can also use a cylinder glass vase, mason jars, holiday themed colored clear containers or even a large drinking glass. Wrap your gift with a cellophane bag, tie with a festive holiday ribbon and attach your gift tag. Or if you need a smaller thank you gift, place three foiled cookies in a cello bag and tie with curling ribbon (see picture below).

A simple but elegant gift for under $10!