Wedding Gift Packaging

As you may have gathered from my post last week, one of my close friends got married over the weekend. Both Handy Andy and I were in the wedding. In addition to the tissue paper poms I made for the aisle decorations, I also make cake toppers for her cake centerpieces (tutorial coming next week, I promise). Since I was in a crafty mood, I decided to make a special bag for my friend's bachelorette party gift.

Her wedding colors were coral and gray, and I randomly had a plain coral gift bag in my collection of packing materials...perfect!

Here's what else I got:

4.5" x 6.5" decorative paper

White cardstock

White tissue paper

Silver ribbon

First I cut out the top form of the dress and glued it on the decorative paper.

I cut out about 1x1 inch square pieces of tissue paper, crinkled them, folded them almost in half, and then created another fold in the middle.

Then I started gluing the pieces in lines and then layering the lines of tissue paper to make the skirt of the dress.

Once I got the skirt how I wanted it, I glued some silver ribbon to create a belt. 

Then I glued the background paper to the bag, and...

I have a nice gift bag with a wedding dress embellishment on it! This embellishment would also be great for a wedding scrapbook, since that's probably not going to end up in the trash like this bag probably will...it was fun to make anyway!

Have a good one!