Pom Cake Toppers

Happy Thursday Everyone! Today I am sharing with you the long-promised pom cake toppers. I made big poms for my friend's wedding, and she also wanted mini ones to put on her cakes. Thanks to my 9th grade Spanish class where I learned how to make piñata, I figured out how to make the perfect mini poms for her cakes! This is my last wedding project to share...for now.

Here's what you'll need:

1. Tissue Paper

2. Scalloped Circle Punch (I used a 1-1/2 inch)

3. Scissors

4. Wooden Kabob Sticks

5. Hot Glue Gun & Glue

6. Pencil

First punch out a bunch of circles (you can also cut out 1x1 inch square and use those if you don't have a circle punch).

Then cut out about a one inch strip of tissue paper and ball it up. Glue the ball together and then glue it on the top of the wooden stick.

Next comes the fun part. Take the scalloped circles one by one, place the eraser end in the middle of the circle, fold the edges up around the pencil and then twist the edges around so they wrap around the pencil. Put glue on eraser end of the tissue paper and glue it to the tissue paper ball. Keep doing this and glue the circles close together starting near the stick.

I'm not going to lie, this takes quite a while (especially when you make 33 of them), but they look so cute when they are done!

See?!

And here we are together at the wedding - my little pom friends and me. My friend had cakes at each table for the centerpiece and the pom toppers were on half of the cakes. Very cute!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

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!