Friday, September 13, 2013

Gorgeous DIY Tissue Paper Table Decor

By Robin Levine


To obtain a stunning wedding, you don't have to always invest a great deal of cash. If you start ahead of time and gradually work with do it yourself table decor, you can create a stunning wedding setup and conserve your cash for your honeymoon or home decor. All that you really need are a few concepts and some basic tools.

Tissue paper is almost one of the most affordable things you can discover and it provides yo with the advantage of being able to combine exactly the tones that you prefer for your wedding's color scheme. A focal point on each table that integrates these 2 colors will give the whole place an unified look if you have a double table cloth in different colors.

Did you know that you can easily find on the net ornamental paper punches of all shapes and sizes? Floral ones are great and you can get various sizes of the same design. All you need to do is lay out a stack of tissue paper and cut it into broad strips. Then you take your paper punches and punch out the shapes. With tissue paper you can punch out about twenty shapes at a time.

As soon as you have your flower shapes, you can stack 6 or 7 on top of each other and staple them all together in the center. You can interchange the colors or have a couple of shades. If you place the lighter colors at the top of the stack and the darker colors at the bottom of the stack, you will obtain flowers that are a light color in the center and a darker color on the outside.

When you have finished stapling the center of the stack, you can lightly gather the tissue paper into the center and crumple it, giving it a carnation shape. If you want to have matching center pieces and cake decorations, you can design flower cake toppers making use of the same punches. Simply cut out some wax paper flower shapes to put as the base of each flower.

You can make use of toothpicks with beads glued to 1 end to drive the flowers into the cake. You can make use of the same technique to drive the flowers into any polystyrene shape or into floral foam forms that you can cut yourself. There are some stunning bridal bouquet pins that you can make use of if you do not want to sit making your own, otherwise artificial pearls secured onto some fine wire will work too. You can of course use sparkly, silver or gold beads, if you like them.

One particularly popular focal point can be quickly created by cutting a big rectangular piece of floral foam. Cut some pieces of fabric and cover them around the base, then tie them firmly to the oasis base using ribbons and/or pearl head sewing pins. Next, pin a tissue flower arrangement on the top where the foam is not covered by material. You can include little touches of paper leaves and a few pearls on long poles so that they hang over the flowers. by cutting a huge rectangular piece of floral foam. Cut some pieces of fabric and wrap them around the base, then tie them firmly to the floral foam base utilizing ribbons and bows and/or pearl pins.

The only disadvantage to utilizing tissue paper flowers as table decorations is that it is not advisable to make use of candles beside them. You can however, very effectively use tea light candles in small glasses and cover the base of the glasses in the same fabric and ribbons and bows as used for the floral centerpiece.

You can likewise utilize these same flowers to make confetti sachets. Use folded tissue paper with confetti inside and pin it closed with a pearl pin and a paper flower.

If you have invited numerous individuals and think you may need help getting your flowers prepared, throw a "Wedding Design party", call your girlfriends and family and order pizza. Put on some nice music and get everybody to make you some flowers. With just 10 friends, you can easily make five hundred flowers in one evening!




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