Stitch, Craft, Create: Weddings: 17 beautiful craft projects for your special day

By Open Road Integrated Media

A fabulous collection of 101 quick and simple projects, from gifts and favours to cards, decorations and cakes. The ideas are split into handy occasion-themed sections, including the most popular celebrations of weddings, birthdays and Christmas. All projects are suitable for beginners and cover a range of crafts, including papercraft, sewing and cake decorating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781446360026

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Wedding

Hanging Hearts

By Jenny Arnott

These sweet fabric hearts, filled with scented lavender, would make lovely fragrant wedding favours or gifts for the bridal party.

You Will Need

•  Floral patterned fabrics

•  Ribbons

•  Buttons

•  Dried lavender

1. For each heart, cut two fabric heart shapes from floral fabric.

2. Cut a length of ribbon 13cm (5in) long and fold in half. Sandwich the ribbon with loop facing down between the front and back heart pieces (right sides together) at the top edge. Machine stitch all around the heart with a 5mm (³⁄16in) seam allowance, leaving a 4cm (1¹⁄2in) gap open along one side. Clip the curves, then turn the heart right side out.

3. Press well before filling the the heart with scented lavender. Sew the opening closed with neat hand stitches and matching thread. Add a decorative button at the base of the ribbon to finish.

Full-size templates for this project are available at: www.stitchcraftcreate.co.uk/patterns

Paper Rose Bouquet

By Dorothy Wood

This beautiful bridal bouquet will last forever. The paper roses are made from patterned paper and assembled with wire, then tied together with loops of ribbon.

You Will Need

•  30 sheets of co-ordinating patterned papers 15cm × 15cm (6in × 6in)

•  Ribbons in varying widths

•  Silver wire

•  Ultra-adhesive tape

•  Distress ink

•  Embossing tool