Sadly, this was not my first attempt at making table numbers for the wedding. At first I found dessert plates with beautiful shabby chic roses and hand fulls of luscious lilacs. I hot glued buttons from my collection forming the numbers. I found the results to be okay, but hard to read due to the randomness on the size, color, and shape of the old buttons... So I scrapped it and moved on.
In our Gypsy Cottage, I have collected lots of random vintage jars. Joe had worked on a job-site years ago and during his lunch time he would excavate glass jars from mounds of dirt. So we married our collections and had just enough for our table numbers.
My basic concept was to use the bottles as a vintage element to accent the entire tablescapes. I went for a whimsical look with the numbers differing from table to table. I wanted to carry the overall look of our stationary, so I purchased these wonderful little tags from
Robyn Love,she is the wonderful artist that designed our entire invitation suite.
They are a two part design with the back being card stock and the top a scrolly layer of vellum. I then wrote my numbers in the center of the tags! Easy Peasy. For the others, I found this yummy polka dot fabric and hand sketched the numbers with a black sharpie. I cut out the numbers with pinking sheers.
Then I traced the sharpies lines with a glue pen, I think it's by Martha Stewart. I glittered each one.
I placed a vintage paper doily on the bottle and then glued the respective number to the doily. I used hot melt for the main gluing of each bottle.
Vintage bits or jewelry and ribbons were added to the finished numbers.
The table numbers turned out so whimsical! They fit the bill just perfectly. I finished the entire collection of 16 in one evening. Sometimes the hardest thing is coming up with the concept...
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| Photo: Kalamazoo Photoworks |
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| Photo:Kalamazoo Photoworks |
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| Photo:Kalamazoo Photoworks |
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