Now that you’ve made your delicious caramels from this caramels recipe, I’m offering a free wedding printable that will help you make these adorable DIY candy favor bags. You can put just about any kind of candy in these bags and customize them to suit your wedding theme. We used heart cardstock because Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. The free wedding printable is a template – in two different sizes – that you can use when cutting out your card stock.

I got the idea for these candy favor bags over at Martha Stewart Weddings.

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At our DIY wedding, we gave away CD’s (along with handmade soap) as wedding favors. They were a huge hit! We included about a dozen or so of our favourite songs. We used plastic cases for our CD’s, but I also love the idea of creating your own CD sleeve.

I found a tutorial for creating this paper CD sleeve over at Martha Writes. (She calls it easy peasy cd sleevey.) To dress them up, you could use fancy paper, and use a custom-made rubber stamp made with your names and wedding date to stamp the front.

You can also use the free template over at Benign Objects found via iDIY.

Another option? Head on over to Etsy Alchemy and have one of the talented Etsy artists custom make a CD sleeve just for you!

Are you having an outdoor wedding? Thinking of  a garden theme? I have the perfect free wedding printables for you!!

These vintage wedding printables are available over at Just Something I Made. The above photo shows just a sampling of what’s available.

Use them as favor tags, or escort cards. Or you can do like Cathe and run paper lunch sacks through your desktop printer to  make neat little bags. You can even make notecards with them or print images to iron-on transfer sheets and create  garden veggie totes to give as favors.

Get the free wedding printables here.

A while back, I wrote about having a shabby chic wedding.

Recently, I found some tea-themed wedding printables to go along with the shabby chic theme. You can download them over at Style Guide.

And if you planning on making your own tea, check out Layla’s Etsy shop for diy tea bags. She also has lots of fragrant herbs to fill them with!

Check out these free save-the-date templates from Printablities. Actually, they are intended for use as calling cards, but I think they make lovely save-the-dates! There are eight different patterns which allow you to simply input your text and print. (There is also a two-line version.) Click here to get busy making your free STDS!

Looking for more free save-the-date templates? Check out The Giving Tree STD.

I admit it. Post-Chinese food, I usually crack open the fortune cookie just to see what’s inside. Often, I don’t eat the cookie because it’s stale and slightly musty. I just want to get at the secret message to read about how wise and insightful I am:)

I really like the idea of fortune cookies for weddings. Not necessarily the edible kind – although I’m sure the homemade ones are de-lish. I like the fabric fortune cookies, like the ones I blogged about over here. Or the ones made of paper.

I came across this fabulous free template for creating your own fortune cookie made out of paper over at Kind over Matter.

Although I love the concept of leaving these ‘kindness messages’ behind for strangers to find, I think these would make really fun favors or great for ‘Will you be my bridesmaid?’ messages. Simply customize with your own message.

And if you are making donations instead of giving wedding favors, wouldn’t this be a great way to let your guests know you are donating to charity?

Want hip, fun and earth-friendly envelopes that will be sure to impress your friends (i.e. wedding guests)? Make your own out of vintage books! Here is the full DIY wedding envelope tutorial. These would be perfect to send your save-the-dates or your thank you notes.

You will need: Bone Folder, Glue Stick, Scissors, Rounded Corner Punch, Pencil, Ruler. (The Bone Folder and Rounded Corner Punch are not mandatory.)

Step One: Find a vintage book at a resale shop or garage sale. (I have a thing for children’s books.) Make sure that the book is big enough so that the template will fit over the pages.

Step Two: Print out the envelope template on card stock. This template will make 5.5″ x 4″ inch envelopes.

Step Three: Find a page that you like from the book. (If you want all the envelopes to be the same, simply make a copy of the page.)

Step Four: Position the template over the page keeping in mind the location of the top flap. Trace the template.

Step Five: Cut out the envelope. You can use a rounded corner punch for the corners if you want.

Step Six: Fold. (A bone folder does a good job.)

Step Seven: Glue the edges with a glue stick.

Step Eight: Presto! Your envelope is complete. When you are ready to send, simply get out the glue stick and seal the top flap with the glue stick. Below are some other examples from another vintage children’s book.

If you love the idea of these envelopes, but don’t have the time for DIY, check out Etsy’s adnagam.

Do you think there are few things better in life than curling up with a good book?  Why not have a book themed bridal shower? 

Wedding Style Guide  has some free wedding printables for a book-themed shower, including bookmark invitations. Or you could use the library slip invitation idea from this library-themed wedding. You could have a ‘cupcake cafe’ and serve gourmet coffee and cupcakes.  Yum.

I spent part of my morning strolling down the chocolate aisle at Shoppers Drug Mart. (It’s like Walgreens – except it’s Canadian.) My excuse? Easter. And since I have chocolate on the brain, (there’s a little bit on my shirt too), I thought I’d share printable candy bar wrappers from Rachel Ray. I think the design is lovely. Just click on the image and download the template.

You can also hop on over to Della Stella’s blog and learn how she made her printable candy bar wrappers. Amanda scanned a Hershey’s Special Dark label and modified it in Adobe Illustrator.

Still craving more candy bar wrappers? Creature Comforts has free printable candy bar wrappers (two sizes!) on her blog, along with instructions.

If you want candy bar wrappers, but you don’t feel like making them yourself, check out the gorgeous candy bar wrapper designs over at Karen Smallbone.

Okay, I admit it. I have never read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree ,but I do love the look of these save-the-dates. And guess what? They’re free for the taking.

I found this free wedding template over at Merriment Design - a lovely blog that’s all about sharing awesome craft and design ideas.

Kathy, who owns the blog, explains that The Giving Tree save-the-dates were created by Adam Siegel for his fall nuptials. Apparently, Shel Silverstein’s
classic children’s book has special meaning to him and Cristin (his partner).

In the spirit of giving, Adam and Cristin are sharing their template for free. All that is requested is that anyone who uses it leaves a comment at Merriment Design or email Kathy at Merriment Design.

Here are the supplies that are needed:

• Cristin and Adam’s free Giving Tree fall save the date announcement template (PDF, edit using Adobe Illustrator )
• Luna font (free!)
• Color printer
• #10 size flat cards (if letterpressing)
• 8.5 x 11 cream luxe 210 weight paper (if printing yourself)
• Paper Trimmer
• #10 size envelopes
• Optional: Cristin and Adam’s free envelope label template (Microsoft Word)
• Optional: Avery labels

 For complete instructions on how to create your Giving Tree save-the-dates, go to Merriment Design.

 Please note that if you don’t have Adobe Illustrator and you love this design, don’t give up! Perhaps you know a friend who is a graphic designer that could modify the text for you? Perhaps a talented Etysian could take on the task for a nominal fee?

Maybe there’s another book that has special meaning to you and your sweetie and this will spark some literary save-the -date ideas of your own! If so, let me know. I’d love to hear all about it.