An Elegant Wedding - Cricut Style...

 All this week the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot has been presenting a "Wedding Affaire" The Design Team has come up with lots of inspirational wedding projects and there are some fabulous prizes to be won, including a Cricut Cake, a CGull bag and some of the wonderful Teresa Collins paper that we have been using for the wedding projects.  Be sure to stop over to the Cuttlebug Challenge to see all of the great ideas and to find out about the giveaways.

I created a menu card and matching favor box & place card holder using Design Studio and the Straight From the Nest cartridge.

 The centerpiece of both designs is this "corner" from the Straight From the Nest cartridge.  I turned it to use the flat side to weld with a rectangle for both of my projects.

 This is the menu card base cut from Core'dinations gemstone cardstock.  I used "hide selected contour" to black out the butterfly image for the base.

This screen shot shows the hidden lines.

 I wanted to layer butterflies with the lace cuts on the base, however, the butterfly images that are coordinating to this cut do not have that option - so I had to get a bit creative.

I chose the base butterfly from the cartridge.  It has a lot of detail or webbing lines to help with the placement of additional layers.  In order to eliminate these lines, I simply checked weld in the Shape Properties Box.  Then I sized another copy of the corner arch to fit the butterfly and hid all of the lines except the cut outs I wanted to produce inside the butterfly.  I aligned the two images and cut one butterfly in black and one in pink.

 The base of the menu card is 5 x 7 inches.  I cut a piece of the Teresa Collins paper we are featuring in these projects to 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches to make a mat for the menu.

 I adhered the pink butterfly layer in the center, leaving the wings free to bend up a bit.

I added the black layer on top and used some pink pearls to accent the body of the butterfly.

The actual menu was set up as a 4 x 6 photo in my Creative Memories StoryBook Creator Plus 3.0 software.  The fonts we used are Champignon for the script and Charis SIL for the block letters.

A menu card can be placed on the table for each guest and may be saved as a memento of the day (possibly ending up in a scrapbook!).

 The favor box/place card is four inches x 2 inches x 2 inches which makes a nice size for adding candy inside.  The names of the guests could be printed on matching cardstock and attached to the flat lids.

The box was cut from the black gemstone Core'dinations cardstock.  To make sure I have a clean cut for intricate items like this topper, I usually do a multi cut of 2 times.  This solves the snags that sometimes occur in tight corners and small sizes.

 The box is scored at the 1/2 inch, 2 1/2 inch, 4 1/2 inch and 6 1/2 inch marks.

Then the box is turned and scored for the sides at the 2 and 6 inch marks.

After scoring all of the folds are made toward the "mountain" side of the score mark.  I wanted the shiny side to be the outside of the box so I scored with it on the top.

The inside is a matte black.  The back of the butterfly cut will show this side.

Use a strong adhesive for the side flaps and first adhere the box front making sure that your corners are square.

The folded box is very plain (except for the cut-out design) so it needs some embellishing!

 I cut a 1 1/2 inch strip of another Teresa Collins paper (this is from the "Mr. and Mrs." collection).

 I made sure that the design was centered, creased the paper with my fingers at the corners and then trimmed the ends that extended beyond the sides of the box.

Here are the pieces ready to assemble (I'll use the two stub ends for another project).

 The adhesive is applied to each section separately to make it easier to get a smooth wrap around the corners of he the box.

Next I added some ribbon to tie around the entire box.  I cut a piece at 24 inches and that was just about the perfect length.

The ribbon is tied in a simple bow at the back of the box.

I added some pearls in two sizes to the butterfly body and wings.

The pearls are from Creative Charms and come in three sizes.  Here is a LINK to the page on their site where you can see these pearls.

I decided to add some flowers to add an additional touch of pink.  I used black pearls (also from Creative Charms) for the centers.

The Cricut hook tool is very useful for picking up glue dots and helps to place the flowers on the ribbon band.

 A name can be added to the top of the box on a simple tag or cardstock strip.

 A table full of these elegant cut out butterflies would be a very pretty sight!

You can download the Design studio files here. I will add .gypsy files as soon as I can test the files on my Gypsy.

Butterfly Menu Card

Butterfly Favor Box

I hope you have a great weekend!  I will let you know the winner of the pen set for the Scrappy -Go-Lucky blog hop on Saturday.  Good luck to everyone who left a comment to enter.

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