So, my first challenge - create containers for tossing silk flower petals. Why not birdseed, rice, or real flower petals? Well, other than the fact that real flower petals are messy at best (they stain floors), and the freeze dried kind are expensive for what I would like to see, my venue doesn't allow anything thrown besides silk flower petals. Well, at least the decision was made for me, right?
Okay, I've seen many different ways these can be made. My choice was with the cone. Unfamiliar with the cone? Basically, it's resembles a waffle cone out of paper, and you stuff petals inside ala ice cream for people to toss. Easy enough, right? Hmmm....I'm proving to myself rather quickly that I'm either going to skip most everything DIY, or I'm going to have to start giving myself a lot more time to get these projects done. I'm hoping for the latter.
So, I printed a circle on a piece of paper, one with my monogram, and one without. Because really, I have no idea how I want this end product to look yet.
And then I used my handy-dandy scalloped edged scissors to cut them out:
I then proceeded to roll them on one end to make a cone:
And then I shoved a bunch of rose petals inside to see how they look:
Ta da! An ice cream cone! Er, I mean, a petal holder. So then I did one with our monogram inside. What better way to showcase our monogram then to plop it onto everything I can, right? Wrong...
Er, where's the monogram? Can you see a little square on the inside right side of the cone? Yep, that's it. Boo. No workie. Oh well, we'll have to do something on the outsides of the cone. Perhaps a tag of sorts that also lets people know I'm not trying to poison them with silk flower ice cream cones, but to give them a chance to peg the bride and groom before we leave!
Well, what do you think? What can I do to explain their purpose and show off our monogram?
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