May's Giveaway - $30 Gift Certificate

Do you want something whimsical and light hearted for your special day?
Perhaps a conversation piece?
Or what about something that signifies your role as bride & groom or Mr & Mrs?
LOOK NO FURTHER!!!
Here it is AND you can win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Etsy shop OurHobbyToYourHome, which creates these personalized signs for your wedding!!

Shelley, at Our Hobby To Your Home, absolutely loves weddings and wants each bride and groom to have a unique and specialized sign they can use for their wedding or hang in their house. Each sign Shelley creates is personalized by font, color and size. She would love to create a sign just for you!!

Shelley says that she loves offbeat wedding as much as traditional. She is decorating for a couple that will be engaged this summer and has included a photo of them. She is honored to be a little part of their special day.

Also, Shelley loves to do custom signs for the home and Typography signs. They make amazing gifts and many couples who use them at their weddings have a special memento for years to come.

Here is Shelley's facebook page:
.www.facebook.com/OurHobbytoYourHomeandWedding#!/OurHobbytoYourHomeandWed

Enter to win this giveaway by leaving a comment below, on our giveaway page or emailing me at vintagefrocksoffancy@gmail.com. The winner will be announced on June 1st here on the blog. Please check back then.
(If I have no other means of getting in touch with you - email address, etsy account, etc... -  the only other place that I can notify you is here on the blog. So be sure to check back to see if you are the winner!!

Etsy Treasury Giveaway Winner

During April the Offbeat Etsy Wedding Team hosted a huge giveaway. This treasury was curated with 16 wedding items from members of our team.




I am here to announce our winner........and it is....

NonlinearDynamics!!!

Congratulations from all of us!

We asked that each person who entered pick their favorite shop in the treasury. Nonlinear chose Artisanmaskers as her favorite. Amanda and her family and friends at Artisanmaskers create beautiful one of a kind hand-made masks for your special occasion.

A great big THANK YOU to all who entered. Visit our blog regularly for month giveaway's and unique ideas for your offbeat wedding!


Michaelann
VintageFrocksOfFancy

HUGE Giveaway for April!!

Our Offbeat Etsy Wedding Team is giving away an ENTIRE treasury to ONE WINNER!!

All you need to do is leave a comment on the treasury as to your favorite Offbeat team shop/shops.

Click on the treasury below to be taken to Etsy to enter. One entry per person please!
The winner will be notified on May 1, 2011.



Note: An international winner (outside of U.S) may be required by some of the shops to pay a small fee in postage. 

Michaelann
Vintage Frocks Of Fancy

March's Giveaway Winner!!!

Our winner for March is Casey!!

Casey writes:
My fiance and I have always done things a little backwards! We have a 2 1/2 year old daughter and son from my previous marriage. We want to do something personal and memorable and really focus on the union of our family, as that is the important part in all of this! We're doing pretty much everything ourselves and want the day to be fun and enjoyable for the kids - nothing stuffy or formal!


Casey wins a $30.00 gift certificate from LIAISON and
a $100.00 gift certificate from Isadora Clothing


You can find both of these shops on Etsy by clicking on their shop names. Thank you Kat and Vanessa for providing these for the giveaway. I'm sure Casey will LOVE your shops.


Thanks Casey and everyone else for your entries!! It's lots of fun for us here at Offbeat Etsy Weddings to read your entries and how you and your wedding are offbeat. We appreciate you stopping by our blogspot and checking out our Etsy shops under 'Stores'. 


We wish all of you the happiest of times & Wonderful Wacky Weird Way-Out Wild Weddings!!


And now for a little info on April's treasury........ We are going to give away AN ENTIRE TREASURY on Etsy. The treasury will go live this coming Thursday. There are 16 prizes that 1 winner will get all for herself!!!! 
Check back here for the treasury link on Thursday morning.




Michaelann
Vintage Frocks Of Fancy

DIY wedding favour boxes

Wedding favours are a nice way to say thank you to your guests but what sort of wedding favours do you give them?

A lot of attention is normally paid to what to put into the boxes but we must not forget that the box itself could be personalised as well. One easy way is make them!

The advantage of making them is that you can make them to the size you want and using the paper you have chosen. Yes it will take time and effort but your guest will appreciate your effort as you shall see.

Step one, this is the template you will need to understand to make these boxes.

A = length of box

B = height of box

C = 2 cm length which is needed in construction.

The dashed lines will be your fold lines.

From a standard A4 sheet of paper the largest box you can make is a 5cm(side) x 5cm(side) x 7cm(height) which is more then enough to fit a good size chocolate (or what small treat you may give them).

Step two, rather then folding the paper straight away, I would recommend scoring the dotted lines because these will become the folds. Why are you scoring the paper rather then folding it straight away? Well, this will give a more accurate fold and give a cleaner finish.

Step three, crease each of the scored lines you made so it looks like this.

Step four, fold as following and then insert the two ends into each other.

Step five, this is the tricky bit, pushing the base down. You will need to follow the folds you have made and gently manoeuvre each side on top of each other. This manipulation will open up the side where you have inserted the ends together. To prevent the ends from coming apart you can use a clip to hold them together.

This will require a bit of patient and practice but it will fold down if you gently push it down gradually.

Finished, you have the base for your box.

To make the lid for the box is very simply! All you need to do is

1. Add 1-2mm on A - side of the box
2. Decrease B - height of the box to 2-3cm

then you follows the same folding method as above. Here is my lid to the above box.

As mentioned above, you can use almost any paper you like to make these boxes but I would recommend you use paper that is around 80-100 gsm because it will make step 5 a little bit easier.

Now grab a load of your friends and family and fold to your hearts content!

NOTES :

If you require larger pictures then just click on the picture and it will take you to a larger version.

There is another way of folding the lid to make it more decorative. If you want to learn more then let me know in the comments and I'll sort out a tutorial for those.

GIVEAWAY for March

April 2 - UPDATE......the winner will be announced later this afternoon and details about April's HUGE GIVEAWAY will be posted!!!


Another month, another giveaway!! For March's giveaway we have a two Etsy shop's who have graciously given gift certificates.


Our first shop is LIAISON.
If you are the winner for March you will receive a $30.00 gift certificate to her shop.
To find out more about Kat of Liaison and her stunning creations click HERE.

Click on the photo to see more in her shop!

And next we have a $100.00 gift certificate from Vanessa of Isadora Clothing


The Chameleon dress, Isadora's exclusive version of the convertible wrap dress, is custom made every time- you choose the fabric ( velvet, satin jersey, matte jersey or bamboo/organic cotton jersey), the color ( over 100 to choose from), size, length and hem style.   

Enter to win by leaving a comment here about your offbeat wedding or what makes you an offbeat bride or groom. And also send me a convo through my Etsy shop Vintage Frocks Of Fancy or email me at VintageFrocksOfFancy@gmail.com.

GIVEAWAY

Everyone loves to win prizes and at Offbeat Etsy Weddings we are no exception.

So in honor of our love for, not just for winning, but also GIVING, we are having a monthly giveaway starting the first of each month.

It’s super easy to enter!! All you have to do is leave a comment on our Giveaways page telling us what makes you offbeat and then send me a quick email at VintageFrocksOfFancy@gmail.com with the words 'offbeat giveaway' in the subject line (or send me a convo on Etsy at  VintageFrocksOfFancy) Isn’t that simple??

We will notify and post the winner by the 30th of each month (or the 28th in February)!!


Now.....drum roll please.......for FEBRUARY’s GIVEAWAY we have a WONDERFUL GRAB BAG for you!!
(If you click on the photo or the Shop name you will see more details about each item)



The winner will get the following:

Birdcage Veil

in color of your choice

Generously donated by 10eisha!!

10eisha creates cruelty free hair accessories for the colorful bride, bridesmaids or just girls out for a night of excitement and glamour.

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$30.00 Gift Certificate to

ClayBouquetShop

Jennifer at Clay Bouquet Shop on Etsy offers a lovely variety of Bridal Belts, Sashes and Hair Accessories.

Here is one example of a Crystal Jeweled Bridal Belt

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Mysterious Artisan Mask

by

ArtisanMaskers

At ArtisanMaskers they create each mask from scratch using hand crafted techniques

from start to finish. You will recieve a mask similar to the above or ArtisanMaskers also create custom masks with colors and designs of your choosing.

(If you do choose so and want a custom mask you can apply the cost of the above mask to your custom order).