Friday, May 28, 2010

Tags for Verdigris Containers

Lisa is planning on using these terrific verdigris containers as decoration for her wedding reception coming up very soon.  She very kindly sent me a copy of her wedding ceremony invitation to get a feeling of her wedding theme, designs, and colors.  After seeing her invitation, I was able to duplicate the colors and feeling of her wedding paper as closely as possible while making these sweet little message tags.
Lisa's wedding suite stationery was prepared using creme linen card stock.  With that in mind, I used soft creme, text weight paper-and mounted this sample on another soft creme cover stock paper as a backing.
Then added a antique creme colored satin ribbon to tie the tag onto the container.  
This option is very subtle and elegant, and uses all of
 Lisa's wedding and reception colors: Green, Brown, and Orange.
This is a container and sign for Lisa's Head Table, or for one of her wedding Party tables.


This is another option prepared with the same color palette of Green, Brown, and Orange for the tag's wording, printed on soft creme text weight paper, and mounted on a dark brown cover stock paper.
I used a much thinner dark brown satin ribbon to tie this sign on to the verdi container.
(Just happens to be what I have on-hand).
This option is darker overall, and gives a  more dramatic effect. 
This is the tag to use for the table with cloth, quests will decorate for Lisa and Ryan to have as a sweet memory of their wedding day.  
The verdigris buckets will be filled with crayons for guests to use to create their designs for the couple.


I'm showing you both tags in the creme color palette.
The green used in Lisa's wedding ceremony invitation had a little bit of blue in it-a little too much for me to be able to use any mossy or chartreuse green colors in either the font color used for the tags, or the tag's backing.  Instead, I duplicated the font color from the ceremony invitation for these tags.


Here are the tags using the brown backing and brown satin ribbon.
The little orange flowers show up nicely when mixed with the brown backing and ribbon.
The size of each of these tags is about 3" x 3" and the ribbon about 34" long, 
so you will have plenty of ribbon to tie any way you like.
I enjoyed making these!
Let me know what you think.
Carol

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