DIY Metallic Gold Flower Accessory

March 2nd, 2012 - 

Diy Flower Wedding Hairpiece

Image: Olga Maliouk for Elle Spain December 2009. Photographed by Riccardo Tinelli

If you’re like us, you’ve been loving this image for a long time and may already have it pinned on your Pinterest. Well, we made a metallic flower strap like this one a while ago and it was super easy. (Ours was in silver.) We just sprayed some fake flowers (cheap ones can be fine, just watch for frayed edges on the petals) with a can of metallic spray paint and stitched them to a ribbon. (Though I do love the way the stems show on this one–our stems didn’t look that pretty unfortunately but if you got really nice fake flowers I bet they would!) Now you’re ready to fancy up that plain black dress, or even a white gown! **fair warning: I highly recommend doing this as far in advance as possible since I doubt you’ll be going for that can-of-spray-paint fragrance :)



DIY wedding flower tutorials from Jewel Box Ballerina + GIVEAWAY!

January 29th, 2011 - 

This business has paid a fee to be listed on offbeatbride.com because they feel their wedding products and services are in-line with offbeat brides’ philosophies and needs … and I agree. Here’s more info about how advertising works on offbeatbride.com.

This is from the Hand-Pressed Fabric Rose tutorial

We know how much y’all love your DIY tutorials, which means that ya’ll are going to love our newest sponsor Jewel Box Ballerina.

Eliza Mariano, the owner of Jewel Box Ballerina, doesn’t sell you wedding flowers — she helps you create your own with her downloadable fabric and feather flower tutorials. It’s like the OBB DIY section on steroids: all the floral tutorials you could ever want at the touch of a button.

Keep reading to check out some of the ways her tutorials have been put to good use and get the details on how you could win a free wedding bouquet tutorial…


Say you’re interested in the Wedding Bouquet Tutorial. For $19.95 you get three PDF Files that will teach you…

  • How to make feather flowers
  • How to make fluffy cabbage roses
  • How to attach stems on fabric flower appliques/cabochons
  • How to make fabric flowers with stems (wired technique)
  • How to make feather stems
  • How to assemble the wedding bouquet

Shoe clips featuring the Fluffy Cabbage Rose tutorial.

And there’s so many ways to use your Jewel Box Ballerina tutorials: make bouquets, boutonnieres, funky necklaces, fascinators, and these adorable shoe clips pictured above. You could even make these flowers into colorful wedding favors for all your guests. Jewel Box Ballerina tutorials also encourage recycling and repurposing vintage items AND Eliza offers a 100% refund if you, for some strange reason, aren’t satisfied with the service.

This bouquet features the Carnation tutorial.

Jewel Box Ballerina tutorials are super budget friendly — they range from $5.50 to $19.95 OR you can by a suite of eleven tutorials for $49.

Oh yeah, and there’s her whole free tutorial section too! Why she gives these babies away, I don’t know.

This was made from the Knotted Chrysanthemum tutorial.

JEWEL BOX BALLERINA GIVEAWAY: Eliza Mariano will be randomly choosing ten offbeat bride readers to win her wedding bouquet tutorial for free. Head over to her site before Feb 4, 2011 to enter to win.

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Pop-up lotus flower wedding invitations

July 13th, 2010 - 

OBT member Stella hand made her wedding invitations and added this beautiful pop-up lotus detail which is freaking AWESOME!


Here it is in all its glory…

Pretty cool, right!? I've never thought of adding a pop-up element to wedding invites before so these just got me all excited. Stella was also kind enough to include a link to a template for the pop-up flower and a ton of other nifty pop-up templates for all sorts of occasions. (I wish we had used the pop-up shark for our invites now!)

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DIY Paper Flower Bouquet

May 13th, 2010 - 
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Learn how to make this whimsical paper posie bouquet over at Our Big Earth. These would make adorable boutonnieres!