How to Style a Modern DIY Baby Shower
Creating a theme and crafting for a baby shower is the perfect way to treat the mother-to-be, and host an event to remember and cherish for years to come! Crafting pro Becki Clark has shared her styling tips and four gorgeous DIY projects that she undertook to create the dream baby shower for one of her friends. It's so easy to create a range of modern craft projects full of foliage, florals and natural elements. It's possible to create decorations that not only serve a function on the day, but work after the occasion as gifts or favours for the mother-to-be and her friends. As you'll see in this example, the naturally dyed wall hanging and guess the baby weight and date box work brilliantly as decorations, and also as thoughtful keepsakes for mum to be to take home and put up in the nursery. The milk bottle blooms make the prettiest decoration, and double up as perfect favour for guests to take home from the shower.
Becki Clark's top styling tips: - Stick to your theme, the colours I mainly wanted to use were soft pinks, greys and greens so I made sure that the flowers I picked kept to this colour palette. I used soft pink pom poms to scatter around the house as well as pink tassel garlands to hang from shelves - Balloons are always a good idea! The great thing about the Hobbycraft large balloons is that they take up quite a bit of space so place them against blank walls to create the perfect backdrop for photos throughout the day. I added a few lengths of ribbon in a knot to hang from the base of the balloon. - If youâ're having nibbles and cake, then cake toppers are a great touch. Pair with napkins, paper plates, and paper straws to bring the table setting together. - Add left over stems from your milk bottles to other vases and scatter them around the house - Lay a few stems of foliage on a wooden tray and place your glasses on to make them into more of a decorative item
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How to make
Prepping your material:
To ensure that the dye lasts you'll need to prep your fabric. I began by cutting my fabric into around 1m lengths and about 7cm wide. I used 2 types of fabric, 2 metres of cotton and 1 metre of linen to give a nice textured mix.
I made two different dyes, strawberry and rose petals. For the strawberries you'll need to cut off the stalk and cut into pieces before adding the water.
I added a few polka dots in spaces between the motifs and again polka dots work really well as a space filler.
Leave to dry overnight and then wrap your gift with the paper. I also added a length of material that was left over from the wall hanging to tie round the gift and add to the natural woodland theme.
Firstly take the box frame and remove the glass. Take the wood square that sits inside the frame and lay lengths of twine across it to work out when your string will sit.
As the theme of the baby shower was woodland themed I wanted to make sure there was lots of flowers placed around the house and something lovely that the guests could each take home. I popped to my local wholesalers to get my flowers but you could buy a couple of bunches from the supermarket if you're not close to a wholesalers, or use artificial flowers available online in store at Hobbycraft. Once happy with your selection, split the bunches between the bottles.
Lay your kraft paper out and cut to the size that you need. Mix your acrylic with a few drops of water just to thin out the paint.
