Kitchen Bridal Shower Invitation & Recipe
Tag
By Mary Ayres
Presented by Suzanne Walker
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5” x 8” white card |
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12” x 12” or 8 ½”
x 11” patterned blue bridal paper – one sheet |
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12” x 12” or 8 a/2”
x 11” cardstock – one sheet white and one sheet medium
blue |
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¼” crystal rhinestones
– tow |
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3/8” light blue grosgrain ribbon
– one 3 ½” piece and one 32” piece |
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7/8” light blue grosgrain ribbon
– ½ yard |
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White craft thread – 10”
piece |
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2” metal looseleaf ring |
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Fiskars® Embosssing Border Punch
– elegant fountain |
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Fiskars® Pop-up Punch – Heart |
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Fiskars® Hand punches – ¼”
rectangle, 1/8” and ¼” circles |
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Other tools – light blue inkpad,
small piece of dry sponge, paper glue, paper scissors, ruler, Edwardian
Script computer font size 22 |
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| Instructions
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Cut a 2” square and a 4” square from
patterned blue paper for the apron. Antique the edges with blue
ink, using a small piece of dry sponge. Punch nine ¼”
rectangle holes across the 4” apron square, 1/8” from
the top edge and ½” apart. TIP: if the paper has a
strip pattern, stripes will be placed vertically for the bottom
of the apron and horizontally for the bib of the apron. |
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Punch four elegant fountain border sections side
by side on the blue cardstock. Symmetrically cut a 2” strip
and a 4” strips from the punched border that is ¾”
wide. Glue the strips across the top of the bib and ¼”
from the bottom of the apron. (Strips will separate into two sections
when cut. Do not glue the narrow strips to the apron pieces). Punch
four elegant fountain border sections side by side on the blue cardstock.
Cut tow 2” x 3” triangles symmetrically form the punched
border strip and glue the pieces, including the narrow strips, to
the top corners of the card (To cut triangles, draw a pencil line
vertically through the center o f two punched sections. Place a
lucite ruler at an angle on the strip with the corner point on the
pencil line and measure 2” down from the point to the edge
of the cardstock on both sides). Punch a heart form the blue cardstock
and cut a 1” square around the heart for a pocket. Glue the
pocket to the top left side of the 4” apron square. Glue rhinestones
to the center of the heart. |
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For the apron neckband, glue the ends of a 3 ½”
piece of 3/8” wide ribbon to the top corners of the bib on
the back side. Insert the 32” piece of 3/8” ribbon through
the rectangle holes on the 4” square, leaving an 11”
length on the right side of the 4” square. Glue the apron
squares stacked on the card front, centering them from side to side.
Wrap the ribbon on the left side around the back of the card and
tie into a bow on the right side. Trim the bow ends even. |
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To make a tag for the card, punch tow elegant border
sections side by side on the blue cardstock. Cut a 1 ¼”
x 3” rectangle symmetrically from the punched border (the
border should be on a short side). Trim the opposite short side
of the rectangle to a point. Print “You’re invited to
a Kitchen Bridal Shower” on the white cardstock. Cut a 1 1/8”
x 1 ¾” rectangle around the words and glue to the tag.
Punch a 1/8” hole in the pointed end of the tag and attach
to the bow on the card with a 10” piece of craft thread. |
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To make the recipe card, cut a 4” x 6”
rectangle from the white cardstock. Punch three elegant border sections
side by side on the blue cardstock. Symmetrically cut a 4”
strip from the punched border that is ¾” wide. Glue
the strip, including the narrow section, to the left side of the
white cardstock rectangle. Trim the left corners of the white cardstock
rectangle diagonally to make a tag shape. Cut a 3 ½”
x 4 ¾” rectangle from the blue patterned paper. Punch
a heart in the bottom right side of the patterned rectangle. Cut
a 1” square from the blue cardstock and glue behind the heart.
Glue rhinestones to the center of the heart. Glue the patterned
rectangle angled on the right side of the recipe tag. Punch a ¼”
hole in the center of the punched strip on the tag. |
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| TIP: Place a recipe tag
in each of the shower invitations. Have everyone write their favorite
recipes on tags and ask them to bring the recipe tags to the shower.
Place the recipe tags on a ring. Tie a bow around the ring with
7/8” narrow grosgrain ribbon and give it as a gift to the
bride at the shower. |
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| Sponsor:
Fiskars Brands Inc. |
