advice please on making wedding favour boxes

[partybabestitch]

dsis has a friend who can organise the boxes for her, or we can make them ourselfves. i thought it would be more fun to make them. so id like to pick all the brains of all you lovely crafters.

bigshot die cut bag is this too small to fit a couple of chocolates in?

or, we could do simple pyramid held together by ribbon at the top. but im a bit concerned aboutthe wieght of the chocolates tearing the hole for the ribbon at the top. iyswim.

or ist better to buy the precut card shapes and glue those together?

I bought a yard or two of silk/organza and some pretty ribbon

cut circles (side-plate size) out of the organza

Put almonds in middle

Tied at top with ribbon in a bow

Pretty, cheap but home-made

What Morningpaper said.

It is traditional to include 5 sugared almonds to symbolise health, wealth, fertility, happiness and long-life as opposed to a couple of chocolates btw!

that is a lovely idea. it must have looked beautiful
i really do however want to use paper and carrd though. craft is somethin give recentely gotten itno, and it would be my contribution to her wedding.iyswim. havent been able to do much else.

well yes winestein, but she wants chocolates! the lindor ones preferably!

Ah. I did used to be a packaging designer in a previous incarnation (pre aged 20)

Sugar paper would cause you a problem, but a thin card would hold the weight of some sweets, no problem.

How many do you have to do?

well thats why i was looking at the die cutting ones.
she wants around 200. so needs to be not too complicted to cut.
i ws thinking of using card. and if you think that will be enough to hold the wieght, then card it is

The sugared almonds don't really weigh much

BUT TWO HUNDRED TO BE CUT BY HAND????

You will really really regret it

Honestly

You will be bored shitless after the first ten

Fabric is much easier - you can personalise it by tying on a pretty card, with a wish on etc. Or use the same fabric as the bride's dress

It might be worth just doing ONE and then working out how long it will take and how much fun it will seem like after that.

I.e. It would probably take 4 minutes? to make ONE, and that's just if you leave it plain... so that would mean THIRTEEN HOURS of non-stop box making.

Does it still "sound like fun" ?

;)

oh sorry she wants Lindor chocolates

Buy some and weigh them then

You are SO going to regret this

craft indeed

Am I being dim? I can't see any dimensions for the purse diecut... (in order to answer your original question!)

(still "what Morningpaper says". I made 80 organza bags a la description below. So easy, but I would pull out my eyelashes with tweezers as a preferable alternative if it ever comes up in conversation again. AND they got divorced...)

And those Lindor truffles are pricey

They are about 15p each
That is 75 p per bag of 5

£150 for 200 bags of 5

Are you SURE you want to commit to this?

no, i cant see any dimensions either. which is why i was hoping someone who had the die would be able to help pout.
i intend to get the kids involved in this as well.
the pyramid shape is quite easy to cut as a simple triangle. but yes, i am concerned about thebeing bored and sick of them asspect.

well, bil can get the chocolates ate wholesale price. and i wont be paying for the chocolates. dad will [evil grin]

and some twat will put the box of them next to a radiator and then you will have 200 bags of brown mush for your 13 hours work and bleeding fingers

tell her to stick with almonds

chocolates my arse

Oh, I can help pout

Go for the absolute easiest shape if that is what you want to do. Honest. The only experience I have of die cutting is on a mahoosive scale where I sent my designs away to get something back that fixed into the big machine.

Can you not get something that comes out of the "big machine". I know it's like rolling out Saxby's puff pastry and claiming it as your own, but seriously.... seriously (there are no words I can add)

me and winestein are like the Wedding Favour Fairies

see our bleeding fingers and the look of regret in our eyes

hours of packing almonds did this

you all sound like my big sister.
thts the sort of stuff she was saying as well.

but the thing is, other than this, i will be completly uselless at the wedding organisation. i wont have done ANYTHING other than turn up with my thrtee brats. aand i really want to do something.......

Shit yes. Perhaps it's something we each need to fulfill though? Should it be on our gravestones? Health, wealth, fertility, happiness and long-life; my arse?

BUT GLUING???

GLUING?

Really there is no skill in gluing

It's for the brain-dead

Stitch: can't you offer to make a quiche or something?