Wedding Shower Preparations

My son is getting married in May and Katie and I are throwing them a wedding shower in March. Katie immediately had some ideas and so I let her lead the way. Katie and I both agreed we didn't want the typical white bells and doves decor. Joel and his fiance are just not that type. Here are some pictures of things that Katie has done so far:

She made the guest book...

The tree is of course newspaper and she cut out and painted each leaf and bird. She used my rubber stamps for the letters.

She made it out of an old Scrabble board, scrapbook paper, tea stained index cards and hemp cord. She tea stained and handpainted each card on each page.

Each page is different...

She bound it with hemp cord.

She also handpainted clothespins for the money tree. She said this was therapy.

We found these giant letters at JoAnn's and fell in love with them. Katie covered them in newspaper (it's a theme with her) then wound hemp cord like a vine around them (again, the cord), then cut out leaves and flowers from newspaper and painted them and attached them to the vine.

more to come....