Our First Event! (Part 1)

Pin It One of the gifts I churned out this holiday season was a set of cupcake stands:

Cupcake stands:  melamine plates, candlesticks and drawer knobs.

I used some cute melamine plates I had found on sale and some wooden and brass candle holders.

A friend loved them so much that she asked me to create 20 for an upcoming event.

20!

Of course I said yes.  Crazy, right?  Especially since the cute (cheap) plates had all been sold by that time.  But I found a bunch of Christmas plates for 70% off at Target.

Most of the plates were scratched and some were even chipped.  I kept a few back for myself, and used the rest.

Problem was, they were Christmas plates!  So I started crafting like crazy to make it work.

First I sprayed them with gesso, which allowed me to paint the plates without fear of the paint chipping or peeling off.

While the paint was drying, I scoured the Internet for designs to cut with my trusty Craft Robo.  I eventually designed part of them on my own (using Photoshop), and bought some from Fotolia.com, where I buy most of the designs I don't make myself.

Here are some of the designs I plan on using:

Butterfly silhouette for vinyl cutter.

Princess  silhouette for vinyl cutter.

Ballerina silhouettes for vinyl cutter.

Beast from Beauty and the Beast silhouette for vinyl cutter.

Perched owls (Valentine's Day)  silhouette for vinyl cutter.

Bride silhouette for vinyl cutter.

Until next time,

~Sister #2

Coming Soon:  Our First Event! (Part 2)