Saturday, 31 October 2009

My Crafty Candles

My friend Martina has a little business, My Crafty Candles, which makes personalised candles.

She took the decision to take a stall at a wedding fayre, and wanted a banner for her table. It was to match - if possible - her website.

To start, I searched to find the font used for the lettering so that I could produce templates, but as this was unsuccessful I resorted to photographing the banner enlarged on my laptop screen!!



It worked and I was then able to cut out the letters from some gorgeous felt I'd bought from The Little Felt Shop on Ebay.


I then stitched these on to black fleece so I had the 3 seperate words. I was also lucky to find some embelishments that matched the floral bursts from her website - which I then glued on.


As a backing I used a length of creamy crushed velvet to try to create a light floaty feel but wth still some substance to the banner.



Although at the beginning of the process I was worried how it would turn out, I was pleased with the final result - and more importantly so was Martina.

She had a very successful day at the fayre - but I'm not sure that that was necessarily down to my work!!



5 comments:

  1. I hope she was pleased with the banner - that's a fantastic job you've made of that and it's such a good match to her website banner. Lovely!

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  2. Wow, well done that looks great! I bet your friend loves it!!

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  3. I like how you mounted the letters on black felt - it came out really well.

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  4. Hello! I am very late with my comment - but these look great - really fantastic!
    little*felt*shop
    :)

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