Finally . . . Pictures from the Church Banquet

The ladies at our church have a banquet, usually once a year, called a "hospitality banquet."  People decorate tables in a theme of their choosing and invite friends to come to the banquet.  We eat a great meal and always have a great speaker.  About a month ago, my youngest daughter said, "Mom, I think you need to do a table for the banquet."  I of course replied, "What?  That's not my thing.  I'm not a decorator."  Then she convinced me by saying, "Sure, you can do a scrapbooking table, and I will help you."  I wouldn't commit to it at that time, but the more I thought about it, the more ideas that kept coming to my mind.  So, I decided to do it and came up with a plan.  First of all, since it was supposed to be a scrapbooking table, I had to come up with a way to "scrapbook" something on the table.  That's when I decided that I had two shadow box frames already and that I could put something in them.  Then I thought about doing "Faith, Hope and Love" as my theme.  So, I bought a third frame, and the work began.  I cannot begin to tell you how many hours I spent making all of the "stuff" for this table, but it was a complete labor of love!  Hopefully, someone was blessed by it.  (And it won the "Martha Stewart" award at the banquet -- how fun!)

Here is a picture of my "Faith" frame.

I made this design using my Cricut, some Prima and Bazzill flowers, lace, and my Spellbinders Nestabilities.  The frame is an 8" x 10" frame, and the word "Faith" was cut using the Home Accents solutions cartridge. The cross was cut from the Indie Art solutions cartridge.  I put it on a Nestabilities scalloped circle.  I ran the word "Faith" through my Cuttlebug and embossed it.

Here is a picture of my "Hope" frame:

Since I didn't have a Cricut cartridge with the word Hope on it, I used Sure Cuts a Lot and designed the word and welded it.  I do not remember the font, but if you are interested, email me or leave a comment, and I can figure it out.  After I cut the word, I ran it through my crimper to give it dimension.  I also used some Prima lace with flowers attached to it that was given to me by a dear friend for my birthday last year.  The bird was cut from the Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge.  This is the frame to which I added my cupcake liner flower that I showed you last week.

The last frame is my "Love" frame:

This was my favorite frame.  I cut the word "Love" from the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge.  The heart came from the Straight from the Nest cartridge.  The Bible verse is on a Nestabilities label.  The cross is a Spellbinders die.  The fancy corner is also from the Sweethearts cartridge.  The white flower was made using punches.

Now onto a few of the other table decorations:

Here is one of the six candles that I placed on the table.  I tied a ribbon around them and added a flower made from punches, plus a little rose in the middle.  I ran the flower through the crimper to give it texture.

Here is a picture of the candy bars we gave as favors.  We covered them in paper and added a quick punched flower:

This is the goody bag we gave with cards made by my daughter, a gift tag, and a bookmark (pictures and instructions for this on another day):

Next, we have a picture of the flowers I made for the napkin rings (instructions on this flower will come another day as well).  I loved making these flowers from cardstock and will make more of them:



And this is one of the placecards I used.  It was very simple, with a name printed from my computer and a punched doily flower and center:

Here is a picture of our glasses, with black ribbon and a little charm tied on.  It may be hard to see the angel charm:

And here is a picture of some of the carnations and rolled roses that I made to sit at the corners.  The carnation is the one I showed in a post last week:

Now to a picture of my true labor of love -- a flat rolled rose topiary made from felt flowers!  While surfing the internet for ideas, I found the tutorial and pictures, which you can find here.  I loved it!  I did mine a little differently though.  I added a pearl in the center of each rose and then painted Stickles glitter glue on the flowers.  I started out making regular rolled roses, but they were pretty small, and then I realized that I was doing them backwards from the photos on the tutorial, and I really liked them flat.  So, here are a couple of pictures of the topiary:

And finally, here are pictures of the table.  We used my daughter's red polka dotted square plates and put them on red chargers.  We used a white tablecloth and a black overlay.  We had blue fabric covering a small box and then a damask hat box that I got for $4.50 (50% off) at Hobby Lobby -- woo hoo -- sitting on top of the fabric.  The frames and topiary sat on top of the hat box.

And another picture:

You can click on the pictures to see them better.  Thank you in advance for any comments!  If you have questions about anything, just let me know.