Saturday, July 20, 2013

Keepsake Tray!

My sister in law recently married the love of her life in a beautiful outdoor ceremony and reception. I wanted to give her a keepsake of different mementos from throughout the day, but in something either compact or useful. Enter, the keepsake tray. This is my first attempt at making a tray like this and I am adapting it from the concept of a breakfast tray I am working on for myself. I bought the tray at hobby lobby and used simple craft paint to make it a deep purple color, the main color for her big day. A single sheet of scrapbook paper with words like "I do" and "Love", trimmed to be the right length, purple and green gems to line the left side e and pearl strands to line the right side make the bottom of the tray. Then on top of those I used two peacock feathers (part of her decorations), the front and back of her save the date (also purple) and two wine bottle gems they gave as favors. Then I poured an epoxy over the top (this is the part that I am nervous about as it's only my second time using the stuff) to hopefully harden into a a surface they can either use for an actual tray (breakfast and bed or even to display their unity candle) or to put brackets on the back to hang on the wall as a shallow shadow box or as artwork itself.
This is a photo without the epoxy on top. What do you think?