Wedding Crafts To Sell At Craft Shows

If you've been wanting to try your hand at some crafts and you have a passion for the wedding industry, if you put the two together, you can launch a home business in wedding crafts and make yourself a nice little income from home!

These are some easy wedding crafts to make and sell at craft shows to help launch your new crafts business in the wedding industry and that you can build on as you start to make some sales.

Project #1: Disposable Wedding Camera Covers
A lot of couples still buy disposable wedding cameras for their guests to take some candid shots during the reception. They usually put one camera on each table and it gets passed around from guest to guest to take photos.

The best part about these cameras is when the newlyweds finally get to these photos and try to guess who took them. And believe me, it's a real treat!

Most of these disposable wedding cameras still have the same covers on them from several years ago. Stock photos really with no real character; the same thing over and over at every store or website you go to.

What if you want something different than what everyone else is having? For instance, if your wedding color theme is black and red, you're not going to find black and red covers on these disposable cameras.

The other consideration is price. You can actually pay more for the disposable cameras just because they're marketed as "wedding" cameras and have covers on them. Take the covers off and you have a plain black camera underneath.

Buy a plain black camera and you save a little chunk of change but then you're left with a plain black camera to put on your guests' tables, which is fine if your wedding colors are black and white or black and red, but they're still kind of bland, not making much of an accent to your wedding theme at all.

If you're crafty though, you can spruce up these plain old outdated camera "skins" yourself, plus print off some extras and sell them at craft shows!

What you'll need:
* Lightweight card stock - heavier than 24 lb. paper, but nothing heavier than around 65 lb.
* A disposable camera with a cover on it.

What you do:
* Take the current cover off and lay it out flat on the card stock.
* Trace the card stock including the places where you need to cut out the holes for the lens
* Scan the cover and edit it in a photo imaging program like Paint.Net, which is free.
* Print out however many you need and recover the camera!

If you're making some camera covers to sell at craft shows, make sure you have the camera you originally used to make the templates so your customers know what type of a camera your unique covers will fit on.

You can do this with any disposable camera that already has a cover on it! Get creative and even offer to do some custom work!

Project #2: Shot Glass Candles for Wedding Favors
Shot glasses are often used for wedding favors but they also make unique candle holders too. If you love wedding crafts and you love making candles, shot glass candles could be just the ticket to making some wedding favors to sell at craft shows.

This is also a great recycled craft idea as well since you'll be reusing some things you may already have around the house or getting them from friends who may otherwise have thrown them out.

So here's what you need:
* Some heavy shot glasses. Doesn't matter if they're used, picked up at auctions or from a bar that closed down. They won't be used to drink out of; they'll be holding candle wax!

* Some candle wax. Use the leftover wax from old candles and add it to some new wax. Melt down some old crayons for some extra color. Reusing the old will save you money because you won't have to buy as much of the new stuff.

* Wicks for the candles. Cut to about ?翹 inch above the height of the shot glass.

What you do next:
* Cut or shave the old candles into pieces and place the shavings and pieces in a container.
* Place the container of wax inside of a separate container of boiling water.
* Melt the wax.
* Add in some dye or some of the crayon shavings for color.
* Set the wicks upright into the center of shot glasses and hold the wick up as you pour in the wax.
* As the wax sets, check the wicks to make sure they're still centered.*

Once the candles are completely set, you can wrap them in tulle and tie a ribbon around them so they make nice accents to the guests' tables.

Having them wrapped in tulle with a ribbon makes them look nice for customers who stop by your craft table too!