DIY: Guestbook Pen & Pen Holder

It's been 3 months already after our wedding, I thought I will not be busy anymore but because I got a lot of work to do, plus my family visit me here last month, and that honeyko♥ & I are going to be a parent now, I become a little busy and almost forgot that I need to update my DIYs so I can share it with the soon to be Brides out there.

So here is our DIY Guestbook Pen. It is actually a permanent marker with a fine felt tip that can write in a glossy surface or even on glass, and it dries fast so no smudging compare to those gel pens that you need to wait to dries first when writes on glossy surface. I bought this from DAISO for 2 singdollar for 3 pens. At first my plan is to wrap a jute string around the pen beacause I saw this inspiration on the internet, but since I cannot find a nice jute string here and I think this look will be more on rustic style compare to a shabby chic style, I tried to think an alternative for a jute string and that is yarn, the good thing about the yarn is I can have the color that I want and I i think it is more comfortable for my guest to hold the pen since yarn is soft compare to a jute string.

Pen & Yarn from DAISO

Anyway let me tell you how I do it. You just need to do 2 somple steps:

1. Wrap the yarn around the pen, both the body & the cap. 

2. Then put a fabric flower on top end part of the pen. (the fabric flower I used is a scrapbooking embellishment which I collect, but if you don't have a pre-made one, just  google some tutorial on how to do a fabric flower.)

The Mummy Pen..haha..

Easy right? I think you can also Use some fresh flowers If you can't make the fabric one. 

Because I'm not happy that my pen will be just laying on the registration table so I also create a pen container. You need a small piece of burlap fabric or any fabric you want, a covered buttons, a permanent marker, a mason jar, string/yarn and a glue gun. Then follow these steps:

1. Cut a piece of fabric, the size depends on your covered button size.

2. Hand write the letter with a permanent marker.

3. Then follow the instruction on the back of the carton of the covered buttons on how to attach the fabric on the button. Just make sure that your letter is on the middle part of the button. 

4. Attached your finished covered button onto the string/yarn.

5. Tied it into the mason jar. You can put a little glue at the back of the buttons to secure it in place like what I did. 

The final product

By the way this is my inspiration.

And that's it. Hope you liked it. 

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