Designer Tiffany Hood was nice enough to share images of a beautiful bridal shower she hosted.  There are quite a few great ideas here that should inspire you for your next bridal shower!

Let's start with the invitation. She letterpressed these with the Caligraphy and Flourish printing plates using Violet Ink. She started out with an A7 Flat Card and cut out the window with the A7 Collection die.  The label on the front is cut out with the Nesting Frame 4 die.

Tiffany also made these simple labels for all the food.  She used the Nesting Frame 3 die, wrote on the labels, and added a little ribbon for a finishing touch.  

The advice bouquet! This is such a fabulous idea.  Tiffany fashioned a mini-bouquet out of styrofoam.  Then, she cut out several mini flowers using the Nesting Bloom die.  Each guest got to write a few words of advice on their flower and then stick it into the bouquet.  

The cupcakes are wrapped with the Botanical Cupcake Liner die.  Very cute!

One of the food items was fruit salsa with cinnamon sugar chips.  Tiffany had the great idea to place the chips in a little bag.  She used the Paper Bag die and wrapped it with the Trellis border die. The flower on the front was cut out with the Nesting Bloom die.I love these! 

Any good bridal shower starts out with a solid theme.  The theme can be as simple as picking a visual element to carry through your decor.  For this shower, I picked and orange and pink theme (the bride's favorite colors) and used scalloped edges on most of the decor.  My go-to die was one of the new Nesting Dies, the Nesting Lace Circle.  Any Nesting Die provides an excellent base for any party.  It gives the event visual consistency and makes it easy to bring your other ideas to life.  Once I had a good idea of how I wanted the shower to look, I picked my accent shapes.  I chose the Nesting Hearts, Party Flag Inserts, Scalloped Cupcake Liner, and the Petals border die to play with.  Can you spot them in the photos below?

All in all, this shower took me about 1-2 hours to put together. Once I decided on which dies I wanted to use, I purchased some patterned paper and quickly cut out the shapes. All it took was a Nesting Shape and a little bit of planning to make this come together quickly and beautifully! The beauty of buying a few basic dies for party planning resides in the fact that you can use the same dies for your next bridal shower with whatever color scheme you want!