A glass wedding card box...

About a month ago, I was contacted by Sarah who was browsing one of my glass terrariums on Etsy.  She needed a wedding card box and asked if that particular terrarium would fit the bill.  Unfortunately, the terrarium has 2 large openings on either side, so it couldn't really hold the cards in.  After some back and forth, she decided to have me make a box for her!  How exciting!!  I, for one, was tremendously excited!

I started with her wedding colors, a light green and navy blue.

So, I scoured the internets, and found the closest colored stained glass I could:

Not too shabby, eh?

Then, I had to find some metal accents, which was a pain in the neck! lol, not the easiest things to find.  But here's what I did find:

And then it was time to get to work!  I was very very careful with this piece, I didn't want to do anything sloppy.  So, slow and steady, measure twice (three times, four?) and cut once!  I made the bottom first...

And then, I measured and measured to make a top that fit perfectly.  (P.S., the legs aren't attached yet, just kind propped on there).

Then, I used chemical patina to make all that shiny solder a nice dark black (to match all the metal accents).

Long story short (long story long!), here we have the finished product:

The cards can be slid into that hole you see on top... and of course the lid just slides on and comes off so that the newly weds can retrieve all of the cards :)

PHEW!  Now, off to take a much deserved movie break :)