First homemade wedding card

Nick and I are going to a wedding tomorrow and I thought it would be a great opportunity to craft a keepsake card.

When Nick saw the finished card, he asked me if I had an envelope for it. When I realized I didn't, then I began to make one. This is the back. I used one sheet of paper for the envelope, stapled the sides with one staple each, then scissored a sliver of this decorative chipboard to hold the flap of the envelope in place.

I wanted it to be delicate, but firm when closed, yet easy to open. The card is inside.

Taking out the card...

The card is made from two sheets of special paper. This paper was folded in half (after being cut to fit a desired size). The writing is by hand, and was inscribed with a black fine retractable Sharpie.

This is the inside of the card. I cut this special paper to fit; making it seem as though there is a border of white around it. The writing is by hand with a special black ink pen.

This is the back of the card. The top left corner is a thick sticker that is referenced from 1 Corinthians 13:13, "There are three things that will endure--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love."

This is the rest of the back of the card.

And here are the card and envelope together!

Looking forward to seeing the wedding tomorrow!

my 1st grown-up handmade card

I just folded this blue cardstock in half after cutting it with a provocraft cutter. The top border is something I purchased at Hobby Lobby for 99 cents...

...using scissors, I cut out some design from metal sheet paper to help with opening the card...

...I used bright green cardstock to print out my captions. I used the same font for these....

...the paper on the top in this photo was also from the paper used as the background for the caption on the front cover...

...I used this heart-designed vellum that I bought from Hobby Lobby to keep a heart/love theme. The heart that I used on top of the dark blue cardstock was cut from a gift bag...

...this is the back of the card.

And this is front.

And now it's goin' in the mail!

Mother's Day card ideas

So I found this great website for referencing great ideas for hand-crafted Mother's Day cards.

Here it is: http://www.kaisercraft.net/blog/mothers-day-cards-and-crafts/

I'm hoping to do a card for my Mother-in-law, Nick's dad's mother (so my grandmother-in-law), and also my own mother.

The tough part is gathering the ideas and developing your own into the making of the personalized cards. But I'm looking forward to seeing what happens for each one! I'm hoping to post my progress on them as well. Hopefully Nick and I will be able to figure out why my camera is producing blurry pictures.

Let me know your thoughts or any other feedback on what you're doing or what things you'd like to do!

Mini scrapbook DONE!

Here are the last few squares of the COMPLETED project for this coming Mother's Day...I have so much emphasis on this because I'm an ENFP (according to Myers-Briggs) and ENFPs usually get excited about projects, but rarely finish them. Thankfully, this case is an exception.

Disclaimer: I think my camera is on a weird setting. I'll have Nick check it...

Purple was used as the base color on both squares. The gold lettering are all stickers; from Walmart. I think they were $1-$3. Teal-ish and bright green cardstock was used to accent. The bronze heart in the top right corner was cut from bronze tissue paper. The heart on the bottom right was cut from a gift bag.
The verses are from the NIV and were printed out on cardstock.

Light pink cardstock was used as the base. Dark pink cardstock used as the accent behind the stickers: "m o t h e r" & "love". This is a poem I typed up on my own, and used only one font. I printed it on decorated paper and cut it using the provocraft cutter.

This is the back square!!! the base is orange, and the accents are the decorated paper on top and bottom. Each letter in "t h a n k  y o u" are their own sticker; again from Walmart. And the "M O M" was from a magazine.

I am thankful that God allowed me time to work on this project; that it would be for the encouragement of my mom for all the years of mothering us while sacrificing most of what she had or wanted to do.

I pray that this mini scrapbook be a blessing to her, and to those who see this, that they may be encouraged to encourage their mother; not just on "Mother's Day" but every moment they meet with them.

As we're called to be a blessing, let's choose to be a blessing.

Mini scrapbook almost finished!

There's only a few more squares to go! About 3 to be exact. Maybe I'll get them done today?  We'll see.

Left square: Orange cardstock was used as the base. Black decorated paper was used as the back base for the top caption. And light/bright green cardstock was used to print off both of the captions on this left square. I used a different font for each word on each caption. The blue almost-circle is cut out from the package of the provocraft my friend Gen gave me. See? You can use anything. The "A 2 Z" are all stickers. The "B R O T H E R S" are each a sticker.

Right sqaure: Yellow-Orange cardstock was used as the base. Black decorated paper was cut to be a roof. Red cardstock was cut to be a chimney, and a black sharpie was used to make the inline bricks. Underneath "T H E R S", orange cardstock was used to keep the continuity from the left square. The caption from my brother on the left was done with bright green cardstock that I formatted in Word and printed out, then cut first with the provocraft, then cut to fit with scissors.

Left square: Bright pink cardstock was used as the base. Purple, bright green, light pink, and yellow-orange cardstock were used as accents. The flower in the top left corner is a sticker, as is the "S I S". The caption in the middle is a quote by Cardinal Mermillod that I found online. It says, "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." I used a different font for each word in MS Word, and then formatted it to make it appear heart-shaped, then printed it out & cut it to fit using the provocraft. The writing on the bottom is done by hand with a green ballpoint pen.

Right square: Bright pink cardstock is the base to preserve fluidity of the color scheme. Scraps of yellow-orange cardstock were used to accent this right square next to the photo. The photo was printed out using normal printing paper; not photo paper, and was cut to fit using the provocraft cutter & scissors.

Sorry about the blurriness.
Left Sqaure: Orange cardstock was used as the base. "F A T H E R" has each letter as a sticker. Red cardstock was cut to fit using the provocraft cutter, and glued on via Elmer's Craft Bond all purpose glue stick. The bright green cardstock was again used to print out the multi-fonted captions and then cut to fit using provocraft cutter & scissors to fine tune.

Right Square: Orange cardstock was used as the base. A bright green cardstock scrap was used to connect the caption on the right sqaure to my dad's mouth. Red cardstock again was cut to fit using provocraft cutter. Bright green cardstock was used as the background of the caption on top of the red cardstock. The rest of the writing on this square is done by hand. The photo was cut from the original photo using scissors.

A simpler set-up, possibly the most simple yet, is this paged theme. "B e a c h" are each a sticker from a packet of stickers I got from Walmart (i.e. all/most of the stickers I have used so far are from Walmart). Blue cardstock was used as the base. I had a stencil that allowed me to trace the palm tree on the bottom right in each yellow-orange and bright green cardstock; cut out using scissors. I took this photo, lined it up on the provocraft cutter, and sliced it in half. Then I lined it up with where I would want it on the sqaures, took a pencil and traced where the hole punches would be. Then I took the single hole punch and punched holes in their respective places, then glued the photos in place. The caption on the bottom left was done in only one font on a teal-ish piece of cardstock.

Still a few more to come!

Let me know if you have any comments/questions/concerns!!

blessings