I've written before about my sister's upcoming wedding. I have been tasked (and excited to do so) with making the engagement party invites and matching thank you cards, save-the-dates, invitations, and bridal shower invitations. My sister, Becky, was really specific about what she wanted for the save-the-dates. She wanted to incorporate a photo booth-style picture with each picture depicting the words "Save the date" and the date. AND she wanted to incorporate a bird somehow. The difficult part was how to include the bird. While visiting my family in Austin, my mom, sisters, and I went to one of my favorite scrapbooking stores, Archivers. I found the perfect bird stamp! It depicts two cute birds facing each other with the words "LOVE BIRDS" above them. How fitting for a wedding save-the-date!! On the back of the save-the-date, I stamped the love birds stamp and included the location of the wedding.
One of my duties as Becky's matron of honor is to co-host her bridal shower. My middle sister, Laura, and I decided to honor Becky with a kitchen-themed shower because she loves to cook. As a new homeowner, she doesn't have a lot of things other than the basic kitchen necessities, so we thought this would be a great idea. I loved the idea of making a kitchen-themed shower even more unique by giving it a retro 1950's housewife feel. I tried to get Laura on board with my idea, but I couldn't sell it, so I decided to give the invites a retro feel by shopping for teal and red supplies. I found the cutest polka dot and printed papers.
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| This picture shows the matching envelopes I purchased from envelopes.com. |
It seems like everyone I know is having a baby(ies) or just had a baby(ies). Last year, the copy parent for my class (and my grade level) was AWESOME. She went above and beyond and helped me sooooo much while I was pregnant with my twin boys. At the end of last school year, I found out that she was expecting her third bundle of joy and within the past couple of week she welcomed a beautiful little boy. I had seen an adorable "Welcome Baby" card on a blog that I "stalk". The designer had a really cute stamp set that she used to create the card. Since, I don't own the stamps, I used paper piecings to create what I think turned out to be pretty simple and cute.
I included this card with a small gift and a handmade chipboard scrapbook that spells out "BABY". I'll post pictures of the scrapbook once I add her photographs to it.
Many more projects are waiting to be posted. I made some adorable valentines cards and am working on something for my college roommate's baby shower.
