Anniversary Card

I had a photo from my sister's wedding last year made into a 4x6 magnet that I sent them for their one-year anniversary - I didn't have a card though and really planned to go buy one until it dawned on me that I have a craft room full of paper and supplies to make one (not to mention that I help Ronda who has a CARD-MAKING business! Geesh you'd think my first thought would have been to make one and not buy it!). Anyway...I started to make a card with a little heart on the front (I'm turning that into a Valentines card and will show you later) but then had the idea to use the magnet as part of the card.

Their wedding colors were navy and blush so I thought it'd be a little nice touch making this card from those colors. Using an oval die cut and my Big Shot I cut out a hole in the center of the navy card (a piece of 9"x 6.25" cardstock folded in half), measuring first where it needed to be so you could see their faces - this took me a couple tries to get it centered correctly. Then punched out the word "happy" from blush cardstock using a set of word die-cuts I have from Stampin' Up - I love how pretty the font is - and layered it on top of a rectangle strip of glitter paper and a glitter paper heart using foam dimensionals. Inserted the magnet and held the card shut by wrapping it with a pretty piece of ribbon. Simple but I think it's cute - Happy Anniversary Sissy!

one year ago: Kyle's sausage stuffed acorn squash
two years ago: stamp a floor mat

Reserved Signs

My sissy is getting married today (!)  and was stewing about how to reserve a few chairs in the front of the room for the kids and family...quite honestly I wasn't paying much attention to her thoughts about this for the past couple weeks figuring whatever, she'd come up with something but then it occurred to me that she was just going around in circles and driving herself crazy with a minor detail that she doesn't have the time to deal with - so I sent her an idea that I liked and she said "oh I hadn't thought of anything like that. I love it" and I said "good, then it's done. Now stop talking about it" hahaha. This didn't take me very long at all to put together - so if you need an idea for reserving seats here ya go :)


I made a very quick template on my computer figuring I could get 4 signs per 8.5"x11" cardstock, played with fonts and sizes until it looked right and printed them off on white cardstock. Using my die cut maker thing I punched out the words with a banner template (but this is such a simple shape you could just use scissors and cut them out) about 4.5" long and then an equal number of gray banner shapes a little bit bigger. Hole punch thru the white and gray and tie a length of pretty ribbon thru - then I slipped a small artificial flower thru the hole in the middle of the ribbon knot. The flowers came from one big hydrangea that I just picked the flowers off of...now I'll just lay these on all the reserved seats before the wedding.