This month my goal was to make two different projects involving cards.
Let's do the easy one first.
Happy Birthday card
You know how much I love sending cards to people? I've started to rope in the kids so they get trained at a young age.
I got each child to sit on my lap and scribble ("write") in each of the Christmas cards. I did miss a few here and there because those were hectic days in the evenings.
Then we were invited to Nicola's birthday party.
I don't normally do birthday cards for the littles but this time I thought we would, seeing as they were used to doing cards.
As an aside, it is super adorable to see them writing :)
I took an A4 sheet of white project board, folded it in half, pasted a pink strip of paper on the inside and used my Happy Birthday punch for the cover.
I then pasted two, two-inch circles (free printables from somewhere on the internet - I print things regularly and punch them so they're ready to use) on the cover.
I asked V to let them decorate the inside as a craft one day last week (another bonus - keeps them busy for 10 minutes too) and they did a great job of putting their handprints on the inside.
Sorry, no pics - I took these before they did their craft.
And that was that - an easy card that we could all contribute towards.
Next up, mini notecards
I've been making 6 X 6 mini notebooks with binder rings (pics to come soonish).
When I cut out the squares from the A4 project board, there were all these edges left.
I just hate to waste anything (especially paper) so I kept them with a binder clip til inspiration struck.
One day I was looking for something in my craft drawer (hey, I need to show you pics), saw my stash of stickers and inspiration struck.
I folded the card in half, stuck on a sticker and that was that.
I was really tempted to get out the washi tape and go wild but that's when I realised my style is much simpler. If you don't like them so plain (some of you will be getting some of these), have at it and go wild. I will not be offended.
I had 42 cards so I made 7 sets of six notecards each with birds, crowns or dragonflies on them.
I then tied some of my Christmas doodle twine on it and voila, a cute little gift :)
I also made some M ones for me and some more with my Moo stickers (separate post because the Moo stuff deserves lots of words).
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| Christmas doodle twine |
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| a few sets ready to go - I did these 4 in a meeting :) (the folding and sticking, not the making pretty) |
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| some more Christmas twine |
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| crowns |
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| Bon-bon Doodle twine |
I may be biased but I think they're gorgeous. They make me very, very happy when I look at them.
If I got some of these in the mail I would SQUEAL :)))))
What do you think?
And now, link up your Christmas or other stuff - cooking/ baking, cards, crafts, decorations, etc.
