These are inspired by a project we did in a Stampin' Up! hostess class with Lisa Marie. I had some paper from Walmart I wasn't sure what I wanted to with. I do that a lot. I see cute paper and buy it in case I find a project that would be perfect for it. :) Am I alone in this? I hope not.
Anyway, this is a great project for those times when you need a quick and easy gift. I made one for the daughter of our grade level chair. She was in the 2nd grade, I think, and she came to my room during a teacher planning day and helped me with classroom organization that needed to be taken care of.
A great tutorial on this project can be found at Dawn's Stampin' Thoughts.
Here is the brightly colored one. I have not embellished the cards yet or stamped any kind of sentiment. I haven't decided what I want to do yet. I'm thinking I'm going to just add some bling and leave it sentiment-free so whoever I give it to can make it into whatever they need it to be. I used the same paper to make the envelopes so that they coordinate. I love the bright colors!
The black and cream looks elegant (it's even better in person, let me tell you). I made four of the same card. That's why there's only one picture of the card. The envelopes for that one are just like the ones I made for my last post so no picture. Hope that's okay. :)
You can't tell it, but the ribbon that it hangs from is a cream grosgrain. Sorry about that.
By the way, the 6 x 6 page protectors are no longer available from Stampin' Up!, but one of the ladies in my scrapbook group used regular 8.5 x 11 and just cut them down to 6 inches in height. I've also see them done with 8 x 8 and cut down to 6 inches in height. This is one of those projects that there are no rules for. You use what you can find and make it work. I love those kinds of projects! Don't you?
The cards featured this time are from a one-sheet wonder that a friend shared with me. I don't know where she got it from, but you can find OSWs by doing a google search. There are a lot of free ones, and some that are sold for a small fee. I don't usually buy things I can make on my own, but OSWs are worth paying for. :)
This one is cool, because it is digital. She gave it to me in a PDF file so I used some of my digital paper from MyGrafico and the turned the paper over and printed out the OSW on the back. Cutting it was a breeze this way. Then all I did was raid my Stampin' Up! card stock supply for matching colors. I was so happy! I found four perfect papers. That doesn't always happen, but this set must have been meant to be. :)
The base of the cards is Very Vanilla and the coordinating colors are Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, and More Mustard. The box is from a great craft blog called Jill's Card Creations. What a great marriage between projects!
Here come the pictures! Enjoy! Leave a comment and let me know what you think. :)
The cards:
This one has bling issues. I'm going to have to reposition them. Somehow they didn't get set right on top of the adhesive. :(
The box:
I think I'm going to find
paper for the sentiment that is a little closer to the color of the
background paper. It matches the base of the card, but it stands out
oddly here I think.
The tutorial says that it
will hold 4-6 cards and envelopes, but I have 8 cards in there and there
is room for 8 envelopes. The invitation envelopes from Walmart don't
fit, so I'll have to get some smaller ones. This is going to be a great
gift! :)
