Chelsey - Avert Your Eyes!

All I can say, is this is a step in the right direction. That direction is headed straight to creativity and scrapbooking once again. I always write the date I completed a layout on the back side of the paper, and it turns out it's been since May 17 - that's almost 2 months now! Wow, I really need to get back on track, my ever-running list of pages is getting a bit overwhelming!

Okay, so this past Friday was my stagette, and Saturday was my bridal shower (photos to come in the next few days). I cannot believe how much those three girls (not to mention a couple cousins and aunts) did for me! The planning, time, creativity, money - they blew me away! Immediately after Brittany and Kas left for home late Saturday night, I told Justin I needed to find a nice way to thank them - right away. Tonight I started working on that plan - I made cards for my maid of honor and two bridesmaids. (Tomorrow night I plan on making thank you cards for my shower guests, and I'll do a post about those too!)

Inspiration for these cards came from this card by Cindy Lee. I was snooping through her blog earlier today, and really loved the shape that came by rounding the edges of two opposite corners. I knew exactly how I wanted my cards to look, and they came together perfectly.

Before I started on those cards, I assembled our wedding invitations. Inevitably something will go wrong, when we started working on how we wanted our invitations to look (with a local printing company), we were told once we decided and okay'd the final design, they'd take about 2-3 days to print. Well, turns out it took a day less than two weeks. Our RSVP reply-by-date was July 1st. Well, seeing as how we didn't get the invitations back until June 25, that didn't leave us much time. Justin complained about the problem, and they re-printed the RSVP card for us. Now they say July 15th - making me much happier (and less stressed).

I was very much a little factory tonight. It took me a bit to determine what the best steps were to glue a pocket on the inside of the invitations, but once I figured that out, I was on a roll! Once completed, the invitations were lined up on the table, making them easier to count. After I was all done, it was a little bit eery looking at all of them lined up:

Tomorrow I need to find some clear circle stickers to hold the flap closed, then they can get off the table, get mailed out, and stop creeping me out!