Two Cards

Seriously, this card took me all of about two minutes, five maybe - but that would include the little bit that I thought I didn't have enough time to make a card before we had to leave the house! I love how this card came together; I didn't think: I just rooted through my pile of scrap paper to see if I had anything I liked, found some more of that pink cardstock, cut it, folded it, grabbed the floral paper, thought for a second to punch a circle in the card to have a peep effect, punched the floral paper, punched the card, then grabbed some ribbon and put it all together. I love that it looks like I took my time to think, and plan it out - it looks really fancy to me!

The card was for Justin's mum - it was her birthday yesterday. I really like making cards for her because she just fawns over them. And, they can be girlier than cards for my mum - although she has stepped out of her little box, or should I say I pushed her. (Plus, you can see our fantastic fence, and some discarded pieces of sod - the yard is looking beautiful.)

And on Monday, wedding crack down happened. We worked so hard on getting lots of things done that were time consuming. In the morning I worked on my bridal shower thank you cards. I was a one woman assembly line. I went to town, trying to figure out how to maximize the paper I had bought for this project a week after my shower (yes, still trying to figure out a time to sit down and upload those pictures!), I had really good intentions for these getting out much sooner, but life happens!

The base stamp, the one with the numbers in it (it's a little bit hard to see because I stamped it basically the same colour as the cardstock), is from a vacation stamp set that I purchased to use for our honeymoon layouts. Sometime you just need to think outside the box (the one that I pushed my mum out of!), and use a prodcut differently than it was intened to be used. Now looking at the cards, it's like "let me count the ways I am thankful for you," and the numbers are all the things I'm thankful for that the recipiant did! Yea, I may be stretching it, and reading into this more than anyone else ever will!

Filling those out was fun at first, then after the first half it just seemed like I wasn't being creative, and was saying the same thing over and over - hopefully they all made sense!