A couple of months ago we had a bridal shower at work for one of our staff and this is the card I made her. The polka dot paper, ribbon, and stamps came from Hobby Lobby and the teal card stock is Stampin Up. I embossed the stamps in metallic silver.
Back in February when I hosted a baby shower for my BFF she received a gift that was inside these decorative boxes. When we were cleaning up she started to throw them away! What?! So of course I took them, knowing I could find something to do with them. I decided to make coordinating cards so I can use these as gift boxes for birthdays. Here are the boxes and the cards I made for each. There is also matching ribbon for each box to tie it closed.
The big project that I have been working on is pulling together all of my pictures and 'keepsakes' then organizing them so that I can make scrapbooks or shadowboxes. I'm tired of storing this stuff in boxes, taking up room in my garage and closets, when it could be in scrapbooks or hung on a wall in my house to actually look at and enjoy. I've scanned a lot of stuff that I'd like to keep but don't necessarily want to put in a scrapbook so that I can throw some of it away. Here are a couple of shadowboxes I've done.
This one is of some keepsakes from my high school drill team days. I also have a large scrapbook with more. And yes, that is a real tiger that I'm sitting next to in the photo.
With this one it finally hit me what to do with all of my tassels...yes, I have four. Shadowbox!!!! So simple, yet so cool.
Tonight I'm going over to a friends for crafting with the girls! I'll finally start on my Christmas cards.
