DIY Wedding Well Wishes Card

 

Phew, it has been a long couple of weeks.  On Friday, we officially got married (yay!) and on the following Wednesday, we got a surprising and seemingly hastily slapped together email wedding announcement thing (boo!).  I say that because it wasn't a well formatted and cleanly thought out type of wedding announcement via email.   Instead, it was a mass email with nothing more than a casual picture attached and a few words followed by a phone number and address.  Pretty lame.

Yes, the fact that it was three days after our amazing and beautiful wedding was a little disappointing since it was more of an elopement announcement, but at least I found the silver lining.  I got to make an awesome card for the new couple.

Since I had already purchased the bird hole punch for our wedding guest book (I'll tell you more on that later), it was all really simple.  I used construction paper to cut out the birds.  Boom, done.

Next, I googled how to make an origami heart out of money.  Pretty simple, definitely worth the few minutes it took.  Done and done.

Since I already have cardstock on hand, I just cut one out to about the size of a 4x6 since that's the size of the envelopes I had on hand.  From there, I just used double sided tape to place and secure the birds and the origami heart.  Add "congrats lovebirds" and their wedding date, scribble a little something on the back, and mail that sucker off!

I decided to be the bigger person and congratulate the couple.  There's a long back story - we just won't go there.  Instead, let's fawn over this awesomely simple card that anyone can make in just a few short minutes for any kind of love filled occasion since you can customize the wording however you see fit!

DIY Lollypop Favors

Aren't they the cutest?!  Besides the mustache, we're also going to have lips, of course.

If you're not obsessed with See's Candies, then you might not already be familiar with the lollypops we're using.  Well, I absolutely love See's Candies, and I even got Papa Fox to fall in love with the Butterscotch Lollypops, so I figured, why not give them out as favors?  It's simple really.

First, you find and print out the mustache and lips.  I just Googled "lips photo booth" and a whole bunch of options popped up.  They needed to be blown up a bit to be the size I wanted, but it's simple enough.  Also, make sure you print them out on card stock.

Cutting them out was the biggest pain in my butt, but looking at the finished product, they're just too darn cute!  Anyway, cut out the lips and mustaches and use an exacto knife to make an X in the center where you want the lollypop stick to be.  Then just put them on the lollypop stick and admire the adorable little favors!  For ours, we bought the variety box from See's Candies and are also going to put personalized stickers with our picture and the date on each one.

DIY No-Sew Frame Organizer - Part 1

Yesterday I started a new project. Yay!  When we cleaned the house and got everything ready for the garage sale, we came across this picture frame with some kind of preschool achievement or something in it.  Just another bulky item, I assumed, and suggested my mother add it to the "sell" pile. After seeing it on the top of the pile time and time again, it struck me. PROJECT TIME!

I was already in the midst of adjusting and repairing some of my wedding DIY projects, so I just started to experiment with this one, too.  I grabbed some scissors, the fabric I already had from a previous project that I automatically knew would be perfect for this, and, just for some flair, some burlap ribbon.

And you can't forget the handy dandy glue gun!  Like I said, I was already elbow deep in other projects, so handy dandy glue gun was already out and heated up, so I opted not to place it on the floor with my other supplies.  Plus, handy dandy glue gun is my special crafting best friend so he deserves his own glorified photograph.  Oh, and when we put everything together, we'll need an iron, too.

Then I proceeded to try out the two orientations by placing the ribbon both portrait and landscape to see which one I liked best.  I'm feeling the landscaped format the most - it seems to give me the most usable space.

Although the vertical portrait format seems neater to me, and would take up less space if I leaned it on my desk instead of hung it on a wall, but it just feels smaller like this.

As much as I would have loved to jump right into the project and get it all done and put it neatly on my desk, I don't have the space presently.  The garage sale cleared out a great deal of space, but there's still a whole pile of baby stuff that needs to go to another house in preparation for Papa Fox's brother and sister-in-law's move to Hawaii.  For now, I'm going to ponder the orientation of my organizer for another day or so and see how I feel.  And I'm going to need to iron out the fabric, too, so I'll be better off with someone watching Baby Fox or at least during one of his naps.

Stick around for Part 2!