Thursday, June 18, 2009

With Love

Awhile ago I had cleaned out all this stuff from my laundry room. See that white basket? In there I found a few years worth of Valentine/Christmas cards from the girls' school parties.

That prompted me to take those cards & finally DO something with them. I think way back when, I had planned on scrapping them & making some sort of pocket page to include the cards...but we're talking 5 years worth of cards so I made this simple.

For some reason I always have a hard time when it comes to single pic LO's. So I flipped through Laura's blog looking for something that would work & sure enough she came through...as always! You can see her original LO here, I stuck to the design & was pretty happy with how easy & quick this came together.
Bet you're wondering what I did with the Valentine cards I mentioned earlier. To make this easy (meaning less work) I used these pocket pages & simply slid the cards into the pockets. Some of the cards are doubled up front & back to take up less space. Since I had a lot of scraps left over I made a card. The metal sign says "Hug", I figure this could be for anyone & not necessarily a "Valentine" or "Love" card.
Had a hard time taking a pic of the card. The paper is sort of shiny/metallic so there's a glare to the pic. Looks better IRL.
Layout:
Papers--Reminisce (glad to use up some of that stash!)
Letters--American Crafts Thickers (Vinyl)
Journaling Spot--Martha Stewart
Ribbon--American Crafts (??)
Misc--buttons, brads & string
Card:
Papers--Reminisce
Flower--Heidi Swapp
Border Punch--Stampin' Up
Metal tag--Making Memories
Misc--button

3 comments:

{Susan...Seriously.} said...

i've got them all in a bag too...guess, i need to do something with them too...

looks good!

Carla said...

what a great lift and an incredible way to use those cards!! Cute!

laura vegas said...

love what you did with this sara! i have all my girls valentines from school too .. and also had plans of some sort of pocket page at some point. LOVE the idea of using the divided page protectors to hold them!