Spiced up Target Invite

Hello all! Long time no see. I've been so busy that I practically disappeared from the internet (WHAT?). Right. Anyway, thanks to a bunch of my family and friends I've finally wrapped up my wedding invitations! I wanted to share with you today how I spiced up the flimsy invitations from Target!

Here's what Target's Letter Impress set looks like out of the box. It is only 35 dollars for 50 invites (including invitation card, envelope, response card & envelope) Flimsy and blah...but definitely has potential!

I knew I wanted an invitation with pockets that can hold additional information for out of town guests. So off I go to create my own envelope and information cards! In addition, I wanted to "style" it so it's not SO Target-y.

The material I used:

• Bazzil Kraft cardstock (One 12x12 for each envelope)
• Bazzil Espresso cardstock
• Recollection Ivory cardstock (50 sheets for 3 dollars at Michael's. What a steal.)
• Scalloped circle punch
• Corner rounder punch
• Some camping twine

Here are the results!!!

From Craft Now. Eat Later.

From Craft Now. Eat Later.

From Craft Now. Eat Later.

Reduce Reuse Recycle

One of my new year's resolution is to reduce, reuse and recycle...and what better way to kick it off than a fun crafty project?

I accidentally found that my Copics fit perfectly into the little Coffee Bean tea bag tin container and this immediately triggered a tin makeover and here it is!

Before:


After:

I felt so accomplished dressing something up that would've otherwise ended up in the trashcan. It's like I gave it new life or something...haha. Maybe I am just easily satisfied....but I am totally addicted! More to come for sure!

What have you dressed up lately?

Europe Mini Album

Last year in October I had taken a 2 week trip to Europe and I had the most amazing time! I hit 5 cities - Paris, Berlin, Prague, Venice and Rome- (actually 6 if you count Vatican City!) and went hog wild with my camera. I racked up approximately 3000 snapshots. Even to this day, I am only done sorting through 2/5 of it. Awesome. Anyway, the idea of scrapping every worthy photos from that trip really scares me. You have got to work up to it, you know? So here's my warmup round - 5 city mini book -

I am still trying to figure out a way to scrap about 1000 travel photos efficiently....any ideas?

Merry Christmas to all!

Sharing some gift tags I've made for this joyful time of the year ~ This is done using Studio Calico's December add-on kit- :







Hope everyone is keeping warm and having lots of happy time with family!

Little clusters of goodness

Recently I've been super inspired by simplicity. Less is more.

Some source of inspiration

Paislee Press

Life. Love. Paper.

Some really gorgeous portraits!

One week day last week I was so inspired by Paislee Press that I SO wanted to bolt from my day job and just come home and create. However I did manage to regain some control of my body and waited on the the clock struck 5PM. Then I bolted.

So here it is!

My Mind's Eye's sketch challenge

Here's the sketch...

And here's my take!

Show me your take!