New Baby Boy

My friend just had a baby, and part of her gift from me was some handmade baby announcements. They aren't spectacular, but here is what they looked like.



I also did a "keepsake" page for her scrapbook, what was done in the same sort of style as the announcement.

The background paper is DCWV Spring stack 2007.

More Keepsake Cards...

This is my latest batch of keepsake cards.

This one is for a young couple (newlyweds), where the husband is down range (hence the use of pinks, reds, and lots of hearts). I included some tags and other embellishments.




This one is for a mother and her 6 children (hence the larger foldout), whose husband and father, is down range. I included a little packet of embellishments for them to choose from.

Project Keepsake -- Take Two

I finished another keepsake card for a woman in our church who's husband is deployed to Iraq. Just in case you can't tell from the photos, the base cardstock is navy blue.

The stars are dry embossed.
Card opened.

Fold out front side.

Fold Out Back Side

Embellishments I included in her kit, just some tags, and a lined writing block.

Project Keepsake

I tried this project out on my Mom for Mother's Day, and she like it. I decided to start a project making these keepsake cards for every family I know, who has a deployed soldier (in either Iraq or Afghanistan).

This is an example of one of the cards I made. The front is just plain white cardstock, overlaid with a decorative paper, and topped with vellum, that I dry embossed with simple designs. I tacked them all together using metallic eyelets, and threaded normal ribbon through (trying to color coordinate the ribbon with the decorative paper).



The outside of the card and the inside are two separate pieces. I glued the inside accordion fold out piece in using craft glue, and just tacked it to the inside back of the actual card. The inside of the card, starts out with a "title page" for the individual to write something, or put a photo.




The rest of the card is a fold out, kind of like the accordion photo things from a wallet. It gives space to put photos (or other mementos like hand prints, foot prints, dried flowers, etc), on both front and back. I put in a text box (with colored paper backing) for this individual to write a personal message on. It's just a fancy lined paper, backed with colored cardstock.



I am hoping to get these out to all the families soon (I've already delivered two of them), in a sort of project pack. I put the card and envelope in, with some extra text blocks, and then some cardstock blocks and decorative blocks, so they can add and embellish as they like.