Congratulations!

Wednesday night, one of my friends on twitter was asking if anyone local made greeting cards, as she was looking for something very specific, and didn't have time to order from Etsy. I asked what it was she was looking for, as I may be able to help. She wanted deep purple, and able to hold money. Then she sent me this link, and asked if I could make something similar. I was on my way to the Cave anyway, so sure, I'd give it a shot.

After some googling (did you know a dollar bill is approx 6.25"x2.75"?) and futzing with some measurements and sentiments, I came up with this (closed):

which when opened looks like this:

I used almost a full sheet of Rich Razzleberry paper, scored from the bottom at 2", 5" and 8". The bottom section folds up to make a pocket (sides sealed with red tape) and perfectly fits a dollar bill of your choosing. The "middle" section (really inches 5-8) has shimmery white card stock matted on it for writing, and then the top flap is plain, save for the heart I punched out of velcro for secure closing. (the other half of the velcro is on hte back of hte money pocket). 

I was pretty pleased with how everything turned out, so I thought I'd attempt a custom envelope to go with the custom card. I pulled out the handy MS score-board, and  after a few attempts, got a pretty nice envelope (white shimmer paper) to go with the card. I stuck some double sided tape on a scrap of the silver paper, and punched a heart out of it, and stuck it to the top of the envelope flap. When the waxy paper comes off the tape, it will be a perfect little closure for the envelope... see? Thoughts on the finished product?

A commissioned card - final version #2

So when I posted the card on Wed. night, I said I was happy with it, yadda, but at some point today, I got to thinking about changing it up (again), as I wasn't really happy with the scroll message. Like the scrolls themselves, but something was nagging.

I decided to separate the two banners & just write ONE & MILLION in them, and writing the rest right on the card (top says you're one in a million). This meant another card face, and more cutting, but meh, worth it in the end (I hoped)...

Lo & behold, much nicer. Leslie pointed out suggested I should've used white gel pen on the PP cardstock instead of chocolate brown sparkle marker, but it was too late. I dunno tho, I think it worked. Thoughts?

Oh, and because I hadn't spent enough time on this (freebie) project, I made another bird out of shimmer paper, and cut her name out, and xyron'd 'em and attached to the envelope. Now it all just ties together. Voilà!

Also? When you are trying to blog at 130 or whatever in the morning, on your phone & you're exhausted, spelling is atrocious. Just sayin...

A commissioned card...

One of the ladies at work is retiring, and my old manager asked me to make a card for her. Fine, no prob.

Then he told me he'd like it based on this coin. Oh. Okay. That makes things a bit more difficult, but whatever.

I knew that I wanted to use Lawn Fawn's Bannerific set, but after that, I had no sweet clue how I'd incorporate the elements of the coin onto a card. A big card too (5.5 x 8.5).

After much consultation on Twitter tonight with the fab Leslie (@crookedstamper), and many many prototypes, I came up with this. And honestly, I'm happy with it. it's not my favorite card by any stretch, but it's DONE, and I don't hate it. Win Win.

See? Not horrid. (and if you think it's horrid, pls don't tell me. i've expended enough energy on this card)

As you can see from the pic, I also decided to go all out and make a matching envelope. Except I didn't realize what a PITA making an envelope for a HUGE card was. Even with my fancy MS scoring tool (a 'score' (hee) at Michael's one day for $15), it was still a PITA. Ah well. now I know.

Oh, also a PITA? Using my circle cutter. Although the circles did work out in the end, I scrapped a LOT of paper in the process. So glad I'm selling the effer this weekend :P

So there you have it. I have made it in to the craft room, and lived to tell. There's another post scheduled for Monday... see you then!

FTR, the card is a Very Vanilla base, with Pacific Point mat. The scallop and smallest circle are some metallic platinum-y paper I had, and the middle circle is PP. The bird is VV, and branch is Old Olive DSP.The envelope is made of a single sheet of PP DSP . Bird & branch are the SU punch...