Card in a Box

I finally finished this card for the wonderful young woman who works as our assistant in my grade level.  She has been an enormous help since our class sizes are large this year. I saw a few of these kinds of cards on Pinterest and viewed this tutorial. I wanted to make something bright and happy and sunshiney! All of the products, except for the card stock card base (SU) are from Lawn Fawn.   I water-colored with Distress Markers and cut out each critter.  The dies are on my wish list! I will make a custom envelope for this but it does fit in a standard card sized envelope.  Pretty cute, huh?!

Merry Christmas!

Hello!
I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas day!  It was one of the most peaceful Christmases in a long time and I enjoyed every minute!  My husband was very sweet and picked up some paper crafting goodies for me even though I told him not to.  I had placed a pretty hefty order for myself a while before Christmas and had been holding off using them until Christmas.  I joked that I should have made a tag saying From: Mary To: Mary.  More about those goodies later!

This morning I was having my coffee and looking through my family's Facebook posts from yesterday and had the idea of printing off some of the photos that my niece had been posting of her son.  They were absolutely precious.  I sent an order off via Snapfish to my local pharmacy and drove down in a pretty bad little snow squall to pick them up.  The rest of the day was spent happily scrapping!  Here are some photos.

I kept everything very simple and left plenty of room so my niece can journal. I actually used 4  by 6 Project Life journaling cards between each photo page.  I love how it turned out and I think she'll appreciate having these memories in her hand and not just online.   

Materials

October Afternoon paper and stickers, Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches stamps We R Memory Keepers Cinch binding system