Monograms

These cards came about in an interesting way - I had a stack of RSVP cards left-over from the wedding last year.  They were printed on creamy heavy cardstock and clean on the inside.  In a moment of inspiration, I saw that I could make a card front to cover the RSVP information and I would have a set of small-ish (3 1/2" x 5") cards for general notes that either I or Steve could use!  The envelopes were already stamped (with forever stamps, thankfully) so I was good to go!  The new monogram stamps from Close-to-My-Heart are $2.95 and just wonderful!  You can see what a pretty image they give!  The stamp doesn't include the brown / green border circle - that came out of another set.  If I had a Cricut I could have used it to cut out the image with the new CTMH Artiste cartridge but in this case I did it by hand while talking to Steve on Skype one evening.  The only other "trick" was that I used a little piece of string to tie up the center of the 2" wide silk ribbons so they would gather up under the monogram medallion.  Easy!  AND - fairly flat - no bumps to require extra postage.

It's Saturday (finally) and I'm expecting the barn-door contractor to show up in a little while.  He's bringing over the hardware, but ALAS, not the door yet.  Why, oh why is it so hard to get remodeling done on a time line?  We should have had this done by the 4th of July.  {deep sigh}

I hope your weekend is filled with fun and friends!
Namaste.