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More Personalized Valentines Day cards are completed! Here are a few. Still working on a few more...

Happy Birthday Carrie!

Here's a pretty birthday card for Carrie's 27th birthday!

Logan and William

I had the opportunity to work with Logan on her Monogram package. She knew exactly what she wanted, and was so great at describing her vision. She was looking for a little help in designing monograms and graphics for her DIY projects for her wedding, so here are her golden graphics...

She also ordered the background of this one separately to help embellish her projects...

SOUL MATES -- Sonya's Valentines Day Card

I'm so excited. My Personalized Valentines Day Cards had a good sale weekend! I wanted to post Sonya's card, because it's slightly different from the others I made. She asked to put "SOUL MATES" along with the names... So this is what I came up with. Luckily both their names fit into the spaces she asked me. If you had a longer name, I'd probably invert the positions, and put "Soul Mates" at the bottom.

Valentines Day: Personalized Greeting Card

Here is my first Valentines Day Card for Melissa. It's the custom cut greeting card, where I can put any message on there for you. Melissa asked for lot of hearts, and requested the white foreground, and red background. I actually had to make two of these because I mis-calculated the center, and screwed up the fold on the first one. Bah. I have to remember my dad's advice: "measure twice, cut once." Applies to many things. Oh well. The final card is way cute -- I used a metallic white cardstock and red lining. If you are interested in having your own unique card made, visit my etsy shop!

Kristi and Tim: more Table Numbers and Program sample

I had posted a sample of Kristi's table numbers (and monograms) a while back, but I had completed the rest of them, and wanted to post them again. Her theme is pink and Lemongrass green, and some bling in green.

She also needed a "reserved" card for her and Tim's places at the reception. The chairs at the venue wouldn't be able to hold a large sign tied to the back, so we went with tent-style 6X6 cards.

My next step for Kristi's wedding, are her programs. She wants to have fan paddle programs, which is pretty easy to make -- except I didn't like the look of plain popsicle sticks. So I decided to stain them a dark brown. I started off staining them with a wood stain in a "dark mahogany." But ick. After a whole afternoon of spray staining 50 sticks, they looked like popsicle sticks that had a Fudgsicle melted on it or something. I didn't even want to take photos of it. Sooooo, after all that work, JP (my hubbie) suggested I spray paint them instead. Back to Michaels I went, and bought a dark brown spray paint, and Viola! chocolate brown sticks that looked worthy of a wedding reception. So here's a sneak peak of a sample program I just put together for her.

To complete the look, and to make the fan program look a bit more upscale, I rounded the corners with a large corner hole puncher.

DIY TIP: Make sure you use HEAVY CARDSTOCK (81lb or 105lb). Especially if your popsicle stick has been painted. Your guests will be using these outdoors, and you can see through light cardstock. So the thicker the better. But not too thick! You want your printer to be able to pick it up...

Ramsey's Word Book Album

Now a little break away from wedding projects. I finally had the chance to complete a Word Book Album for Nazza's son, Ramsey. He's turning 18 in a couple months, and she wanted to give him something very unique and special. So she ordered a completed album from me. It's taken me a few months, but here is the completed book. I used a few store-bought stickers, and made a couple titles on my own. I just kept adding little things here and there, and now I hope Nazza will be happy with the result...