Wedding Card Project!

Well, it has been a couple of weeks since me last post. I've been keeping quite busy with projects, especially ones on my New Year's List!

On my personal list, I've been trying to go through a couple of food magazines a week and taking out recipes I want and then tossing the magazines in the recycling...I still have a ton left.
I did complete my wedding cards project, which I'm excited to share with you a little bit later and I have so far lost 7 lbs! Yay for me! I'd still have a ways to go but I love seeing the numbers go down! I decided that each time I lose 10 pounds I'm going to treat myself to a mani/pedi...something to look forward to! I'm a little worried that with my Hunny's birthday this weekend I may derail though...he's already told me he wants me to make a marble cake with mint chocolate frosting and he wants to do a birthday lunch at a restaurant down the street that makes all sorts of mac and cheese, followed by dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant...I feel the lbs coming back...I'm already planning on what to order to keep within the diet...ugh! Why does delicious food have to be bad!?!?! End rant...

I've also been busy with a couple home improvement projects. I've been filling my empty walls with frames. I was able to score a bunch of frames for real cheap at Michael's recently!

Here's how they turned out!

Still need to pick up a few more frames for the blue wall and I need to order prints for most of the frames. I love how it's all coming together!

Okay, here is my Wedding Card Project I promised!

I first picked out the tallest card and the fattest card and used them to cut out two pieces of cardboard (front and back) that was as tall and as fat as them.

I then sprayed one side of each of the cardboard pieces with spray glue and laid them sticky side down on to their own piece of card stock. I used  card stock left over from when I made my wedding invites so it would tie in to our wedding.

I then cut the edges down but left enough to wrap the paper over the edges of the cardboard and then glued them down. I decided to keep with our wedding them and used my Martha Stewart lace stamp that I had used on our invites to make the title strip and I used a left over purple cut out from the personalized drink stirrers to give it a little pop. (this is the front the back comes later)

Then attached a wedding photo of Hunny and I and added little brackets to the corners to help hold the picture in place, I used a paper hole punchers to make a hole in the upper left corner for the metal ring and I wrote Wedding Cards in the title strip.

 

 I then punched holes in the corner of each card and put it all together!

 

Sorry, I forgot to take more pictures of the back, but I used the same punches as the front and added a little brass sticky frame I bought in the scrapbooking section of Michael's. I then cut out a little square piece of ivory card stock and wrote Happily Ever After and placed it in the little frame. This was such a fun and easy project and I love the fact that I can somewhat display our wedding cards instead of storing them in a box or tossing them out!

Well, I'm signing off for now and I'll try to remember to take pictures of Hunny's cake I'm making and post about it next week!