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To all three of my followers, both active and inactive, and anyone who happens to stumble upon my little corner here, HELLO! As you probably noticed (or NOT!) I haven't been posting updates on this blog lately. I have recently transferred to a new home at www.crafthartic.com where I let out stress in a more productive medium--crafting. The purpose of this blog was to be a repository of all my rants and ramblings which I dare not air on personal social media. Like I said, I have found ways to divert my energy and I would very much appreciate it if you join me in my new home.

Hope to see you there!

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Personalized Gift Card Keeper

I seem to have a habit of not making a habit of updating this blog—surprise,surprise. A lot has happened since my last post both uneventful and extraordinary. One of the extraordinary ones was – I got married! It’s been two months since the wedding and the house clutter from then has not lessened. Some of our wedding gifts are still in the living room while we find a space to store the yet unused ones in. We have a lot of generous and thoughtful family, friends, co-workers, and clients who gave us gifts that we ended up with a huge pile of torn, unusable wrapping paper after opening every single present. We threw the wrapping paper but saved the gift cards as souvenirs. Most of the cards had handwritten messages on them that throwing them away would be such a waste.

The handwritten messages on these gift cards are too precious to throw away.

So I bought a regular kraft album from the local school supplies store, a multi-purpose glue-stick, and some poster paint (black).

To make this:

My calligraphy skill is below minimum so I’d just say I “scribbled” the word “gifts” on the cover of the kraft album using a regular watercolor brush. I had some gel pens with gold ink saved from the wedding which I used on the borders of my doodle and to add some details on it.

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See how gold pops on black.

After the poster paint dried, I just put some glue on the back of the gift cards and randomly placed each one on the pages.

I indicated the gifts on the tags so I'd remember who they're from

It took me less than an hour to finish this album but I’ll have years-worth of memories of the well wishes of friends and family.