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.
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| 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.
(pics)
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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.
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| 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.
