Source: simplemom.net via Gretchen on Pinterest
A few months ago, I found this image on pinterest! There was a gift bag full of wedding cards under one of the end tables in our living room, and this seemed like a great idea for them. They could be a browsable memento instead of a bag full of stuff. :)
After measuring the largest wedding card and deciding upon a 10" x 7" size book, I went to Michael's and bought a pack of white card stock, some more roll-on adhesive and the largest rings I could find, which were actually in the embroidery section!
We had around 200 people at our wedding. I still haven't finished my Ireland scrap-book from four years ago and haven't even started our wedding scrap book. In other words, I tend to let perfectionism stall me seriously, so I had to consciously avoid that in this project. One thing that helped was to work on the book while watching Simon Schama's A History of Britain documentary. Instead of spending a lot of time working on each page, I moved quickly, saving the hand-written parts first and the pretty parts second and using a paper cutter to make swift slices. I glued in ribbons left over from our pew decorations to divide the cards by family, church friends, school friends, and the like.
It's not exactly like the one on pinterest, but it's done! And I'm so glad. Perhaps I'll have our wedding album done by our third anniversary. :) But I should finish that Ireland album first. :)
Very nice idea! I have ours in a box in the closet but this looks prettier. I understand about the perfectionism stalling things. I still need to finish Stephanie's baby book and she just turned 3!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea. I'm in the same boat. Hopefully, our wedding album will be finished by our 3rd anniversary.
ReplyDeleteI did that more the graduation cards I received, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to do the same for the cards from our wedding!I think I will have to put it on my list of projects now :)
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