Peridot Cards

In my last post, I showed the Harry Potter themed baby shower invitations and thank you cards. Those cards led to my next project — another “set” of invites and thank you’s. My friend’s sister was throwing a baby shower and hadn’t found what she was looking for – bumble bees. So I came up with this simple design for the invitations…

and the coordinating Thank You cards.

I had a honeycomb embossing folder in my stash, so was able to make good use of it for both the invitations and the thank you’s. On the invitations the bumble bee is colored using copic markers and a glitter pen (to outline the wings) and the flower is heat embossed.  On the Thank You cards, I used a border punch for the black paper strip and a scalloped circle punch for the sentiment.

Hi. In my first post I wrote about making monogram cards. I had made a set to include in a Christmas gift for a friend. A few months later, she was looking for baby shower invitations and hadn’t been able to find what she was looking for.

So, we made an evening of thumbing through card magazines for ideas. I enjoy looking through magazines for inspiration so have quite a collection. We were able to find a layout she liked and I made a mock up.

Since the baby shower theme was Harry Potter, I went on the hunt for Gryffindor colored paper and coordinating cardstock. The pattern paper is Reminisce – Wizard 101 Collection Plaid 4 which I ordered online. The cardstock, ribbon, and buttons I purchased at my local craft stores. The ink and stamps were already in my stash.

Here is the finished card.

To complete the “set”, I also made coordinating Thank You cards.

My friend wrote the interior text, which continued the Harry Potter theme of witches, wizards and muggles, which I printed on coordinating cardstock and added to the inside of the invitations.