Blog, you should see my house this
week. Everywhere you look, there are pieces of projects. I have probably 3-4
projects started. What I would like to know is why I can't start a project,
finish it, and then move on? Why do I like to torture myself? It's really hard
to write a blog post about a half-finished project. I must work on this.
Tonight though, I finally finished
my card box. I wanted something pretty and that matched our theme, and since I
love taking on projects, why not this too? I bought my supplies back in
September, and then.....they sat in my closet. I think part of the reason was
because I was looking for the "right" inspiration on how to make
mine....and then, one day last month, I found it!
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I loved the natural color and the simplistic details. I had seen other ones on Etsy that I liked, but they were almost $100! And while I wasn't 100% sure
how to go about making one of these, I knew I could probably figure it out and
spend much less.
I got my boxes from holcraft.com
(around $22), and purchased my striped ribbon from eBay (seriously!) for around
$5. The flower on the top "layer" I bought at Michael's for $4.99 and
I made the green bow thanks to this tutorial from Weddingbee using $1
ribbon.
Total cost: $33 :) Want to see the
final result??
| Personal photo, sorry, it's a little blurry |
On a funny sidenote, half way
through the project, I was so excited to show it to Keither...his response 'oh
that's really nice' .... me 'do you know what it is?'.....him 'uhhh not
really'.
HA, men! Gotta love 'em. In case
there are other people at our wedding who won't know what this is, I will be
adding a sign to the middle layer that says "cards". :)
I'm really happy with how this box
came out, and can't wait to display it at our wedding reception along with all
our other goodies and see it all come together. So far, this has been one
of the easiest DIY projects I've done!
Has anyone
else tackled a DIY cardbox? Do you think I need to add anything to mine, or
change anything?
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