My friend Cathy turns 40 in July, so I have been helping her make invitations and thank you notes. She is hosting high tea at The Farm House in Linden, Johannesburg. I have also made a birthday message book for Cathy. On the day, I will ask all guests to write a special birthday message in the book and then add a picture of each guest onto the back of the message page (I am taking photo's on the day and will hopefully get a photo of Cathy with each guest)
To make the book, I used 12x12 lined scrapbooking paper which I cut into 15cm x 15cm pieces. I inked around the edge of each mini page, and then used my stamps to add words onto the pages. I used 2 O-rings to bind the pages (so that I can add more pages later if needed) and added ribbon to the binding rings. I'm sure she'll like the message book, and that it will become a treasured keepsake. Here are some photo's of the project (apologies for the dark unedited photo's, but I wanted to share them with you)
The front of the invitations
Cathy typed the invitation wording onto vellum
some of the berry coloured paper for the mini book
15cm x 15cm pages
words stamped onto the pages
waiting for the ink to dry; the patterned dots
are on the back of the lined pages
putting it all together
the final product - the birthday message book
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