Sian has had another brilliant idea for a Monday post. The idea is to incorporate a piece of happy mail (snail mail, catalog . . . something that arrived in the mail during the week that captured your interest.) Since I'm visiting Sarah, I have no mail from the last week to share, and most of my recap was posted yesterday, but I do have something to share.
Right before the holidays I got a catalog from The Company Store. It's full of inspiration, and there are always multiple products that I'd love to have, but most are out of my price range. This time, however, I pulled out a page and saved it. As soon as I saw the add for a beautiful pillow, I had an idea for a card. While we were waiting for Sarah's call about the baby, I got the early January birthday cards made, and a number of thank you cards that I wanted to get in the mail before we left. One of the thank you cards was inspired by the pillow in the catalog.
You can see the page from the catalog behind the card. The "Winter Hills" stamp set from Papertrey Ink came immediately to mind when I saw the pillow. The little bird is from "Through the Trees." The trees were embossed with white and platinum embossing powder. I had to emboss the birds on separate paper and fussy cut them since the red embossing powder didn't show up well on the dark gray card. I embossed a few snowflakes between the trees as well. The photo above shows the card before I added the sentiment.
I added the simple sentiment to a vellum banner, and hid the adhesive behind a silver enamel dot.
While I had the "Winter Hills" set on my desk, I made several more thank you cards (all the same design.) These were based on a card I found on Pinterest, simple and fast when you need several cards in a hurry.
As for me, it' still going well with Sarah and Hannah. Adam, however, had an accident on the way home from work today, and their Yaris was totaled. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the driver who caused the accident took full responsibility for it from the start. They've been planning to buy a new van which will more easily accommodate two car seats, so this will most likely speed up that process.
Thanks to Sian for another great weekly meme, and waving to the other Monday Memo posters!
