Showers

I made this card about a month ago for Troy's cousin's wedding shower. I used a bathtub scrapbooking sticker set and added a showerhead that I made out of paper. I used a paperclip as my curtain rod and make a curtain out of scrapbook paper. I was having a hard time with the curtain/rod combination, so Troy helped me out with that. He's actually a lot better at creative things than I am; I get his help a lot.





This is an envelope/box I made to hold the card because it was too thick to put in a regular envelope. I altered this template I found on the Mirkwood Designs blog. I clearly haven't ever made any envelopes or boxes before because I had a lot of trouble getting it to work Troy fixed it all though! My first problem was that I punched holes right on top of each other in the flap and the envelope. This made it impossible to tie it shut...so Troy found a way to wrap it around so it didn't look totally awkward. My second problem was that I altered the width of the sides properly, but forgot to adjust the lid and bottom. Oh well...I made it fit :)


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I decided to share this card today because yesterday I had my first bridal shower! It was a lot of fun...but I have at least 40 thank you cards I need to write now! I originally thought I would make all my thank you cards by hand...but after I realized how many gifts we would end up getting between 2 showers and the wedding; I quickly scrapped that idea. I don't have any pictures from the shower yet, but I'll try to take a picture of my stack of gifts to share. It is unbelievable how generous people are...we got a ton of stuff! One of my favorite gifts was a book that one of my great aunts coauthored. It is a cookbook but it was written with the historical society where she lives, so it also includes a ton of historical facts about the city and historical cooking, health, and cleaning recipes. It's a really neat book! My grandpa was 1 of 15 children, so my family's name is mentioned all over the book and there are pictures of a few of my great-aunts and my mom's cousins! Many of the recipes were from my family too. It's such a neat gift! I also got the portable fabric steamer I registered for...I'm super excited because I want it to steam my wedding dress and my bridesmaids dresses since they are all flying in...that way we don't have to pay for it! There were so many other fun gifts...everyone was so generous! Only 7 more weeks (from Saturday) until the wedding!!!