DIY Butterfly Birthday card

Inspired by this pin, I made this with my Cameo, but wouldn't be a difficult one to do the old fashioned way provided you have the right punches. The sentiment isn't real clear in the picture, but it reads "Hope this year is your best one yet". Super easy and highly adorable.

Kyoto Kuties Birthday Card

If you are the kind of person who roams the internet in search of free files to pair with your Cricut or Cameo but haven't yet come across the Kyoto Kuties, you have been missing out, my friend! The free SVG file  actually comes in several formats other than just what was compatible with my Cameo, and includes a readme to inform you which format works best with your machine.

 The designs included with the Kyoto Kuties pack are obviously very cute, and excellent quality. Lots of layers make each image detailed and nicely dimensional. The card base is my own design that was pretty easily assembled out of the design tools and freebie shapes that were included with my Cameo. I really liked the peekaboo design for looks, but discovered I hadn't planned well to leave space for writing. I suppose this is a great option for those people that you care enough about (or are obligated enough ;) ) to send a card to, but are just a little bit lost for words. 

Overall however, I am quite pleased with the way this one turned out. 

Receipt Roll Letters

At work recently I was changing the receipt paper in one of the machines that claimed to be empty. I was surprised to find there was still a good three or four feet remaining, so instead of tossing it out I thought it'd be good material for a (rather unusual at the very least) letter. :)

Hopefully the post office will let it through. I put it in a regular envelope all rolled up, so it might have too much varying thickness. I guess we'll see!

Today's Outgoing: April 16, 2015

Sending more missionary mail...

But guess what!! I finally found a relatively easy to access option to blank out addresses without that crappy MS Paint-style crayon looking garbage I've been doing since I normally post from my phone. (If you didn't know, I don't have internet at home). Look how beautiful! Look how smooth! Look how {relatively} flawless!Apparently Google Drive has a few photo editing programs built in, so whenever I have internet access on a desktop, I'll be able to clean them up nicely before posting. Hooray!

Easy DIY Watercolor Envelopes

As the subject line states, this is a really easy project. The painting process probably takes less than one minute per person, and just a couple minutes to dry. (Definitely a good option if you find you are behind on letters, but still want to have a nice touch to the letters you send.)

Headed out to Cathleen in Washington!

DIY Cupcake Birthday Cards

Made half a dozen cupcakes from scratch... PAPER!

See what I did there?

Today's Outgoing: April 2, 2015

Birthday cards

More missionary mail.

Feeling pleased with myself. Work was pretty busy today, but I still managed to squeeze out 2 missionary letters and 2 birthday cards! Olaf will probably arrive late, but at least he'll arrive!

I really gotta make some more cards. I am pretty cleaned out!