Paper and Ribbons and Stamps! Oh My!: Monogram

Monday, January 31, 2011

Monogram Gift Set - MTME February Release

Hey blogland folks,
It's Feb 1 and time for Lauren's newest release for My Time Made Easy! Lauren has a new template and 3 new stamp sets this month, along with cut files and some gorgeous digital papers. Here's what I've cooked up for today.

I love the new Monograms Defined stamp set and decided to make a set of notes for my boss. He is SO good about jotting notes to people in our work system but I know that sometimes he'd like to jot a really short note! :-) so I made him a set of mini cards.... (3x3) - they are not big enough to mail but they are PERFECT to tuck onto a keyboard on someone's desk :-)

I used the black and white papers from the new Serenity collection. These printed up beautifully. I then stamped "from the desk of" onto the top edge (love the dots in the center of the O's") from the Monograms Defined set - then stamped his first initial into the center of the card. I wanted a "framed look" without extra matting so I cut some frames using my cricut. That gave some dimension AND a framed effect. Here's what my mat looked like when I took out the frames after cutting...

The Monograms Defined set includes a "handmade by" stamp which I used on the back to personalize my cards.

And I added the "Just a Note" to the back of the envelope flaps...

And finally I packaged it all up in the WONDERFUL new mini Card Candy template! This held my 6 note cards perfectly!!!

Here is the box opened up...

I tied up my notes with a slip of ribbon since they wanted to pop open on me for my photograph. :-)

Now - when I put the box together I realized I forgot to adhere my ribbon before I glued on the inside cover layer. OH OH - new plan - Since this was a masculine set I decided to make the closure more masculine as well and used two large silver brads instead. He just needs to wraps the snippet of silver twine around the two brads to keep the box closed.

FINALLY - I made him a birthday card to go with the set. I used the frame stamp from Framed Elegance set - popped in a sentiment from So Sentimental and the Happy Birthday sentiment from the same set under the frame.