Last weekend my friends threw a wonderful bridal shower for me (more about that later). Naturally, my Mom was here for the occasion and she spent the night. She told me before she came that she wanted to work on a wedding project while she was here. I decided that a good task for us to tackle would be the menu cards.
There was some prep work to be done before she arrived. First I designed the page so that we’d get three menu cards out of one 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. We repeated the font from the invitation. Next I printed a master sheet and copied it onto the lighter blue metallic paper used in the invitation suite. Finally, Don cut each sheet of paper into three panels.
Sunday morning, Mom and I got to work. I cut strips of the darker metallic paper and used this awesome little craft punch I found at Michael’s (part of the Martha Stewart line) to make sand dollars and starfish. Mom glued the sand dollars to the top of the card and the starfish in alternating locations on the cards. We finished in about two hours and they look great.
I must have inherited the crafting gene from my Mom. Check out her awesome work:
It was fun to work with her on this project. Too bad she’s three hours away; there are at least three more big DIY projects to complete in 30 days. Yikes!
One more shot from the project (in this one you can see how the starfish are in different places on each card):
