Thanksgiving Preparations

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! My weekend was kind of bitter sweet because I got to spend the entire weekend with my boyfriend but the night before I was heading over to his house I got a back spasm and I could barely even move—so while I did get to spend lots of quality time with him I mostly unable to even move, LOL—so embarrassing. Moving on, these days are getting so busy and today I wanted to share what’s going on in my house—as far as invitations and decorations go. I also got a few questions as to how I was able to create my Thanksgiving invitations and I wanted to share a quick tip as to how I was able to get all the different fonts sized exactly the way I needed them to.

So, I used my trusty Kraft card stock sheets for the base of the card. I used a standard 8 ½” x 11” sheet and basically just cut it in half length wise at 4 ¼” then cut those two sheets down length wise again at 5 ½” . This gives you four perfectly sized card stock bases at 4 ¼” 5 ½”. Next I used this really cute lace pattern paper from Michaels—it’s my fav! I think the last time I went I bought all of this paper the store had because it was on sale, hehe. Sorry to anyone who wanted some from the store in Hacienda Heights, LOL. So what I did with the lace paper, is cut a few pieces at 4” x 5 ¼”. Doing this leaves a quarter inch boarder. Then I set those aside and went to my computer to create the invitation information.

 I mentioned in another blog post that the theme of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner is ‘lace’ and that the other colors I wanted to incorporate were going to be light greens and light oranges—so I jumped onto Etsy to buy some paper straws. I know that I’m using these for drinks, but I want to use them for other things as well—so we’ll send what I end up doing with them.

 I also purchased some glassine treat bags; and, again I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these—but it’s always nice to have them on hand, hehe.

 ...I thought about using the glassine bags as envelopes. What do you think? They look super cute right? Next I want to quickly share the tool I used to adjust all the font sizes: 

I always like using different fonts when making some quick and easy invitations, and at times I get emails asking how I go about getting the fonts perfectly sized, and I basically just use the lasso tool. I select it, right click on the section I want to adjust, and drag it either up, down, left, or right. Once I'm satisfied with how it all looks I just copy paste that entire image onto a 8.5" x 11" new sheet of paper and print that out (so I get 4 invitations per sheet). Well, I hope this helped, and I'm so looking forward to sharing everything else we're doing for Thanksgiving this year! I think this will be my first time sharing Thanksgiving preparations and it's so much fun sharing these ideas with you all! 

Shopping--Fashion + Crafts

I know I usually only have a ‘Card of the week’ post on Wednesdays but today I’m just so excited about some new things I bought over the weekend and I really wanted to show them to you. I’ll also still post my ‘Card of the week’ post later on in the day—I still need to create my weekly card in order to keep my sanity, hehe. I usually don’t go shopping for new shoes, clothes, and other fashion accessories that often because, to be honest, I always spend my money on new crafting tools. I’m addicted to stamps, paper, and other nerdy things. So, I bought these super, super cute black and white chevron flats from Forever21—I also picked up a couple new pairs of earrings. Aren’t they so cute? 

Then when I was at the craft store I found this sticker maker and I couldn't leave the store without it. I've seen this mini machine in a couple of crafting videos and I've always wanted to give it a try. It’s so easy, all you do is take the paper shape you’d like to convert into a sticker, insert it through the top, pull the sticker tab, and you've got yourself a sticker! You can leave it on the plastic or remove it and use it right away. I’m so in love with this that I’m thinking of purchasing the bigger one (I wanted the smaller one first to check out the quality).  The first stickers I made where these faux lace envelope seals for the Thanksgiving invitations I made for our family dinner this year. My theme for Thanksgiving is going to be browns, olive greens, and white lace! I’m so excited. 

Next is this awesome Hello Kitty washi tape. As you know I love washi tape and when I found this at Michaels I had to stop myself from buying all of them—I had to contain myself—because they had four different types! So I just bought the cutest one. I can’t wait to use this. 

I also found the new line of Christmas stamps by Martha Stewart, and even though I don’t need more stamps I bought them anyway. Bad me, but they’re an investment right? Well, that’s the excuse I use when convincing myself to buy them. I do love buying her stamps though because they are kind of one of a kind. The stamps and craft punches she comes out with only come out once, and never come out again. So, I always try to get her new stamps. I hate when I’m too late and I find myself buying them on Ebay for 3 times more than I could have gotten them in the first place, hehe. 

Oh! Next is this awesome black ink. When I had craft day at my friend Yang’s house she introduced me to this dye ink pad (which is perfect for use with acrylic stamps) and I absolutely love it and recommend it. If you remember about a month or two ago I spoke about how I didn't like acrylic stamps because of the poor quality image I’d get when stamping…well I found out it’s because I was use the wrong type of ink. So after finding that out I rushed over to ebay and bought one for myself. It was funny because as soon as I got it in the mail, I ripped the package open and started using all my acrylic stamps that I hid away because I thought I’d never get a good image out of them, haha, and when I saw how great this ink was working I was so thrilled. It’s so embarrassing how excited I get over this stuff. I’m such a craft dweeb.