Challenge #32: Going Away Album

This project was done for my college roommate. Although she's not "technically" my family, she might as well be. She's my "sistah from anotha mistah".

Tomorrow is the going away party for my college roommate who is moving out of state. I volunteered to make her a "going away" album. Guests have been encouraged to bring their favorite picture of themselves with Melissa, and they'll also be invited to write a message of good luck to her for the book. There are over 60 people coming, so I had to make a lot of different spaces for writing, and pictures which I don't know the size of yet. That has proven to be a little tricky. I hope that I have enough space.

Even though she's getting this tomorrow, I'm too excited to wait to put pictures up. I hope that she loves it!

You can click on any or all of the pictures for larger images. Feel free to leave a comment if you have time. :)

Card in a potted flower

I wanted to give these flowers to a special loved on in recognition of the anniversary of a loved ones death. Hyacinths are such an indication of spring for me. Simply the smell of them is like God whispering in my ear, "spring is coming. I promise."

Rather than creating a separate card to go with the flowers, I created a card that would actually stick in the plant. I used the Wild Card cart to create the flowers, and used a button with some raffia for an added element. I used adhesive to adhere toothpicks to the back of the card as a way to stick it in the dirt, covering up the toothpicks with an additional sheet of paper.

Happy Healing!

I made these cards for my boss, and my grandmother. They are each recovering from surgery. I liked how the first one turned out, so I made the second as a variation off of the same idea.

I used the wild cards cartridge, as well as tags cartridge. Of course I added buttons, and used a flower stamp to add a little extra something.