She's Crafty: Birthday Thank You Notes

Hold on to your hats while I get crafty!

WC and I are going to finish up her thank you notes from her birthday party tonight (which was last month, but hey, we *are* getting them done!). Over the years I've devised a quick and easy way to make thank you card with a personal touch.

First, I pick out a cute group pic from the party and print out enough to send a thank you note to each party-goer.

We start with these blank cards and envelopes.

I love these boxes of multi-colored cards and envelopes that at sold at Target- just $10 for a pack of 200. The pic goes on the front and we use the colored cards from this set to add to the inside of the white card for a pop of color.

The finished product, ready to be filled in on the inside

I give the kids a choice on what color they would like the inside to be, and of course WC picked pink!

So yes, not too complicated or time-consuming, but the kids love seeing the group pic and sending these to their friends.

Shorterest

What's Shorterest? 

It's when an idea you've seen on Pinterest, that looks really neat and easy, turns out to be quite time-consuming. So as you do most things in your life- you figure out how to short-cut it.

Short-cut + Pinterest = Shorterest.

I saw this project a few weeks ago and thought it looked genius- I mean, considering my second child has no baby book and she's 6 (so sorry WC!), there's no way I could actually journal the events of my day... but only one line per day? Hell, even I can do that! And I have a date stamp at work! And a paper cutter too!

This project seemed made for non-crafty slackers like me.

So I gathered up my supplies: a cute box I picked up some time ago in the Dollar Spot at Target, a few packages of 4X6 lined index cards, and my date stamp and stamp pad. Don't go trying to look for this particular box- it's long-gone I'm sure. But I bet you can find something else suitable.

And I quickly figured out that my date stamp wasn't going to work because it has my initials below the date. I tried various covering-up methods, but I got a headache within a few minutes and gave that up. I just decided to hand label the dates.

And then taking into account the size of my box and the fact that I wanted to be able to write more than 4 words per day (I can be wordy given the opportunity), I decide not to cut the cards in half.... but just to cut them to fit. So I just took off half an inch.

So voila! Here is my finished product! I figure I don't need the monthly dividers... after I journal each day, I'm just going to stick that day at the back. Less work for me!

It's Shorteresting!

Have you Shorterested anything?