Working Wednesday- Rescued Invitation Cards

A year ago I bought these beautiful 10 pack of invitation cards from Bubbarye at Etsy..and never got a chance to use them. I gave them to my daughter to use for her sweet 16 this fall..but then my toddler got his hands on them and dropped the whole pack of ten cards into the toilet..and flushed!!

Luckily, I was able to grab only one loose card at the top of the pack quickly before the others were lodged into the toilet..needless to say the remaining cards were ruined..and I certainly wasn't going to dig them out of the toilet bowl to show you. EWW!

A single card was dry, clean & untouched..so I decided to make the best of it. I took off the ribbon and removed the pre-printed center. I truly loved the font style of the greeting phrase so I scanned and copied replicas of the greeting phrase and invite center and printed them on scraps of brown and teal blue card stock I had leftover.

Then , I went to the local flower and gift boutique and asked if they could find and order similar blue and brown polka dot ribbon.. My daughter truly loved the color scheme of these cards and I didn't want to change that. Luck would have it that they found some just a bit wider and in a more matte finish. YAY!;-)


I added these beautiful paper butterflies and more paper bag tan, white, and chocolate brown card stock scraps I had left over from my assorted card set project, put everything together and shortened them down to 3.5 x4.5" in size. What do you think??

Polka Dot Invitation Cards-Set of 10

I believe an honest crafter is the best crafter. Some would have tried to claim a old design as their own..I thought it was only right to give credit where it was due as I love what they did and respected that love that was put into the original project. I didn't want to let a great thing go to waste...just added a little eco-friendly touch of my own.

Now, here is the funny part..my daughter wants 20 of these but in purple, pink and black...sigh.
teenagers LOL!- Well, since I made a whole set of 10, I am adding these to my Bonanzle shop. I plan on making some more sets of different colors..and a unique style of my own of course;-)

Have you salvaged something and revamped or made something new with it?? Do tell!! if you blogged about it please share a link in the comment box so we can see. I love to read about it too;-)

Thanks for visiting.

Be Resourceful,

Ny

Find Motivation- Staying active during downtime

Since my knee still isn't up to par for me to vend my wares downtown... and my jewelry online isn't moving fast enough....this is a perfect time to craft my cards and re-purposed creations.

These are just SOME of the things I worked on during the week.

Simple sweet stamped flower THANK YOU Tags..I just need to add the fabric ribbons I made.
With Easter, Passover, St. Patricks Day etc..coming along..not everyone celebrates the same holidays the same way..if at all. But some folks still want to to send a lovely greeting just because. I choose a green theme for the Spring season.

Speaking if Spring.... these are some of the wonderful Spring Fever cards I made for the season..I will be posting these in my NYblaque.shop later.
This one is my personal fav. A lovely blank "Get Well "Card sent from a little birdie:)

In order for me to even get these pictures up with my 2yr old literally underfoot, I had to give him his spotlight for today.
Oh sure, he's smiling now...that's his "I'm going to make sure you don't get any work done so I get ALL the attention face:-P LOL...my baby is something else!


How is your Thursday coming along?

Ny

New Listing Handmade cards at Nyblaque's-Update

I added a new Cards and Notes Section to my Etsy Shop. I am having so much fun making these and have been wanting to post them for a long time. Right now I have cards that can be given for Valentine's Day or any sentimental occasion.

Update- These cards were sold out tonight!!..awesome:) I look forward to making more very soon.!

Thanks for visiting

Ny

Simple Sunday

Snow- Something about the snow makes pictures look so surreal even jewelry photos:)

Sewing- I tore apart my old jeans and finished sewing the pockets closed to make jean mini-purses out of them--up cycling is so fun..I'll have some more pics tomorrow showing what I did with them. These will be sold in my Artfire shop
Sentimental - I just listed these two cards in my Etsy shop. These can be given to a loved one ANYTIME and great for family and close friends.
Although the cards are tagged for the holiday, not everyone celebrates Valentines Day..so I wanted to offer cards that are good to express love any day, by adding "non-traditional and "sentimental" tags as well.

How was your Sunday?

Be Well,

Ny