UPDATE: Our Baby Shower was just perfect. It was so full of love and amazing people who love us and who we love. It was a beautiful shower, and I couldn't wait to write out the homemade thank yous and send them out!
Our shower is on a Saturday, so Sunday I am dedicating most of my day to making the Thank yous and writing them out, so I could mail them out on Monday. (EDIT: These thank-yous took me about 5 hours to make and write out, but they were so worth it and I loved how they turned out.)
The items I used were:
1 box of plain white invitations (100 count)
fabric (I bought quarters from Joanne Fabrics - I used 10 different patterns)
buttons - (Joanne's and I used 5 different colors)
Our computer printer
hot glue gun and sticks
black sharpie
black thin sharpie
gluestick
scissors
I started off by using our computer and printer to print out THANK YOU on the upper right hand corner of each invitation. I used an invitation layout in Microsoft Word, and just made sure that my paper size matched the sizes on the computer printer setup page. I also used colored font to match what color fabric and buttons I was planning to use on certain thank-yous.
I ended up printing 10 yellows, 20 salmons, 20 pinks, 20 blues and 30 purples. (totaling 100 Thank-yous)
I then took my fabric scissors and cut out a temp-let shape of a baby buggy. You can even Google baby buggy to print out the ideal shape if you wanted to!
I cut out 10 buggy's of each fabric pattern that I purchased.
Once your buggy's are all cut out, now it is time to make the thank yous!
Step 1: use a glue stick to glue on the fabric buggy into the spot on the paper that you want it. I did all of mine close to the bottom left hand corner (as you can see)
Step 2: Use your regular black sharpie to draw a small handle on the buggy
Step 3: Use the same sharpie to draw two black lines coming out of the bottom of the fabric buggy
Step 4: Use a small dot of hot glue to attach the buttons to the bottom of the sharpie lines to look like wheels
Now keep repeating these steps until all of the cards are done!
That was so easy wasn't it!?
Here is a mash-up of one of each pattern and wheel color that I made.
I made a total of 100 thank yous in this style, I will then my thin black sharpie to write out my messages to all of our loving and wonderful family and friends.
This project would work for Thank-yous or even invitations!
You could even use it for baby announcements once the sweet little one is born and you could add a newborn picture to it as well!
There are so many fun ways to use this project, and the colors can be changed and played with as well!
If you make a version of these yourself, please share a picture of them in the comments below, or tag them on Instagram using #CreatingVirginiaAnne
I would love to see your creations!
