With a Grateful Heart!

The i {heart} papers team was challenged to create a project with a theme of gratitude...so here is what I came up with. My priority was much more function than beauty. I needed a way to keep a running list of who/what I need cards for, so I made a little book to keep track. I thought this gorgeous Wassail snow flurries paper was generic enough to last well beyond the holidays, so I covered some chipboard book covers with it. Then I used some scraps of textured ivory paper to cover chipboard {} and heart shapes (I'm so grateful to be a part of this awesome team!), which I inked with Tim Holtz distress inks. They came out darker and pinker than I really wanted, so I grabbed some acrylic paint and swiped across them with my fingers. I wanted them to look similar to the appearance of the coral/pink tones of the subtle accents of the paper. I chose not to add any other embellishments because of the bulk...I want it to lay flat so I will be able to write in it easily.


The inside pages were printed on my computer. Facing pages have a list for the person's name and the occasion for the card on one side and a calendar on the other.

The whole thing is held together by 1-inch ring binder clips, which I dressed up just a bit with a couple of velvet ribbon scraps from my ribbon jar.

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