It's been a couple months since my wedding now and I am ALMOST done with Thank You cards and cleaning up. One thing that came up as I was organizing and getting life back to normal was what to do with the mass amount of beautiful and thoughtful cards we received. It seemed a shame to just throw them away or put them in a box which I would probably never look in again. So, I had and then implemented two ideas that I think turned out rather well…

1. Wall art:

A lot of the cards are so pretty and colorful, so I thought they'd make awesome decorations. I bought these clips on Amazon, then printed pictures of flowers from the wedding and cut out just the flower part to superglue on the front of the clips. Then I stuck the clips to the wall and slid the cards in.

I figure as other holidays come up and we receive more cards I can switch the old cards out for new ones. So it's a fun, seasonal display.

2. Wedding scrapbook:

I am a big scrapbooker, so I always knew I'd be making my own scrapbook/album for the wedding. I normally just use spiral sketchbooks and don't bother with anything on the cover, but I wanted to do something more special for the wedding. I spent a lot of time shopping around for a blank notebook with a nice cover that felt right, but couldn't find anything. So, eventually, I just bought a new sketchbook and decided to use a collage of the wedding cards as the cover and put my sentiments on the inside.

I went through all the cards cutting out my favorite images and messages until I had a pile of each. Then I used the images for the front and back covers (with a picture from the wedding of course) and put the messages on the inside. I think it turned out really well and now I'll get to keep and remember the cards forever.

