Trying to make a creative gift, I decided to make personalized notecards wrapped with a ribbon. I went to buy different colored papers as accent paper and then different colored notecards. I love reading, so I thought about the books I was reading to see if there were any suitable quotes for my cards. In addition to the notecards and the paper, I bought two different stamps to cut the paper evenly (the small stamp is 1" and the larger stamp is about 3.5"):
I used the 1" stamp to cut out different patterns of paper to decorate the notecards:
I printed up the quotes and cut them with the larger stamp on thicker white paper:
On the inside, I usually just had a simple saying to go with the quote to address the particular occasion. For example, I made the following:
Any Purpose Cards:
Front: "Life is the most spectacular show on Earth." (From Water for Elephants)
Inside: "Enjoy the Show"
Friendship:
Front: "I roll onto my side and stare out of the venetian blind at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes, I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky-same as it always was." (From Water for Elephants)
Inside: Some Things, Like Friends, Never Change
Welcome Home:
Front: "Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?" (From Cutting for Stone)
Inside: Welcome Home
Sisters:
Front: "Sisters are for life. She is the only person in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one who person who truly knows me, as I know her." (From Shanghai Girls)
Inside: Love You, Sister
Thank You:
Front: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of tough, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." (From G.K. Chesterton)
Inside: Much Gratitude & Many Thanks
Blank Cards:
Front: "To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. That is something to aspire to." (From Art of Racing in the Rain)
Inside: Blank
If you don't have any books or other quotes you would want to use, there is always http://www.quotegarden.com/ as well, which has great variety.
I used the 1" stamp to cut out different patterns of paper to decorate the notecards:
I printed up the quotes and cut them with the larger stamp on thicker white paper:
On the inside, I usually just had a simple saying to go with the quote to address the particular occasion. For example, I made the following:
Any Purpose Cards:
Front: "Life is the most spectacular show on Earth." (From Water for Elephants)
Inside: "Enjoy the Show"
Friendship:
Front: "I roll onto my side and stare out of the venetian blind at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes, I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky-same as it always was." (From Water for Elephants)
Inside: Some Things, Like Friends, Never Change
Welcome Home:
Front: "Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?" (From Cutting for Stone)
Inside: Welcome Home
Sisters:
Front: "Sisters are for life. She is the only person in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one who person who truly knows me, as I know her." (From Shanghai Girls)
Inside: Love You, Sister
Thank You:
Front: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of tough, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." (From G.K. Chesterton)
Inside: Much Gratitude & Many Thanks
Blank Cards:
Front: "To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. That is something to aspire to." (From Art of Racing in the Rain)
Inside: Blank
If you don't have any books or other quotes you would want to use, there is always http://www.quotegarden.com/ as well, which has great variety.
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