Wedding Gift Card

My friend Lizzi recently asked if I would do a favour for her. She wanted me to paint on a Starbucks gift card to make it wedding themed, for a friend who's getting married soon.

I wasn't sure if painting it would affect the card and whether it would be accepted, but Lizzi, who has worked for Starbucks for like 6 years, assured it'd be all good.

I still didn't want to paint on it though because I didn't know how well it would hold up to being stuffed in a purse. So I decided to go with a sticker.

I designed this little image of a couple with flowers around them which would cover just the cups on the original card, so you could still see the Starbucks bits. I was going to print it out on a sticker sheet and colour it in with water colour paints or maybe colour pencils. But when I came back to it the next day I decided I didn't like it any more.

So I googled around for inspiration and came up with this burlap/lace design for the card. And since I couldn't decide on an image to put on it, I thought about a phrase. Lizzi and I came up with 'to have and to hold, until your Starbucks gets cold'.

I put the whole thing together on Photoshop and printed it on to a sticker sheet. I cut that out and very carefully stuck it to the front of the card, and then trimmed around the curved corners.

To finish it off  I stuck three little gems at the top for a bit of bling.

What do you think?

Any other personalised wedding gift ideas?

Paper bag stockings

I saw these paper stockings on Rock Scissor Paper and wanted to have a go myself. They used a Christmas Trader Joe's paper bag, but I happened to have one from Starbucks so I used that.

I drew a template and cut out six stockings from the paper bag and then six more from some thick card. I stuck the paper to the card and punched holes all the way around. Then I sewed green and red wool around the edges and strung all the stockings together to make a garland.

I gave it to my friend who works at Starbucks, you know, the one I made this Starbucks cup for. She said she's going to put it up at work.

Starbucks

One of my best friends works at Starbucks and she loves it. So last summer I made her her very own plushie Starbucks cup! This would go great with one of my donut keyrings.

(Photo, why you no move to the centre?)

Using a combination of felt and cotton I managed to sew the logo for the side of the cup.

 The cup is even filled with hot, steaming felt java. A mochalatte or something. My friend would know.