DIY Mother's Day Gift: 10 Things I Love about You (from the archives)

Mother's Day is this weekend! A few years ago I shared this DIY "10 Things I Love about You" on my blog and it has been super popular (shared on Huffington Post, through Whole Foods Market, Babble, and many more places!). It's an easy and fun project that "kids" of all ages can do for mama - using a printable and finding bits and pieces of papers to put together. Go here to check out my booklet I made my mama as well as get the free printable :)

a custom journal

I recently created a custom journal for a customer who is planning her wedding. She wanted a large book to put in wedding planning mementos, notes, letters from her mama and future mama-in-law, and other bits of memories of her engagement time. She wanted a 50 page, 6"x8" journal, and for it to have a vintage-ey feel, and with her colors - mustard yellow, rose pink, olive green and pastel colors. I knew this would be a fun book to create :)

I combined vintage papers (cookbooks, dictionaries, books, ledger, etc) with new papers and Bazzill cardstock, some vellum confetti-filled pages, envelopes and overlays. I added embellishments like bunting, ribbon weaving and other die cuts to the pages, along with sewing a bunch of the pages. I added a quote from their wedding invite to the front, along with some punched circles and a heart. I then layered it over mustard-yellow polka dot paper and a vintage foreign text page and added in burlap for texture. Below are all of the page spreads (50 pages!) - so lots, and lots (and lots) of photos ;)

I am so, so happy with how it turned out! :) And now to go make myself one ;)