our diy engagement thank-you cards

I thought it finally time I share with you our engagement thank-you cards that I made. Yes - we did get engaged in September, and yes it is now almost May! But we are still getting engagement cards and gifts from random family friends and distant cousins. And so the thank-you card production line rolls on...

If you remember way back when I designed our invites for our simple Sunday lunch engagement party, we went with a kraft paper and black vintage stamping method. I wanted to carry this through with our thank-you cards so I picked up some kraft paper card and envelopes which I folded using my handy Martha Stewart paper tool. 

I stole some of my mum's scrabble letters after discovering that (shock horror!) we don't actually own a game of scrabble even though I swore we did. I wanted to incorporate my engagement ring into the card somehow as every man and his dog keeps asking me about it, so I arranged some letters and my ring to spell out 'Matt Loves Em' (using the ring as the 'o'). I used our hall table which is made out of reclaimed floorboards as the backdrop to give it a more rustic look. Originally I planned on using a hessian or linen fabric but decided it wasn't enough of a contrast with the kraft paper card which would make up the card. 

I played around with the photo I took in photoshop (mainly using some of these vintage polaroid actions) and got them printed onto normal photo paper through Harvey Norman photos online. I then used some fabric floral tape I purchased from here to stick the photo down in a haphazard style, each card seemed to be a little different as to where I placed it. Some finishing touches with my alphabet stamp set to say 'thank-you' and voila! DIY engagement thank-you cards complete.