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Engagement Announcements

Astound your family and friends with a home made engagement announcement. Instead of buying an expensive engagement or wedding announcement create your own. Your friends and family will be asking you were you bought your invitation.

Materials: Wedding or engagement embellishments, two different colors of cardstock (choose your wedding colors), glue stick or crafters glue, cutting board, ribbon (optional), and computer.

Instructions:

Step One: Once you’ve decided what two colors or cardstock you’d like (one color will be the invitation color that you will print your announcement on and the other color is an accent color) cut the cardstock that you will be printing on so that it measures 7 inches by 5 inches. If you’d like it smaller for mailing purposes that you can shrink the size down to 4 inches by six inches.

Step Two: Print your announcement on your 7×5 cardstock (Visit websites with invitations and announcements to get an idea of how to word your invitation). The sample announcement below reads:

Katie Smith and David Johnson
have become engaged!
Let’s toast to the happy couple over
dinner and drinks.
Saturday, the sixteenth of May
at six o’clock at
Kay’s Steak House.

Regrets Only (555) 555-9725

Step Three: Cut your accent colored cardstock so that it is slightly larger than your invitation. For instance, if your announcement is 7×5 cut the accent piece of cardstock so that it measures 7 1/2 or 8 inches by 5 1/2 or 6 inches (depending on how much of the accent color you want to be shown). Please see sample below for ideas and instructions.

Step Four: Add your embellishments to the announcement.

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Coupon Book

Instead of buying mom or dad a gift, make them a coupon book full of things you can do together or provide your services. Mom and dad will love your thoughtfulness and appreciate the home made gift!

Materials: Colored cardstock, glue stick or craft stick, scissors or paper cutter, embellishments, letter stickers and computer.

Instructions:

Step One: Depending on how many coupons you would like, cut your cardstock so that it measures 7 inches by 3 inches. The sample below has seven pieces of cardstock with the measurement 7×3. If you’d like to add more coupons to your book then you will need more than seven. This will be the pages of your coupon book.

Step Two: On the first piece of cardstock (the coverpage) spell out “coupons” or “coupon” book with your letter stickers.

Step Three: Type up different coupons, such as: One free dessert of your choice, one free home cooked meal, one free car wash, or one free night of movies (popcorn included).
Note: I would print the coupons out on cardstock for durability.

Step Four: Once you’ve printed your coupons, cut them out and adhere them onto black cardstock. See pictures for examples.

Step Five: Glue each coupon to one 7×3 page of your coupon book. Glue the coupon to the left of the page so that you have room for your embellishment. For instance, if you printed: One free movie night (popcorn included). Glue this coupon to the left side of the page and then add your embellishments to the right of the page. Note: See sample pictures if needed.

Step Six: Repeat step five until you have all pages of coupon book completed.

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