invitation to brag monday

The awe inspiring Graphics Fairy has a lovely thing called Brag Monday where we all get to brag about things we've made using something from her incredible bounty of images.  Today I'm bragging about this invitation.


A colleague at work asked me to make it; it's to send to a client who she's having trouble getting a meeting with.  The idea is that a handcrafted, unique invitation might just do the trick. 


I was more than happy to craft at work, so said yes.  I had no idea what to make, so spent some time perusing the Graphics Fairy blog.  The moment I saw the Florist Frame I knew it was perfect.  Feminine, but not so much that the card couldn't be sent to a man. 


For the calligraphy I wrote the words on plain paper and scanned them into my computer.  This allowed me to use my favourite calligraphy pen, even though it creates letters that are far too big for the frame.  More importantly it freed me from the stress of trying to get it perfectly right in the frame! 


After that came a little resizing, a little printing and a little inking.  So far so good, but I knew I needed something for the paper ribbon.  I immediately thought of dictionary paper but, oddly enough, I don't tend to take old dictionary pages with me to work.  Then I googled the phrase dictionary page.  To my delight one of the first images I found was on the Graphics Fairy blog!  It was meant to be.  More printing, tearing and inking followed.  Some gluing followed and there was the card. 


I like how versatile this card can be.  Fine for a man or a woman; good for any occasion; easy to resize if necessary. 


OK, enough bragging, I'm going to go and be inspired by some of the other braggers!