Today I thought I would share the present I made for my lovely friend's wedding. This idea would work for lots of occasions though: new baby gift, special birthday, retirement...

I took an inexpensive frame from a budget shop. (shh - it was Poundstrecher - don't tell anyone) 

I made a word cloud using tagxedo. I love tagxedo and wordle for making word clouds. I tend to use wordle if I want more control over word size and tagxedo if I want shapes (like this heart)

I played around reducing the size of my print in print preferences and printing using a draft quality (to save ink - hence the strips below) until it was the right size. I just put the glass from the frame over to check the size.

For this 75% was just right, so then I printed in best print quality on good quality paper.

I cut the heart out and coloured in a few words with red glitter gel pen, I played around with punched out red hearts too but didn't use them in the end.

The eagle eyed will notice this finished item isn't the same as the picture above, I found a mistake and had to do a reprint.

I stuck a little message label on the back.

Here it is all finished with their card.

Here's a close up of the card. I just drew it on with a black fineliner, inspired by some clip art I found which was lovely but not the right shape.

This was an easy, personalised wedding gift that was quick to make.

Julie

I'll be linking up this project at all these lovely link parties