Personalised Wedding Picture

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.

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I'll be linking up this project at all these lovely link parties, pop over for a look at loads of projects from other blogs