Shower cards

I made invitations for Margaret's shower using a variety of things to suggest rain  - paper with umbrellas and an embossing folder with clouds.  The thing that might be confusing is the choice of pinwheels.  I love the new sizzlit die that cuts them out and adds tiny little holes for the brad...but you might be wondering why I put them on these cards.  Well, have you ever seen pinwheels as yard decorations?  Right before a summer shower, the wind kicks up a bit and they start to turn like crazy.

And since I follow the paper when I start making cards, no two ever seem to end up looking the same.  I made 25 invitations and each one is a bit different.

Now I am working on the rest of the things for the shower... a thank you gift and thank you cards.  I used a paper textured with fiber in the Sizzix Bigz Pro CUpcake die box to fill them with 3x3 notecards. Unfortunately the fiber is pulling away from the various adhesives I've tried.  I thought that maybe jute ribbon could wrap the box and keep the joints tight but I am not liking the look.  I'll post pictures if I figure it out.

Giving into frustration with the boxes I started messing around with thank you cards.  These use Spellbinder's Wonderful Wings Butterflies, some doilies and a Sizzix thinlit, Butterflies-flower-vine flourish. After I took these photos, I added a string of flat backed pearls on the line between the doily and the patterned paper.