Card Mobiles

The traditional first year wedding anniversary gift is paper. So, on my first wedding anniversary I went looking for all of the cards we had been given for our wedding that I had put in a box somewhere. I decided to make a paper mobile to give to my husband as a gift for our anniversary. I did google image searches of paper mobiles until I had come up with the perfect solution, taking ideas from here and there. I cut almost all of the cards into cloud like shapes. The cards that were full of writing, I left alone. I tried to cut the cards in a way that kept all the important and meaningful tidbits in tact. Little notes and x's and o's, drawings and the beautiful images on the front of the cards. The result was easy to rest flat in a box as a gift and was lifted up into a beautiful, hanging, turning piece of art to hang in our room, to see and to enjoy all the time.

There are 4 hanging columns of cut-out shapes. They hang from a metal hoop. The cut shapes are held in place by knots in the string.
When my son Desmond was born, again I looked for a way to make a mobile to display all of the sweet cards he had been given. I found some inspiring images again on line. And came up with a mobile constructed from bits of his cards, straw cut into bead-like separators, string, wooden embroidery hoops and tissue paper flowers. It makes me think of candy for some reason. The sweetest solution!

More recently, I made a smaller version for my nephew for his first birthday....