52 Reasons I Love You

Decided to make a handmade gift for someone special, so googled online for inspiration and found the "52 Reasons I Love You" deck of cards.

It's a rather sweet idea/gift, for your girlfriend/boyfriend/mummy/daddy/friends and whoever you love! :D

Of course, coming up with 52 reasons took quite some time and some braincells. 52 different and unique reasons, specifically tailored to the person. Certainly, you can find tons of reasons online and just do a copy-and-paste, but that would defeat the original purpose right? Best to think of some reasons yourself. :p

So, if you did a google search, there are actually a lot of tutorials online. Most of them includes punching holes at the side and attaching book rings at the side.

Anyway, the first step would be to do or find a template and print it out. You can do it via Powerpoint and the rectangles are 6cm by 4cm. Well, I searched online for super long to find a nice template, which is here: http://www.slideshare.net/carrieannwoody/52-reasons-i-love-you-blank. Hehe, I changed the fonts only and insert pictures into every rectangle. I prefer to have pictures + words hahaha. Nicer mah!

Printouts of the 52 reasons

I blurred the above picture on purpose :p I'm too shy to showcase the reasons and I believed that the reasons should only be seen by the eyes of the one and only :D

 Yeah, the easier task was the printing. T.T Took some time to think and type in the reasons, add in relevant pictures, adjust the placing of words/pictures to make it nice nice. But well, think of how happy the person would feel receiving it made it worthwhile. :D

Finally cut out all of them. Looked like a mini deck of cards eh? And the cutting part wasn't easy as I thought due to the gap in between each rectangle was actually quite narrow! So spent some time on the cutting haha. Perhaps, to make it easier, should just shift the positions of the rectangles so that there are no gaps in between? Maybe it would be easier to cut.

Now, would be to stick it onto the deck of cards!



I stuck it onto a deck of normal Bicycle deck that I happened to have. :)
Can be any poker card deck too!

Next, I decided to use those trading card holders to slot the cards in. Haha, feeling abit lazy to punch holes for each of them. Coincidentally, managed to find this in Diaso IMM for just $2! 

Can protect from the cards from wear and tear also! :p

Yay, done with the 52 Reasons I Love You cards! ^_^

 :)