Camino Crafts - Bon Voyage cards

Rather than make these from scratch I decided to just alter a one card and make the other, this saved me time and a bit of effort so was good on all counts!

   

I liked this one because of the stars (Compostela means 'field of stars') and there was a fairly big space at the bottom for me to decorate.

Next I checked the distance of Santiago from Porto - 239.6km according to my guidebook. Then I used Paint to draw a distance sign (I chose paint as you can save images as JPEG files making them easier to post here).

Two oblongs, the inner one with a thicker line, then the words for distance and the two metal poles for it to stand on (I based it on the sign that cheers you up as you leave Roncenvalles in the morning).

Then it was simply printing this out, sticking it onto card to give it some rigidity and then sticking it onto the card.

If you want to make a similar card here's a blank version of the sign for you to use:

The second card I made from scratch but is also fairly simple to do.

     It needed: card, brown paper, glue, a pencil, ruler and pens in blue, yellow and black.

I used black card simply because I had it left from another project - I cut a piece 27X19cm and then folded this in half to make a card 13.5X19cm

Then I cut my brown paper (the cheap stuff that's meant to be for wrapping parcels to go in the post) to be 13.5X19cm

Then I drew on my design lightly in pencil (the 'O' of the Bon is a backpack, I think that you can see the rest okay)

Then I went over this letters alternating between navy blue and yellow but I did this very roughly and used several lines for each letter (although the first line each time was directly over the pencil mark so that it can't be seen)

Then I went over the backpack in black pen and drew on a scallop shell as well to make it more Camino-y. All that was left was to stick the paper onto the card and find an envelope that it would fit!