Just over three months ago, my mom threw me a baby shower and just about two months ago, I had a baby! I wasn't feeling so creative during my pregnancy but as the ninth month approached my creative juices started to flow again. I wanted to express my appreciation and love to all the people that were so supportive and generous throughout my pregnancy and so I thought taking the time to make a handmade thank you card was a nice way to show it. My daughter arrived on October 29th and we named her Olive. Click through the photos to see how I created the "I Love You" or rather "Olive You" cards...

Handmade "Olive You" card.

To transfer the graphic to a linoleum carving block, I traced it entirely with a pencil, placed it face down on block and rubbed the back of graphic with the side of pencil tip.

With a Speedball linoleum cutter, craft knife and scissors, I carved away around graphic.

To insure the stamp was looking good, I periodically tested it as I carved to see if you need to cut away more around the graphic.

I created a template for the olives and traced around it multiple times onto green paper so I could cut out all of them at once.

For the olive pimentos, I used red paper and a half inch hole punch.

With a glue pen, I attached the red circles to the back side of each green olive.

I precut card-stock to fit my envelopes and rounded the corners with a craft punch.

To print, I blotted a green ink pad over the block, while it was flat on my work surface...

...then flipped it over, carefully centering the block on the card-stock, and pressed down on the back with my fingertips.

Carefully lift the block off paper and its printed and ready to be inked for the next card!

Before I attached the olives to the cards with foam dots, I printed a thank you message on the back of the card using my inkjet printer and then hand wrote personal notes also.

The finished card! I made about 75 all together.

With a custom stamper, I stamped the inside of the envelopes with my info to let my friends and family know I handmade each card just for them!

I keep my custom stamper set up so I can use it for everything I make by hand.