Cards Galore!

So there have been a few events in my life in the past couple of months that all warranted a hand-made greeting card.  I thought you might like to see what I’ve been up too…


This was a birthday card for my brother-in-law.  I have a hard time with making male cards but I love how this turned out.  I printed out the ship and frame separately from Photoshop so I could have the 3D effect.  The tag I also designed in Photoshop but was inspired from Stamping Up.  You can see more of my “male” cards here.


This was a super easy Thank You card for a family friend.  I love purple and orange together.  Check out some other Thank You Cards.


I made this card for a baby shower.  I really enjoy hand coloring images, especially ones with kids or Precious Moments characters.  Download some free Precious Moments Boy images here.


Another Precious Moments card.  This one I had made for a special anniversary.  I love layering papers, it helps give a card more depth.

 
This card is one of my new favorites.  I had a different version of this card that I had made last year for a friends wedding but my new 2-1 border punch from EK Success really makes this version pop!  The image is a royalty free stock photo that I found and the tag is made by me through Photoshop.  You can’t tell in the photo but both are raised up to be 3D.


More Precious Moments…I think I have a slight obsession!  I made this card using a template from Wendy Bird Designs.  It was great fun to cut up the different papers and arrange them on the different sections of card. 


This was my card to my mother for Mother’s Day this year.  The card is stamped with Stampin’ Up’s “Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel Stamp”.  Love that stamp.  It provides such a great, aged look.  I cut the chick out and made her 3D with pop dot stickers;  embossed the “Oh My God” with my Versarmark Marker and Bronze embossing powder.  If you don’t own a Versamark Marker then get one—it has become my favorite embossing tool!  The half flower on the right side of the card is made like my Accordion Flowers post. 


And my last card for this post.  This was the card from my little guy to his Mamaie (that’s Grandma in Romanian).  Isn’t he sooo talented at just 2 & 1/2?!  LOL.  The image of the little fellow I printed out in Photoshop along with the surrounding frame.  The pretty punch is a 2-1 border and chain punch from eksuccess.  Watch for my next post to see how I used that punch for party décor…

So glad you stopped by to see what I’ve been up too…
Hope we can visit again soon and if you have any questions about how I made any of my cards leave me a comment and I’ll be sure to get back to you.

Happy Cardmaking!

Thank You!

 Something that seems to have been lost in life is the “Thank You” Card.  We’ve become such an “on demand” society where we just expect the world on a platter that we've forgotten to appreciate the people in our lives.  Sure we might say a verbal “thanks” now and then or send a text message “thanx”, and it is nice that we’re not totally neglectful of others;  but, how much nicer is it to give a “Thank You” card, to show that you've put a little bit extra of yourself into it because that person or their gesture were worth it.  Anyways, I’ll get off my soap box now and show you a couple cards.


This one was so quick to make.  First I just border punched the one edge and inked it white to stand out against the back side of the card.  Then I lightly inked the other edges of the card too;  gives it a more aged look and sort of frames the card.  Then I cut a paper strip and a ribbon strip and glued them to the card.  I stamped the “Thank You” Sentiment and embossed it in clear and then inked the piece of cardstock around the edges.  I then glued my accordion flower on top (click here to see the tutorial for it).  Voila!  A joyous note of appreciation.


This card was also pretty quick to make.  It’s just layers of patterned cardstock, a silky ribbon, a stamped and embossed sentiment, paper flowers.  The image is printed out in black and white and then softly shaded in by me.  I then cut out a blue cardstock frame which I stamped and embossed as well.  I made this card as a thank you to a dinner invitation.
I used mini clothes hangers to attach this card to the front of a basket that I had filled with homemade muffins.  A cute idea for a hostess gift. 
 
I hope you’ve been inspired to appreciate the loved ones in your life!
Happy Scrapping!

My First Custom Order

So I’ve been MIA for awhile.  Life just gets the better of you sometimes.  Now that things are finally getting into more of a routine around here I can start getting back to my blog and posting some of my projects.  For my first post of this new year I thought I’d share with you something that was quite exciting in my project world this past Holiday Season.  I got my first custom order for Christmas cards! It was quite a bit of work, more than I had anticipated, but I am thoroughly thrilled with the result.  I made 25 cards (5 designs and 5 cards of each) for this order.  I hope you enjoy browsing through!



Thank you for looking!
Happy Scrapping!

Card for Sale!

So it’s official.  I have a shop up and running on Etsy!  Today I put my first card up for sale.  It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving Card, just in time for the holiday in the states.  Check it out in The Preacher's Wife Crafts & Gifts or click on my “Shop” tab at the top of the page.

 

I’ve included the description from my shop:
This card was inspired by fall. It has layered cardstock in textured olive green and burnt orange colors, and a very detailed hand-colored 3D pumpkin drawing. You'll love the attention to detail on the pumpkins with the added subtle sparkle and the stained, mini clothes pins. "Happy Thanks Giving " is embossed on the front in bronze, with a hand-tied, green, ribbon bow added above with a brad. The inside is simply stamped with two leaves and the rest is left blank for your thoughts to your loved ones. The card has a coordinating envelope that has a stamped and hand-colored pumpkin in the bottom corner.

I do hope you’ll stop by my shop to visit and please know that this is the first item of many to come! (ps.  I’m also interested in special orders so if there’s something you have in mind please let me know and I’d be happy to help )

Wedding Time

I love summers, but it seems there’s always something that needs to be done, and always someplace that I need to be, with little to no time left just to relax and enjoy the summer.  And so here I am, on a chilly morning, a nice reminder that my glorious summer is coming to an end, and I’m given a chance to reflect on all that’s happened….and as it turns out this summer has actually been nice and long and we’ve done plenty.  Perhaps it wasn’t as relaxing as I would prefer but it was exciting.  Warm days started in May back in Michigan, and Hot days started in June so we’ve had plenty of sunshine, even got to the beach a few times (as you can tell from my last post);  we moved up to Alberta, Canada and we’ve had fantastic weather almost non-stop since we got here at the beginning of the month.  Our friends actually had a outdoor wedding, (which here in our city is somewhat unheard of, the weather is usually unpredictable) and it was a gorgeous day.  Which brings me to the subject of my post today.  Wedding Cards.


It’s not often that I get to make a wedding card and so I was really excited to get the chance to use some of my ideas. Most of my scrap stuff was still packed at this point so I used my computer and stuff my mom had such as the butterfly punch. I love that little punch, I may swipe it when she’s not looking!   You can’t really tell from the picture but I used a bit of flocking powder on a couple of the background butterflies.  I found the silhouette online at shutterstock.com. I thought it resembled the couple
  
The corners are punched with the scalloped ‘around the page’ punch set from Martha Stewart.  I inked the edges of the inside of the other half of the card to the punch would stand out more.  The little jewels that you see on the butterflies, and as accents of the card are actually silver Stickles.  I love Stickles!  Nothing else I’ve tried is like it.
I hope you enjoyed my card as much as I enjoyed making it!  I’d love to hear comments and see any projects that you’ve done.
Until Next Time, Happy Scrapping!

Penta-Fold Card

So I don’t think that “Penta-Fold” is the proper name of this card, but it sounded good to me so I’m sticking to it.  What do I mean by a Penta-Fold Card?  Let me show you…

So you see this card is folded like an accordion in five.  Each section is it’s own separate vignette completing a larger picture. I’m a huge fan of Precious Moments characters.  They’re so cute!
   
I made this card for my hubby for Father’s Day.  It was supposed to my how my son sees his daddy and how he wants to be just like him.  I know cute right?  So now that Father’s Day is over, my hubby wants to frame it and put it up in his study (which is what I had planned for this card to begin with but it’s nice that he suggested it too).

So Father’s Day is over, but these little images would work for Birthday Cards, Bon Voyage Cards, Sport’s, Recitals, Grad so many options, so instead of sending you to a internet search I’m sharing these images with you.  They are all free coloring pages, that I’ve searched for and you can download them and color them in with fancy markers (like me) or Photoshop them or use Paint.  Whatever, go crazy!  Just click the image and you’ll be taken to Picasa where you can download and save the image to your computer.

Enjoy and I would love to see the projects you’ve made!!