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!

Journal For Sale

I’ve got a new item in my Etsy shop, this pretty journal! 
This journal is the perfect place to write down all that you dream about, hope for, and believe in.

Read more about it by going to my shop here  or by  clicking my “shop” tab at the top of my page. 
And As Always,
Happy Crafting!

To Do, To Do!

     So if you’re at all like me you have a 100 things to do, about 5 min to do them in (okay, so technically it’s more like 15-16 hours but it feels like 5 min), and 1000 distractions to keep you from actually finishing any one task.  Enter the “To Do” list.  Yes I know this is not a new idea, I’m sure the ancient Egyptians had the hieroglyphic “To Do” carved into their walls, which is where we should have kept our lists too.  Not carved of course, something more “semi-permanent”, such as a separate board on our walls;  at least that way we’d have less random pieces of paper around, no accidentally thrown out phone numbers, and we could even keep the receipt for that dress we’ll never fit into pinned up there too!   

     Seems we’ve caught up to the thinking of those ancient Egyptians because now we have the ever so popular message boards everywhere.  Usually comprising of a white board or chalk board and either cork or pins or ribbon to help hold loose items all in your line of sight.  Now you could go buy one, and spend $10 and up, but where’s the fun in that?  Let’s make one.  

    Now you could turn this idea into something much bigger and fancier and make it all your own.  I’m just here to get the ball rolling, and I do hope you’ll roll on and on…

Just a note…you can find very inexpensive contact paper at the dollar store.  Sometimes they even have white board paper rolls too!

You can click on the picture above to see it bigger.

I hope you enjoyed!
Happy Crafting!

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!