Thanks

A friend asked me to make her a thank you card this week.  She wanted pink to be the main color so I hunted through my papers for pink colors and found a few.  I placed a few pieces on a white card and gasped -- how boring and plain!  Then I pulled out ten different colors of card stock looking for the right match with the pinks and this grey card stock stood out from all the others.

 

The layout is based on the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge this week. 
 

Hearts and Lacey Doily

Hearts and lacey doilies are perfect for Valentine's Day.  The card pictured below was really quick and easy to make.  I think I will use it as a notecard instead of a Valentine Card. 

The doily was purchased at Michael's or A.C. Moore and I cut the hearts out with my Mini Cricut using scraps of designer paper I had in my stash.  

Take care,
Kathy

Another Valentine's Day Card

I saw this card either on Pinterest or when I was roaming the Internet and thought it was pretty cute.  So using my computer and printer, I printed off a few.   Simple and to the point!  The picture might be blurry but I decided not to retake it -- eye exam, blurry eye chart ....    ;'))

 

The actual card is not blurry at all.  

Take care,

Kathy

Valentine's Day Card

Holiday and seasonal cards are so much fun to make.   Not that I don't like making birthday or get well cards, special themes are just plain fun! 

So, here is a lovely feminine Valentine's Day card.  Lots of pink, ribbon and pearls.  Sweet.

 

Materials:

white card stock

white ribbon

white pearls  (white, white and white....)

Martha Stewart border punch

Designer paper:  K&Company BW Madeline

Cricut shapes from Teresa Collins Sampler

Inspiration for this card came from the Sweet Sunday Challenge:

 

Take care,

Kathy

Thank You

Have you sent your thank you notes for the Christmas presents you received?  Do you send thank you cards?  I don't send many and I do like to receive them.  Sometimes I just send an email, but there are occasions when nothing but a card will do.    With that in mind, I made up the thank card pictured below.   Though winter is here, I love sunflowers!

 

I love the simplicity of this card.  After sponging the panel, I stamped the sunflower and sentiment.  Orange and red colors just do not photograph well.  These colors are lighter on the card than they appear here.

Supplies:

plain white card stock 

Inks:  Memento Desert Sand and Potter's Clay, Memories Hunter Green (thanks) and some other lighter green for the flower stem

Stamps:  the sunflower was a clear single stamp and 'thanks' is Paper Smooches

One of my goals this year was to enter one card making challenge or contest a month.  I had no idea there were so many!  Well, I was going to place this card in the CAS-UAL Fridays challenge but I missed the noon deadline.   sigh. 

Take care,

Kathy

Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Yesterday I was setting up my 2013 calendar and when I got to February, I realized I had no Valentine cards yet.  Hope we make a few Valentines in card class the last week of the month.  In the meantime, I thought I would try to be creative and make something using hearts and paper doilies. 

Here are two I made yesterday.  The first card is really simple.   I used my Mini Cricut to cut out the hearts (love that machine - I could just cut things out for hours!).  I taped the hearts to white card stock and a red card,  added a few shining hearts and stamped the sweetheart sentiment.  I like the way the hearts flow.

The second card was almost as easy and quick to make.  I found the heart online (free printable) and cut it out.  Then I taped the heart on a paper lace doily and  added both to a finished card -- the light green stripes printed on the card really go with the stripes in the heart.  I wish the colors were truer in the picture.  The flowers are more orange than red, but I changed the brightness of the picture so the  the doily and heart outline could be seen easier.  The final touches were the paper flowers and little roses on the left (purchased at Michael's).    Pretty and feminine.

The first card has been entered in the Just Us Girls Challenge:
 

Happy New Year Cards, part 3

Stars and Happy New Year just go together so when I found a scrap of designer paper with stars, I thought it would be perfect for new year cards. 

Same layout with different colored card stock.  The same, but different.

What do you think?

Happy New Year, part 2

2013 will be starting off for me with Happy New Year cards and and a contest entry.  One of my goals for the new year is to enter at least one contest a month.

Have you tried quilting?   It is similar to iris folding and a lot of fun.  The first card I made took forever cause I spent quite a bit of time looking for matching paper in my stash and I wasn't really happy with the finished card.  Then I remembered that I had picked up a small set of black and white paper at Michael's a few months ago.   So easy --  just pulled out the matching papers and cut the strips.   Lesson learned -- plan ahead.   ;')

I love this card and think I will make my Valentine and Easter cards using iris folding and quilting techniques.    The 3"x3" quilted square has a black frame on a plain white card.  For a little sparkle, I added red sequins in the center and along the white sentiment tag.  The blacks are not as bright in this picture as they are on my computer.  ???

The inside message was printed on white card stock.

I'll be entering this card in the JUGS 169 Wild Card Challenge:

and  Allsorts Challenge Blog:

Happy New Year!
Kathy

Happy New Year Cards

Well, Christmas is past and 2013 is here!  Though I did get Christmas cards mailed, I did not send happy greetings to everyone on my list.  Just ran out of time.  So I thought I would send Happy New Year cards.

Here are a couple pictures of two I sent out.  

One of my Christmas presents was a Mini Cricut machine.  I had fun cutting out these stars.  The little tiny stars are from a Martha Stewart punch.   I don't have a Happy New Year stamp so I printed the tags with my computer.

The balloon on this card is also computer printed -- found the balloon on a free printable site.

Happy New Year to everyone.