Hello Cards

Just some basic note cards to say hello.

This one is the first one I made after I got the circle stamp from Kathy M at scrapbookaddict.com (it's from 7 gypsies.) I stamped the circles all over the cardstock, added "Hello there" from the "Tag Tidbits" set from The Angel Company. I then stamped the circle on a different piece of paper, cut it out with my circle punch, and added "Hello" from one of the Studio G $1 stamp sets from Michaels. I mounted this punched out circle to the card with 3d foam tape so it gave the card some dimension.

This card came from a card kit I bought from Creating Keepsakes. It wasn't a complete set so I got it for pretty inexpensive. It included all the parts to the card and I assembled them myself.

I embossed the yellow card stock with the "spots and dots" cuttlebug embossing folder. I then mounted the blue ribbon on the top of that. This ribbon is cool because it goes from a light grayish blue to a dark navy blue and back again. I stamped the circle and "hello" on yellow cardstock, punched it out and mounted it on top of the ribbon.

This set is called "Window Box" and is from Stampendous. My husband and I went to Archiver's scrapbook store when we were in a town with it for a friend's party (we went early so I could go to Archiver's : ). We were wandering around and he found this set and thought I'd like it so pointed it out to me. I truly have a great husband. Anyway, I had owned it for a few weeks and hadn't thought of anything to do with it, so I looked on splitcoaststampers.com to see if there were any ideas in their gallery using it that I liked. I found some cards by "cropmom66" that I liked with the set, so I took her basic idea and changed it a little to fit the products I have on hand. I stamped the sentiment and the dragonfly stamp on white cardstock, colored it with my watercolor pencils and blended them. I then cut out the stamped images, mounted them on blue cardstock. I mounted red organdy ribbon (from Stampin' Up) on a strip of red cardstock and then assembled the whole thing. I added three blue mini brads to finish it off. Same basic design as Cropmom66's (her idea), but my own little twist on it.