Friends Cards

I used the Stampin' Up "Mini message" set on this one also. I stamped the background with flowers and stamped a "Friends" foam stamp I had (by Plaid" on part of it. I cut out the square, mounted the tag in the center of it with ribbon. The eyelets I used in the holes are flower shaped.

This one I made with die cuts from Creative Memories that I found in my stash while cleaning it out. I had just bought a Simple Impressions Sizzix's embossing folder I found on clearance that said "Friends" so I decided to try it out on this card. I embossed it on white paper and then colored the paper with chalk. I cut the grass with my "grass" decorative scissors and mounted the "friends" on the grass. I colored the butterfly's body brown and used chalk to highlight the embossed parts on the die cuts. I mounted cardstock behind the cut out part of the butterfly to make it a little more vibrant.

Another one from the Creating Keepsakes kit.

Thank you cards

I've made tons of Thank you cards. Maybe I should actually start sending some of them? : )

I made this one for a craft show my mom and I did. I stamped the flowers, cut them out, arranged them in a bunch (mounting some on 3d foam tape), drew the stems, and then stamped the bow. I used an alphabet template I have to write the words "Thanks a bunch".

This one was made for the craft show also. I stamped "Thank you" on some handmade paper I had, then matted that on a different color of the handmade paper. I stamped the background with the star stamp. On the tag, I stamped the "Thank you" part of the "Mini Messages" Stampin' Up stamp set and then stamped the star over that also. I mounted the tag over the card with the ribbon and some brads, using eyelets in the holes so the ribbon didn't tear the holes.

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 3 butterflies 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 and then red cardstock. I mounted blue organdy ribbon (from Stampin' Up) on the bottom along with 4 mini brads and then assembled the whole thing. Same basic design as Cropmom66's (her idea), but my own little twist on it.

Same basic card as above, but with different stamps and assembled a little different.

Same basic card as above, but with different stamps and assembled a little different.

Another card from the Creating Keepsakes kit. The part that says "Your kindness was very much appreciated" goes in the pocket on the card.

Butterfly cards

These 2 cards are basically the same, just one has torn edges on the embossed circle strip and the orientation is different. I embossed the butterfly using a brass stencil. I then embossed the white strip using a plastic circle stencil. I colored the strip with purple chalk and colored the underside of the vellum butterfly with chalk to give it more muted colors. Pretty simple card but I think it's very pretty.

Thinking of You Cards

These cards are ones with the sentiment of "Thinking of You."

Another one from the Creating Keepsakes card kit. It was fun experimenting with different types of cards than what I usually make.

Please see the "Hello Cards" post to see my inspiration for these next three cards. This is a set of stamps called "Window Box" by Stampendous. I colored the sentiments with my watercolor pencils. I really like the vase stamp on this card.

Another one from the Window Box set. The lady bug is really cute. The top 3 mini brads are red and the bottom 3 are blue.

I love this butterfly stamp from the Window Box set.

My Memo cube

We got this memo cube in a gift basket last week. Yesterday I played around with it, just seeing what I could decorate it with. It was fun to try something new.
This is the top sheet of the cube. I started with the top, since if I messed this part up, all I had to do was tear off one sheet of paper.



I stamped the sides of the cube with 3 different butterfly stamps. The smallest one I used purple ink. The other two I stamped in black ink and then colored with my watercolor pencils.