Winter cards

I've been very, very lax in doing anything paper craft related, let alone posting about it. Yesterday I made a bunch of cards, using embellishments I got from the Die Cuts With a View Christmas and Winter Rhinestock Stack (a picture) and the Die Cuts with a View box of Embossed cards that I got a few years ago. I also added some ribbon, since most of the embellishments are tags. I also broke out my shaped paper clips. The paper stack came with tags and embellishments, two pages of the same ones. I think the cards turned out alright. Not perfect, but pretty good.

This one has hearts embossed on the background, since the text says "Some bunny loves you." I used my watercolor pencils to color the background and then used water to make it watercolor like. There were two of each embellishment but I used the other one of this one on a pocket page with the 2012 Christmas cards we received.

This one has a tag that says "Stay Cool" on it, since you can't really read it with the glare. The embossed card has a lot of friendship sayings on it. I used my metallic Prismacolor pencils on this card. The ribbon on the card I've had a long time, so not positive where I got it from, though I think I got it from JoAnn's craft store.

This tag says "Thinking of you" and I mounted it on the friendship card. I used my watercolor pencils to color the background again. This cream ribbon with the gold snowflakes came in a ribbon set my husband bought me for Christmas from Target. We were looking at their Christmas wrapping paper and I saw this ribbon and loved it, so he got it for me. It came in a three pack with 2 other ribbons. We also got another 3 pack for me. The other one of these embellishments went on the 2012 Christmas cards pocket page in my scrapbook.

These ones have a tag with a penguin that says "Celebrate good things." The ribbon on the card I've had a long time, so not positive where I got it from, though I think I got it from JoAnn's craft store. I used the watercolor pencils on this one also. There is another card that's pretty much the same, but the picture of the two of them did not turn out well. The embossed background is squares.

These tags say "Happy winter" with penguins. The background is a bunch of stripes, which I colored with my Prismacolor metallic pencils. I don't know where I got the blue snowflake ribbon from but the cream is the ribbon from Target.

These polar bears are so cute. The tags say "Thank you beary much" and I mounted them on a background with dots on it. I used the blue Prismacolor metallic colored pencil to color it. I had to borrow my son's pencil sharpener for these cards, since I couldn't find any of mine.

I'm not sure if I'll use these cards or if I'll donate them to the Operation Write Home (see their information here). I'm not sure if they take square cards, but we'll see. I sent a bunch of the ones I made previously to them, since I wasn't using them.

Friendship cards

About a week ago, we had some friends over and they were playing the video game "Rockband" with my husband on our Xbox 360. It was late, after midnight, and they had the windows open because they were hot. Apparently the music was a little loud and our neighbor came over really upset about it. My husband felt really bad about it and asked me to make a card so he could apologize (he plans to take it over with a bottle of wine). These are the two cards I made (I figured it's easy to just make the second one, since I was cutting a piece of paper in half for it anyway, and this way I have a card on hand if I need another one). I used the cuttlebug embossing folder (I think it's called swirls). The tag is a sizzlet die cut. I stamped on the tag with blue chalk ink. I used the friends stamp from the Stampin' Up Tagger's Dozen set. Hope you enjoy! I varied the placement of the ribbon to see which one my husband likes best (he hasn't decided yet). I found the printed ribbon at Micheal's and thought it'd work perfectly with this embossing folder that I already had. I picked the cardstock colors based on the color in the ribbon.






Danielle

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.