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.

A thank you card

Not your traditional thank you card, though. Last night we went to a friend's house for a party. On the way there we stopped by Archivers and I picked up a stamp set that had different wine and liquor glasses in it. I showed it to our friend and she thought it was cool and asked me to make her a card with it. So I made this card to say thank you for the cool party.

I used a gel pen that I picked up from Archiver's also that is just glitter that you can add to anything. I put the glitter on the little air bubbles and on the left and top edges of the ice cubes.

I put the ribbon too close to the bottom so it didn't turn out exactly like I planned, but I thought it turned out okay.

Sorry about not posting for two months also. I started working on June 21st and I've been a little overwhelmed with that. Hopefully I'll keep up better from now on.

Danielle

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.

More Dots

A friend had a Stampin' Up workshop a few weeks ago. I got the "Hot to Dot" wheel so decided tonight that maybe I should actually use it. I made these two cards using that wheel.

The green strip of paper with the white circles was part of the packaging on an album kit I bought in April. I though it was pretty cool looking, so I saved it to put on cards. I think it worked well on these ones. The circle with words says "Wishing you the best" and is part of the Stampin' Up rivets set. I stamped the words in white ink, put some Stampin' Up heat and set embossing powder on it, used my heat gun to melt it, put Perfect Pearls white powder on it, then heat embossed it again like the directions said. It stands out much more this way than just stamping it in the white ink did.

The circle on this one says "Thanks so Much." I treated it the same way with the Perfect Pearls as the other one.

Thanks for looking!

Danielle