Thank you cards

Haven't much to show lately, but these are a few little thank you cards made for recent orders.  

These ones were made with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, which has more than paid for itself since I bought it.

The last two were packaged for me by a friend - great idea to use a doily - and I just stamped off the heart shape from Hearts a Flutter to finish it off. 

My birthday cards

I celebrated my birthday recently and wanted to show off a few of the cards I got.  I am so fortunate to have friends that send me handmade cards.  Everyone has their own styles and ideas, and it's great to be able to see these.  In no particular order, here they are. 

 The last one is from my hubbie - every year he makes me a card on the computer.  Sweet!

A jump on the bandwagon

The latest trend at the moment seems to be Finnish/woven stars.  I have seen so many lately in various sizes and colours that I just had to have a try too.  

My first attempt ended up in the bin as I joined the two half the wrong way around.  

And this is the second attempt.  The first one I made I used 6 inch strips, but this one I did them 12 inch strips.  The larger size was easier to manipulate, but I much prefer the smaller size and thicker paper would have been better - this one was a little flimsy.  

Like to have a try yourself?  Here's the link.   homemade-gifts-made-easy  Don't forget to turn over the piece once you have all 6 strips in place.  That's where I went wrong on my first one.  Love to hear (or see) how yours turns out.  

A very green birthday

This is a card made for another lover of green - there are a few of them out there that I know.  Made with stamps from my very neglected "Kinda Eclectic" set.  I seem to struggle with this one as, like the name implies, it doesn't really go together for me.  Still, I hope the birthday lady was happy with it. 

The true colour of the green is more like that in the second photo.  

My big sister's birthday

My sister recently celebrated her ?? birthday and as she is a very talented quilter and lover of purple I always try to incorporate those things in my card for her.  She also loves Betty Boop, so when I saw this card by Miechelle I had to try to CASE it for her.  

Even thought I had plenty of time to make this, I ended up running out of time and needed to send it off quickly, so it ended up not a card, but just a sheet of cardstock she could use for .....???? a bookmark.  Not sure what really. 

 

 Fortunately I had previously made this card up for her before Betty showed up, so I sent this one off as well.  Not great, but it did fit the purple colour scheme. 

  

 

An anniversary card

I was asked to make a card for a 30th Anniversary recently and here I what I ended up with.  This was one of the first times I got to use the numbers on my new Memorable Moments set.  I have thought I needed this set for a long time before I actually got around to buying it, and it makes such a difference on this card.  The numbers are just beautiful whether they are just stamped or, even better, embossed in silver or gold.  It's a little tricky lining everything up and getting the spacing right, but after lots of practice stamps I think I got it right. 

The card is a Tri-fold card and cardstock Elegant Eggplant.  I just love that swirly stamp.  

The last of the oldies - for a while at least

Well here's another card for those people who are prepared to put in a little more effort.  Once again you have to pull out the stamp-a-ma-jig to get this one looking OK.  Each time you stamp, you have to line everything up to make sure it all looks even, and most rows involve two goes at stamping too.  BUT if you get it right, it does look good.  I stuffed up towards the bottom, but overall I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.  Probably easier to print it out on a computer though. 

And to finish, a shaker card.  I remembered to put the clear window sheet in this time.  

A few more retired oldies

I love how this card turned out - there's something about the use of vellum to soften an image.  I pull this stamp set out every so often but a stamp-a-ma-jig is essentially to use to make sure everything lines up properly.  The roses have been stamped onto white, overlayed with vellum and then tucked into real red cardstock with two thirds of the front section "torn" away.  I stamped the greeting onto the vellum to keep it in the forefront of the card.  

A little bit fiddly, but well worth the effort.

After I had stamped out the image on this card below it still looked a little "unfinished even with the butterflies, so I grabbed the scoring board and created the border around the edges.  Much better, don't you think?