This card was made for my Mom to give to my niece for her birthday. I made my favorite kind of card, an easel. I used my favorite paper collection. (craft consortium the ink drops line) I used my current favorite flower die made by Simon Hurley sold at Spellbinders. I used what I thought was her favorite colors. I also used one of my most favorite fonts in cricut DS. I love everything about this card.
I had a friend that requested a card for a friend and she wanted it to include sunflowers and a wiener dog. I started out working on the sunflower and wound up cutting multiple layers.This is an old die set I have that I got from Craft Stash. I added some ink blending. This card was an 8.5 x 5.5 top folding easel card. I found the dog in cricut DS and thought he tuned out so cute. I added a clay heart that I colored to match the colors of the card. Of course, I added her name because I enjoy personalizing the cards with names and dates. The happy birthday die is from the Stamps of life A7 card die set. I love the way the fonts are combined in this die and bonus, it is designed to work on larger cards. Please excuse my hands and feet/legs in the photo, I realized I hadn't gotten a picture of the finished front. HA!
My sister-in-law is thoughtful of us. So giving. Constantly sharing things with us things that she makes and has a long history of being more like a grandma to our kids through the years. She's been busy make tote bags for some time and keeps sharing them with me. Her neighbor is expecting and turns out she's having twins. She decided to make a diaper bag for her, and I offered to make a special card that would match. I love how it turned out. I hope her neighbor loves it too!
Ok, pro tip....if you are making a project for someone else, in my case, a card, and the person gives you lots of details, you might want to keep that straight as you create...HA! Simple, right? I'm going to blame my little oopsie on the fact that I usually get multiple distractions while I'm creating.
Yep, let's go with that.
So, the card is for a retiring gentleman, I added all the little details, finished the card only to realize the very next day that I messed up the number of years on his retirement. ACK!
Thankfully, it was a relatively simple fix, but I could not remember the font I used, so I used a different one. What you see in the picture is the wrong number of total years. That is the picture I got before I fixed and already had it packaged. Now says 41 instead of 42.
Thank goodness I caught my mistake!!! Please excuse the dish towel and "life" mess in the background 😉
I have found I can make 5x7 top folding card bases with 11 x 17 inch cardstock. The problem I incurred was I didn't have a trimmer large enough to trim the cardstock down, not without a great deal of hassle anyway. So here I was, with 200 sheets of this enourmous cardstock and no way to cut it. The light bulb went on. I remembered seeing the large trimmer at church on many occasions and thought I could probably use that. I took an hour and a half one morning to trot over to the church and use the trimmer. As I was cutting away, a young girl approached me and asked me what I was doing. I told her I was cutting card bases. She asked why. I told her that I make cards. Her simple response was, "can you make me one?" I said, of course, what's your favorite animal. She said, "a unicorn". I asked her name and she told me Destiny. She walked away, satisfied and so, I came up with an easel card. The background has a lovely rainbow watercolor look and I added as much glitter as I could. I can't wait to give it to her on Sunday.
I think one of the best things about making a handmade card is making it for someone I know. A friend reached out to me for a birthday card, and I used these bright, bold colors. Once again, I reached for Bibi's butterfly collection and made a shaped easel card. This card fits into a 5x7 envelope. I heat embossed the sentiments from several stamp sets. I can't wait for her to receive the card, even though it's not from me, it does contain a lot of thought and love.
I absolutely LOVE this collection from Spellbinders of Bibi's Butterfly collection. It took some time, but I was able to add the entire collection to my stash. I also used a set from Vicki P's birdhouse collection from spellbinders. The flowers are from a spellbinders collection as well, that I already had created in my stash. First let's talk about the card shape....is that not stunning??? I think an easel card is one of my absolute favorite styles to make, actually, I don't think, I know it is and let's just take that up a notch by making it a butterfly and 5 x 7 in size??? Yes, I am here for that. True confession, this was my first time cutting the little birds and OH.MY.WORD. they are absolutely adorable. Now I need to cut them in all the colors...maybe I'll do that tomorrow! I digress, I used an older Anna Griffin die for the Mom die cut and sub sentiments from an old lawn fawn set of stamps called Owl always love you...(I think,,not sure) The papers were cut from a 12 x 12 cardstock pack I got at Michaels I got for 5.00 on clearance, which I also love. Gold foiled, water colored look...so pretty and also included solids.
I know she will love it.
