My 10 year old son has a friend with a birthday in February. Ezekiel asked me to make a Marvel themed birthday card. My mind immediately went to color theme. I googled Marvel colors and then went from the there. The super man die cut is from cricut DS and the stamp set is something I had in my stash. I really liked how the card turned out and I especially love personalizing cards.
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'm not sure if anyone reads here, but if you do, I got behind on posts due to the face that my grandmother had spent ten days in the hospital until her death. One of my kids had a car wreck in the midst of that as well, so lots of trips a good hour + away from my home. I'm sharing this card as it was one I made for her many years ago. She loved flowers and since I couldn't buy her real ones, I made her a card of potted flowers in one of her favorite colors. Life will be different. I will miss her terribly, but was so fortunate to have her so many years.
This is a customer order and I just love how it came out. Even better??? I used some printed cardstock from my stash and I'm so happy with how it came out. I recently acquired these dies on clearance, they are from pinkfresh studios. I love the detail in the edges. I had an embossing folder that mimicked the patterned paper. I love everything about this card. I hope the client does too. I highly enjoy customization, whether it be a name, event, or favorite of the recipient.
I used one of my favorite fonts in cricut DS to create the name and used an SNTB (my preferred alcohol marker, spectrum noir triblend) to give an ombre look to it. This card gives me Tina Smith vibes over on Cards and Coffee Time on youtube. She is fabulous and an inspiration to me. Everything she makes is lovely.
The flowers are made from a spellbinders die from the cinch and go collection. I love it when a plan comes together.
One of my very long-time friend's 2nd daughter graduated from high school. Although I haven't gotten to know her as an older child, I knew much of her a small child. I have had the privilege of watching her grow through photos on facebook and celebrate her accomplishments in athletics. Her parents are dear to me, and I miss the time we used to get to spend together. I'm thankful social media allows me to keep up a little on their lives. She is off to college in the fall and I have no doubts she's do amazing!
I was asked by a friend for an anniversary card for her son and DIL. I also know the happy couple and really wanted to infuse their personalities into the card.
I enjoy a fun fold card. I love fun folds and large cards. This is a full 8.5 x 11 card side stepper card. Meaning I used a full sheet of cardstock to create the card base.
I used a new to me moon stencil and four colors of ink to create the moon. I cut the sitting couple with my cricut, twice, because I made the first one too big. I cut the grass (not sure if it can be seen on the second step) from DS as well.
The fencing is a die I have and I cut 5 of those to create the fence line. I ink blended the night sky background and splattered with shimmer pen for stars. The pick up truck is the truckin' through the seasons die and add ons from Spellbinders.
The heart shaped wood slice is a Tim Holtz die set that includes a round slice and the letters as well. I got it on clearance at Hobby Lobby last year and this is my first time using it. I LOVE how it turned out.
This card tried to take me down. I had to make the base twice. Cut the couple 6 times. Smeared white paint on the couple. Cut one of the fence posts with a pair of scissors accidentally. And, I wrinkle the top of the truck so badly I had to cut and piece in another one. This card took me roughly three hours and it was worth every minute. I hope they love it!!!
This is one of my favorite styles of card to make. I love a shaped or fun fold card and I love building a cute little scene. This card was an order from a friend for her first grandchild's baby shower. I just had to wing it with size for the "chest of drawers" and I used brads to create the knobs. I used cricut DS to creat the crib, rug, clothes and stacking toy. I used a puffy plush sticker for the teddy bear. I strung letter beads together to create the baby's name at the bottom. I've made one other card similar to this in the past and I love how cute it is. I always thing to myself I should just make up several of them for boy, girl, and gender neutral to have on hand and I can add the details later. The buttons on the dress are acutal teeny tiny buttons I've had for YEARS in my stash, aren't they the cutest??
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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!
Graduation season! I had so much fun creating this card for my friend's daughter. I used Cricut DS to cut the cap, and the diploma and the letters of her name. I was able to curate the colors to match that of her high school and found the perfect background cardstock in my stash to finish it off. I used gems from my stash for embellishments and the stamped Congratulations is from a Stamp Simply stamp set. I used a number stamp set in my stash from the Stamps of life to add the year to the diploma. This is a 4x9 slimline card. There is spectrum noir glitter pen on the tassle and the bow on the diploma. I really hope she liked the card.
I have always loved the layering dies that are out in the market...but I've never been able to afford them. When Spellbinders started making the kaleidoscope dies, and they had a sale I jumped in. I really love the look of them. I don't have them all, but I do have a few and I think they are a good goto for masculine cards. For this card, I decided to make a design b cyutting the layered dies diagonally and laying them out in a pattern. I really like how it turned out and hope the recipient enjoys it as well.
I really enjoy making these "showstopper" cards. They have such a presence and give me lots of places to add details. A friend from church asked me to make a 50th anniversary card for her in-laws and I rose to the task! My papers are from a hobby lobby paper pad. I cut the letters and numbers from design space and colored them with my triblends to match the cardstock. I covered them in shimmer pen, but that can't really be seen in the photos. I added some gems from stash. The sentiment is from an old altenew set and one of the two happy anniversary stamps I have. I love how it turned out. The back is equally beautiful with an added scripture and ephemera.
I wanted to make a quick card for one of the office gals at my chiropractor. This was my second ever infinity shaker card. I love how it turned out. I dry embossed the letters of her name with the Spellbinders birthday candle embossing folder and covered each letter with a spectrum noir glitter brush pen. The inside sentiment says Happy a teeny weeny bit late Birthday. It is a 4x8 slimline card. I used DS to cut the letters of her name. The background paper is something old from my stash.
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 😉
When I started cardmaking, I didn't do any celebratory cards. Mostly, I made thank you, encouragement, or sympathy cards. In this season of life, I'm currently making tons of birthday cards and a lot of masculine cards. I don't know why, but I generally default to rainbow cards for guys, the struggle is real on these masculine cards. I also enjoy making shakers so this card has it all, rainbow, birthday, shaker. I stamped the background with the party animal stamp set from Scrapbook.com. My seed beads were gifted to me by my oldest daughter and my bonus daughter. After I created the background, I loaded it into my cricut and cut the name out. Ta-da...assembled and ready to go!
I love to add personal touches to a card. I think it just makes it a little more special. I had the opportunity to make a card for someone I also happen to know. I took some time studying photos of her pets and incorporated them into her card. I love how it turned out. So fun. She really enjoyed the card and that makes me so happy!!
You know I love my butterfly dies. I had a request for a beach themed birthday card. I went straight to my butterfly dies and decided to build a scene. There are so many things I did to make the scene come to life. I inked the name in the sand to give it some attention. I used a snow pen to create the surf on the beach. (is that the right word?) I heat embossed happy birthday in the water to give it a "wet" appearance. I was really pleased with the outcome. I like a good scene and to top it off I got to use my butterflies too!
Let's be honest here, I struggle with tedious things. Things like assembling and gluing tiny pieces. Probably one of the reasons I prefer a larger card base. Do I love the finished product when I do attempt these tedious things? Why yes, yes I do. I had a friend ask me to make a birthday card with daffodils for her. So, being limited on the dies and stamps that I own, I always default to my Cricut Design Space. I found a daffodil and of course, all of it was in separate pieces. Back in the day of the first Cricuts and pre-design software, most images were fairly easy to assemble, and you had a guidebook that helped you. In these current days, there's lots to choose from, but I'm telling you as a card maker, primarily cutting cardstock, some of those images are downright difficult. I would put these daffodils in that category. It literally took me 2.5 to 3 hours to assemble those flowers, but the finished product is just beautiful. I made the card base from one of Sam Calcott's tutorials on YouTube and added the flowers to each layer. The white baby's breath looking florals are a die set in my stash. I cut the recipient's name with my DS. I decorated with tiny butterfly stickers and embellished with some white gel pen and blue gems. The background papers are new in my stash from a friend who gave it to me as a birthday gift. They are from Joann Fabrics. This card does fold flat for mailing and is impressive as a mantel piece.
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 love a good theme card. I love to personalize a card with someone's name and fit it into the design or make it the centerpiece of the design. This one I fit it in. Sometimes, it's easier for me to create a card if there is a theme involved, especially for a masculine card. I mean, I'm all about the froo froo, flowers, butterflies, hearts...I can go on forever with those.
I do like how this card turned out. I hope the recipient enjoyed as well.
The image is from Cricut DS. The tiny letters are from a Spellbinders card kit die set in my stash. I dry embossed the golf ball with the swiss dots embossing folder and used the debossed side. I used some glossy accents on the golf tee and it wasn't dry when I took the picture, that's why it doesn't look smooth. The was a 5 x 7 card.
I was asked to make a personalized card for a person celebrating his first year work anniversary with a company. The company wanted to the card to be over the top. I wouldn't typically use glitter card on a man's card, but she said to do it up big. So, I did. I even added a shaker element to the front. The funnest thing about doing this project was I knew the recipient and it was a lot of fun to personalize the card to him. This is a 6x6 concertina fold card card. It was more like a book when finished. I cut all the elements with my cricut from design space. I'm told he really enjoyed the card.
