Dragon Thank You Card

Hello all! Happy Wednesday! I made this thank you card for a dear friend of mine who's very much into the Asian EVERYTHING! I took several millions of pictures of this card from all sorts of angles but I just couldn't get the coolness to really come out. First off, the background card is this very pretty pale fawn parchment (that totally looks white) and, secondly, the red that's the dragon is actually this really cool crayon treatment that I read about yesterday and just HAD to try! Oh, the tag that's brown is actually white paper that I colored by hand as well.

Materials Used:

• Dark Red Cardstock
• Parchment Paper
• Black Cardstock
• White Cardstock
• Asian doodad that I had from a candle
• Cricut Cartridge - Pagoda
• Stampendous Clear Stamps - Flower Chat (Thank you)
• Colorbox Ink Black (stamped very lightly, I wanted that aged effect)
• Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink - Amaretto, Mocha Mama, and Midnight Confession
• Crayons in reds and oranges

Thank You Card with Teacher's Quote

I was going through this damask phase when I designed this card for my daughter's second grade teacher at the end of the year. It's SO pretty! And I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors! It's a little hard to see in the picture, but I shadowed the quote with a lime green version of it as well. It looks really cool in person.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Damask print (I made this pattern using a clip art that I found)
• Flourescent Green Cardstock
• Black Cardstock
• Lime green glitter (for thank you)
• Teacher quote
• Cricut cartridge (for thank you, but for the life of me, I can't remember which one I used! If anyone recognizes it, please let me know and I'll update this post).

Mod Podge Thank You Card

Hello all. I saw a similar card on Split Coast Stampers that was for a baby and liked it so much that I adapted my own version into a thank you card for a new friend of mine. The background paper is torn bits of paper with the edges chalked and then laid down and covered in modge podge. The effect is even MORE stunning in person than the photo can ever do it justice. Just a warning, the modge podge will add a considerable thickness to it so it will end up feeling more like handmade paper then the normal 20 lb weight, so, if you're going to mail this card, be sure to double check the weight. :P

Materials Used:

• Brown Cardstock
• ProvoCraft - The Slab II paper pack (for the pink)
• White Cardstock
• Stampendous Clear Stamps - Flower Chat (Thank you)
• Hampton Art {foot-longs} Clear stamps - Cupcakes (#SC0248)
• Creative Memories Sampler pack (background for cupcake tag)
• Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink - Amaretto, Mocha Mama
• Mod Podge
• Brown Ribbon
• Colorbox Ink Black
• Stampin' Up! Embossing Powder - Chameleon
• Crayola Coloring Pencils
• Artists chalk pastels

Swinging Monkey Baby Shower Invitation

I created this for a client who was having a monkey themed baby shower for her little boy. I love this stamp because it just captures youth so perfectly. Plus, how can you not smile looking at the joy on his face? This is an invitation inside a sleeve.

Materials Used:

• Brown cardstock
• K&Company, LLC paper - 12x12 KO Addison Stitched Strips Flat Paper (#643077 643604)
• Bazzill Basics Paper - 12x12 Petty Cash
• Stampendous Changito Rubber Stamp (wood mounted)
• Stampendous Jewel Glitter - Sea Green
• Carpet Tape
• Stampendous Stamp Stuff Embossing Powder - Detail Black

Blue Baby Shower Invitation - Shaker Card and Sleeve

I created this for a client who fell in love with the pink baby shower invitation that I made, but also loved the shaker card idea. In the window, we used her favorite ultrasound photo.

Materials Used:

• Brown cardstock
• Blue Baby Bathtime paper
• Carpet Tape
• Sulyn Industries Inc. Glitter - #6625-10 Light Blue
• Blue cardstock
• Marvy Uchida Circle Punch - 2"
• "You're Invited" Clear Label
• Overhead transparency
• Foam Tape
• Marvy Uchida Square Punch - 2"
• Ultrasound photo

Princess Baby Shower Thank You Cards

I created these thank you cards to match the princess themed baby shower invitations for my best friend. Once again, her husband created and designed the image and I turned it into this card.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Created Castle Picture
• "Thank You" Brass Stencil
• Dreamweaver Stencils Paste - White
• Martha Stewart Crafts Glitter - Tourmaline
• Sharpie - Pink
• Metal Palette Knife

Princess Baby Shower Invitation

My best friend was finally having herself a little girl! So, her artistic husband designed the picture and I turned it into an invitation. The glitter border was purposefully created in a way it would look like bricks and you're looking through a window at the castle outside.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Created Castle Picture
• Carpet Tape
• Pink-hued Iridescent glitter
• Font: Lucida Calligraphy

Bee Themed Baby Shower Invitations

I made this card for my sister's baby shower. She was having a girl and wanted to do a non-pink shower in a bee theme. My favorite part of the card ... the wings! So shiny! The inside of the card was printed on moss paper.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Bee and flowers clip art (Microsoft)
• Font: Champagne
• Glue
• Iridescent Glitter
• Artist's Chalk - Blue
• Q-tips (too apply to chalk)
• Southworth Textured Wave Paper - Moss (for inside)

Rubber Ducky Baby Shower Invitation

I made these for a client who was throwing her daughter a baby shower. The shower's theme was rubber ducks. This was my client's third grandchild. The two blue ducks represent the two boys her daughter already had and the yellow ducky was for baby #3, whom they didn't know what they would be. It was a girl! :D

Materials Used:

• White cardstock
• Green gingham checked paper
• Cricut Cartridge - Animal Kingdom (Cut the duck on shift in gradient sizes)
• Font: Fairytales
• Black Sharpie - Ultra-Thin for the eyes

Pink Baby Shower Invitation

I made this invitation for a friend's baby shower. Her colors were Tiffany Pink and Brown. It came out so cute! The pink part is a sleeve that is wrapped all the way around the invitation. And I used coordinating pink copy paper for the inside of the invitation.

Materials Used:

• Brown cardstock
• Pink Baby Bathtime Paper
• Pink Cardstock
• Clear "You're Invited" label
• Carpet Tape
• Martha Stewart Crafts Glitter - Tourmaline
• Marvy Uchida Circle Punch - 2"

Another Monkey Birthday Card

So, here's another monkey birthday card for another classmate (I'm so addicted to these cute monkeys!).

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Cardstock in three shades of purple
• Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps - Changito Bday
• Stampendous Stamping Stuff Embossing Powder - Marcasite
• Colorbox Ink Black
• Colored Pencils

Thank You Card

I made this card for my daughter's current teacher. She was nice enough to send all the kids in her class a postcard before school started welcoming them into the third grade and so, I thought I would make her a thank you card to show how much she loved it (she still has it in a place of honor in her room). LOL. So cute!

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Southworth Textured Weave Paper - Moss
• Stampendous - Flower Chat
• Colorbox Ink Black
• Stampendous Stamp Stuff Embossing Powder - Marcasite
• Fiskars Paper Edgers - Scallop
• Crayola Crayons
• Crayola Markers

Explosion Book invitation - Vegas Themed

Okay, so, last year, my most wonderful husband told me that he's sending me and three of my girlfriends to Vegas for an all girls weekend! Of course, I HAD to make something just over the top! The books were made to look like craps dice with "4" on the top and "3" on the bottom. The second picture is the invitation in it's expanded form (yes, it's HUGE!) and the third picture is a close-up of one of the sections. Each book took 5 hours to make and the house was covered in glitter for weeks! Thank goodness I only had to make 4 of these (one for me of course!). Each slide was hand painted and then covered with glitter.

Materials Used:

• Cardboard
• White copy paper (to cover the cardboard)
• Red vellum
• Circle punch
• Holographic paper
• White cardstock
• Overhead transparencies
• Various Vegas themed clip art
• Acrylic paints
• Glue
• Black copy paper (this made up the "body" everything was glued too)
• Martha Stewart Crafts Essential Colors Glitter Set - 24 pack (and every color was used except for Hematite and Onyx)
• Red ribbon
  

Just Because Flowers

Made this as a sample card to show a friend stamping and embossing and like it so much that I made three and sent them out to my Mom, Sister and friend as a "Just Because" card.
Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Southworth Textured Weave Paper - Moss
• Stampendous Clear Stamps - Flower Tops
• Stampin' Up! Stamps - Swags, Sprays 'n Stuff (bow)
• Colorbox Black Ink
• Stampin' Up! Embossing Powder - Chameleon
• Sharpie Markers (to fill in flowers, bow and free hand stems)
• Butterflies were from another Stampendous set ...

Teacher Appreciation Day - Iris Fold

I made this card for my daughter's first grade teacher for Teacher Appreciation Day.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Iris fold template - Apple (can be found at CircleofCrafters.com)
• ProvoCraft - The Slab II paper
• Red cardstock for center
• Green cardstock for stem

Blacklight Party Invitations

For my daughter's 8th birthday party, we threw a black light party and wanted the invitations to match the theme. We also went all out! We blacked out the windows, changed out all the light bulbs with black light ones and even made her a three tiered birthday cake in fluorescent colors! We turned off all the regular lights, gave all the kids glow things and turned up the music! What a blast! I will warn you though, those black lights will heat up the house in no time! Turn up the AC!

Materials Used:

• Black Cardstock
• Fluorescent cardstock in pink, green, orange and blue
• Cricut Cartridge - Beyond Birthdays

Autumn Harvest Party Invitations

I made these for my friend's annual autumn harvest party. The white leaves are cutouts from the front of the invite and you're looking into the invitation. All the wording is located in the top right when you open the card. It was a lot of fun to make.

Materials Used:

• Pre-made plain green cards (okay, so I cheated this one)
• Maple leaf punch
• "You're Invited" tag
• Orange cardstock

Birthday Cake Card

This is one of my favorite cards to make because it uses an item that's not "traditionally" used in card making - paint chip samples! That's right. Paint chips. LOL. The flowers are hand embossed and then hand cut. I saw this somewhere and had to try it!

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Southworth Textured Weave Paper - Moss
• Paint Chip samples in coordinating colors
• Fiskars ShapeBoss Embossing Stencil Set -Floral
• Acrylic Paint - White Pearl (for flower centers)
• Black pen to free hand filigrees

From this day forward ...

I made this card for a friend who got married. Their wedding colors were red and black.

Materials Used:

• White Cardstock (for the base)
• Boxer Scrapbook Productions, LLC - Item #16023 - Red & Black Stripe, Boxer Basics
• Black Cardstock
• "From this day forward ..." saying (I wrote mine on in white pen)
• Wedding couple image
• Black ribbon
• Rhinestone brad or accent

Monkey See ... Monkey Duplicate

I made this trio of monkeys for three kids in my daughter's classroom. I'm the classroom Mom and I make sure each child gets a balloon and a card signed by the whole class on their birthday. Makes them feel special. Especially now when times are tough and even tougher still for some. This month, we had three kids and since I was already using this cutie, I made three, but, each is a little different.



Materials Used:

• White Cardstock
• Cardstock in two coordinating colors
• Stampendous Changito Bday set - monkey, present, cupcake, ice cream and confetti
• Stampendous Changito DOS set - Vine
• Colorbox Black Ink
• Stampendous Embossing Powder - Detail Black
• Crayola markers
• Foam tape (to pop up the items held)

Is that what I think it is? ...

So, I have a friend who LOVES Japanese Cherry Blossom Bubble Bath from Bath and Body Works. For Christmas, I bought B six bottles of them and wanted to come up with a new of wrapping them besides the traditional. I took and empty gallon paint can and gussied it up! Oh, and these beauties hold those six bottles PERFECTLY!

Materials Used:

• Clean gallon paint can (can be purchased at any hardware store)
• Wrapping paper
• Wired ribbon
• Hot glue

Stitched Baby Buggy

This was a welcome baby card that I made for a friend of mine. I thought it was cute, but hubby took one look at it and asked, "What is it?". LOL. Men! :D

Materials Used:

• Cream colored cardstock
• Fiskars ShapeBoss Embossing Stencil Set - Creative Sampler, for the dots
• Fiskars ShapeBoss Embossing Stencil Set - Letterin - Whimsical
• DMC Floss (blue in this case)
• Coordinating papers

Gone to the Dogs

Here's a birthday invitation that my made for my daughter's 9th birthday. Her theme this year was "Give to the animals" and so we created this cute card.

Materials Used:

• White cardstock
• Printed paw prints paper (sorry, I don't have it's name, but, I did get it from JoAnn's Fabrics)
• Black 20 lb copy paper
• The dog is an image from a Cut & Copy Book titled "How To's" that I've had since the 90's
• Font: Campaign-Normal

Glittery Christmas

I know, I know, Christmas is over. But, I wanted to share this card with you that I made for Christmas 2009.

Materials Used:

• Dark navy blue cardstock
• Dreamweaver Stencils - Bare Trees #LJ849
• Dreamweaver Stencils Embossing Paste - White
• Iridescent Glitter
• Metal Palette Knife

Just a quick side note that I wish I had known while making these. Everyone LOVED their cards when they got them, but I seemed to get the same response "Loved the card and thanks for the giltter shower" >.< Oooo ... sorry!

So, what you might want to do (and please follow all the instructions on the cans and stay in a well ventilated place!) is use a spray sealer over them once the paste has dried to seal the glitter. Apparently, it mostly all rubbed off inside the envelope! Whoops!

First day

Hi all. I'm so excited to share my creations (and life) with all of you out there. First of all, thank you for stopping by and checking me out. I love, love, love, love paper. I've been buying it for years and hording it just waiting for that "right time" to use it and I finally decided that if I waited for that, then I might as well be buried with it because there isn't any better "time" than "right" now! LOL.

So, with that, let's get this party started! I have a bunch of pictures of cards and such that I've made in the past that I'm going to start posting. I will try my best to list the exact materials I can, if I remember them, otherwise, I apologize now for not knowing some of them. :D