More Cards

It's getting redundant, but this is what I love to do the most, make cards!

When I sat down and designed this card, it was meant to be a wedding card, but I think it could be used for other occasions, too.

I couldn't find a ribbon that I liked for this so I bought two. A thin pink one, and a wider white one, I simply glued the pink one on top of the white one. (If you do this, you'll want to work with the ribbon quickly, once the glue dries it's no longer soft and pliable). I adhered that ribbon to a pink piece of card stock, all across the inside and front of the card, in one continuous piece.
On the inside I then taped down a square of green paper on the right hand side, where you would write the message.

On the outside, I took the same green paper and cut a pretty looking 'medallion' out of it, I stamped the words "on your special day' onto this piece of paper, and used the same ink to "stain" the edges.
I adhered this with 1/8" thick foam squares, so that it is popping off the card a little. I then stamped a heart in the bottom right corner and lightly shaded in the heart with a colored pencil.

Like before, I couldn't waste the scraps, so I made gift tags with the extra!

Scraps

I I had a lot of scraps pf the paper and ribbon from the brown card below, so I decided to make a few gift tags rather than throw them away. Here are a few that I made.

Look at that adorable ribbon- Do you think I could let that go to waste?!?

Pocket Cards

For a recent card swap I made a "pocket card" I don't know if that is and actual name for this or not, but I'm going to go with it.

Out of a medium brown paper, I cut pieces that were 4"x12". I folded this strip of paper 4 inches from the top and two inches from the bottom. I glued along the outside edges of the 2 inch fold, to make a pocket, the 4 inch fold was left to flap open and closed.
I then cut 1/4" thick strips of paper and glued them along the edges of the card, inside and out.
After that I took a cream colored card stock and cut it into 3x5 inch rectangles, and stuck a ribbon down the left hand side. This piece goes into the 'pocket' of the card and is, of course, where you would write the message.

I took a coordinating ribbon and glued it across the front of the flap of the card.

On top of the ribbon I layered three different sized flowers, and glued that on.

I mixed and matched some of the flowers for some variety.

Birthday Invitation

For my sons first Birthday I handmade his party invitations. They were pretty easy.
I cut 4x6 rectangles out of the background (polka dots) paper.
I drew the number one onto some card stock and cut it out to use as a stencil, So I traced the number 1 onto the yellow paper, and cut out the number.
I took a set of party themed stamps that I bought at Target and stamped the images onto the invitation.
I then took a black pen and added "stitches" around the outline of both the background paper, and the Number One

Valentine Card

For a recent card swap I made a Valentines card.

I started with white card stock, and folded it to make a 4x6 card. I cut a 1.5x1.5 inch square from the front portion of the card.
I then cut red paper to be 3.5" by 5.5" and I cut a 2x2 inch square out of that.
Next, I cut out a 2x2 square of pink paper, and cut out the center 1.5"x1.5".
Lots of cutting squares. Here's what the pieces looked like.

I then cut 16 gauge wire and bent it slightly. I glued one end of the wire to between two small hearts that I had cut from the same red paper as above.

Next, I glued the other end of the wire to the white paper, right above the cut out box. On top of that I layered the pink square of paper, and then the red layer of paper.

I then stamped/embossed the words 'Be My Valentine' on the front. Voila!

Gift Tags

In November, the cardswap I go to swapped gift tags instead of greeting cards.

Poinsettia tags, these were very simple, I traced a pattern I made onto the poinsettia patterned paper, and then cut it out, to get the tag shape, then took my favorite scrapbooking/cardmaking glue, Scotch Quick Adhesive, and outlined one poinsettia with the glue, then sprinkled on some red glitter, and shook off the excess. Very Easy.

Snowman Tags For these I made myself a round top tag shaped pattern for the green paper, then trimmed down the card I used for the pattern and used it to trace on my red paper.

I used a snowman punch on the bottom corner of the tag, and glued the two papers together.

I cut a slit in the top of the tag, and ran some red and white striped scrapbooking ribbon through the whole I created, and glued the ends of the ribbon together.

Ornament Tags For the ornament tags I started with white cardstock and cut it into 2 inch circles.

I took green and pink scrapbooking ribbons and glued them across one side of the circle.

I took some gold DCWV cardstock and cut out the top of the ornament, using my Kraft Edgers scissors across the bottom. I used a 1/8" hole punch in the top and then threaded some thin white "rope" I found in the scrapbooking aisle through the hole in the ornament topper, and tied a knot on each end of the rope.

Buttons and Bows Tag Here I made a pattern for the shape of the tag and traced it on the green paper, I again trimmed down the cardstock I used as my pattern, and used it as a pattern for the white paper. I glued the green and white tags together.

I Threaded some scrapbooking ribbon through two of the buttons, and then glued all three buttons down with my wonderful Scotch Glue.

I punched a hole, and set a silver eyelet at the top of the tag, and ran some red cording through the eyelet. I took 20 gauge wire and wrapped it around the red cord, and used pliers to curl the edges of the wire.

Santa Tag My personal favorite.

I cut 2" circles from white paper, and 2" circles from red paper. I cut small circles (about 1/2") out of peach and black paper. I cut small triangles from the red paper again and then small rounded crescents from the white paper.

I attached the white and red circles with a small strip of paper folded in half, each half glued to the edge of one of the circles.

I Cut the peach and black circles in half and glued them to the edge of the red circle as Santa's feet, hands, and face. I took a black velvet ribbon I found and wrapped it around the belly of Santa, held in place with my handy Scotch glue.

Cut a belt buckle from a golden-yellow cardstock and sprinkled it with glitter then glued it into place on the belt.

Last Step: I glued on the hat and the fur lining of the hat.

Penguin Stocking

My mother always made our Christmas stockings So I decided to give it a shot for my sons first Christmas.

For the Stocking I started with a nice basic red fabric, and cut it into my stocking shape.

I took some holiday fabric I found and cut out these cute little penguins from the fabric. I lined the penguins and the Christmas trees up in a pattern and pinned them down, I quadrupled up on some white thread and stitched all the pieces down with some uneven 'x' shaped stitches. I did the stitches so thick and uneven to give it a very handmade look.

I just happened to make a matching onesie for my little guy to wear on Christmas day.

For the onesie I took some red fabric (the same red fabric I used on the stocking) pinned it all around the collar of a plain white onesie, and just hand stitched it in place. I took the same red fabric and sewed in a small square on the front of the onesie, then took a couple of penguins and stitched them on.

Turkey

Here's a simple Craft I did, but I think it is cute. First I papier mached a balloon and let it dry completely.

Then I cut like one million strips out of brown tissue paper (maybe not quite a million). Then I glued the paper strips on in rows, starting near the back, then just gluing rows in front of each previous row, I just glued the strips flat down on the bottom of the turkey.

For the head I cut the shape out of cardboard, glue the tissue paper on it in a sort of mosaic layer way and then painted the beak and waddle.

Tombstones

My sister and I made some simple tombstones as yard decorations, I just cut a cardboard box, and made tombstone shapes. We painted them black, then used white paint to add the names to to grave markers, we went with a Harry Potter theme, we're nerds I know but it was fun.


I also cut strips of cardboard and attached them to the back with masking tape to support the tombstones in my yard.

Halloween Ghosts

I made some window hangings for Halloween, Just lay out some wax paper pour some school glue out in the shape of a ghost, and place some wiggly eyes in the glue while it's still wet. At First I just used the plain white glue, but decided to add orange and black food dyes to make some of the ghosts more colorful, I also made a few pumpkins with the orange glue, and spelled out the word 'BOO' in black, for the letters in BOO I had to try more than once because the glue runs more than I thought it would, so I had to leave lots of space inside the letters.

So easy, and cute, this will be great when I have preschoolers

and MORE Cards

I made new cards for the next month's cardswap.

First the birthday card. Simple I cut 8-1/2 x 11 red cardstock in half lengthwise then folded it in half and cut the edges off of one half... like so:

































I used Kraft Edgers Scissors to cut a length of patterned paper from making memories, I cut it just wider than the skinny portion of the red cardstock.

















































Attach the two pieces and you get this:





































Next I stamped "Happy Birthday" on a smaller piece of the same red cardstock and voila:






























The other cards I made were Thank You






I layered two flowers I bought in the scrapbooking aisle to some cardstock using some cute little brads, then I painstakingly cut out circles from a golden colored cardstock, and then cut out slightly smaller circles from a dark brown cardstock, stuck all those circles onto the card, and then used a silver gel pen to write in the "THANKS"

More Cards

As I previously mentioned, I don't like paying large sums of money for greeting cards, just to end up having them thrown away- So I decided to get involved with a cardswap in my area. I had to make 14 cards, and I will get to swap out some of them so that I get a bigger variety of cards.

I started out with a pack of cards and envelopes from Halcraft, and a package of embellishment paper from Making Memories.

I cut some of the embellishment paper into 2-inch squares.









I laid out the squares of paper in a sort of tile pattern, and glued them in place with a glue stick.









The Finished Product- I like it, it has a little bit of a 'mod' look to it, but still a little classic I think.













All 14 cards, ready for the cardswap.

Getting Started

I'm new to this, but I enjoy crafts and have one son (7 months old) who is one of my main inspiration for crafts. I would like for this to be a way for me to share my ideas, but mostly to gain resources and get new craft ideas from others.