6. March 2010 by admin.

Ok, so I have seen Dawn McVey build these flowers from paper punches and have been wanting to try them for months.  I finally tried it out and I had so much fun making the yellow one that I decided to make 5 more in different colors.  I am always in need of birthday cards and thought it would be nice to have some on hand when I don’t have time to make them.  I think I might make up a bunch of the flowers to have on hand to make card making go a bit faster too.  These would be perfect to make while watching Greys Anatomy

This is the first one I made.  I used my EK success punches 1 3/4, 1 1/2, 1 1/4 and 1″ circle punches.  I inked the edges in a darker shade of yellow and then crumpled them up and unfolded them.  I glued the circles together and added a button with PTI twine for the center.  The border punch is Martha Stewart and the leaves are Stampendous - Sunny Flowers that I stamped and cut out.  Sentiment is TCP Studio-Greetings.

Here’s a close up of the flower.  Makes me think of spring!

Here’s another set of cards I made to have on hand.  I needed three and didn’t have much time so I made about 10 of these since they were quick and I really liked how they turned out.  I used box of dots by Hero Arts and the sentiment is the same as above.

Here’s some masculine birthday cards I made to keep on hand.  I gave one to my 15 year old cousin and one to a co-worker.  Again clean and simple and very happy with the look.  I used Hero arts- snippets and the sentiment is also Hero arts- for him.

Here’s a card I made for my cousin’s daughter.  The sketch was from the pink elephant challenge from last week.  Image is imaginisce and paper was in my stash.  Rhinestone from Queen and company.

Well that’s all for now.  What did you think?  I’d love to read your comments.  Thanks for looking and enjoy your Saturday!

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6. March 2010 by admin.

I made this card for our PTA.  Every year they hold a book fair at conferences and then they buy us books of our choice for our classrooms.  I made a second one for one of my students and his family because they bought several of the books on my wish list.  It’s such a great program and I like to let them know every year how much I appreciate all of their hard work.  I was on Nichole’s blog from PTI and she had done a card like this with one of their new February releases found here http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c64e753ef012877865fed970c-pi.  This made me remember a stamp set I have from inkadinkado called circle and dots and a card that I had made similar to hers last year. The one I made here http://wheredoesstacystimego.com/category/congratulations/ used a variety of colors so I decided to try using monochromatic colors like Nichole did.  When I was looking through my ink pad drawer I found a ColorBox chalk cat’s eye set in the colors used below.  Then I found that I had matching paper so I went with it.  I like how the paper turned out.  I stamped an entire sheet of white cs in this print and then cut the size I needed for the two cards.  It’s hard to see but the background paper is a burgundy that matches the big circle image.  I used solid black ribbon from Offray and two staples to finish it.  The thank you sentiment is from TCP Studio Greetings (found at HL).  I will definitely be doing more of these in monochromatic colors!  I’ve been watching the girls at PTI do it for years and have never tried it until now.  Thanks PTI crew!  I’m sure you are all familiar with Papertrey Ink, but if you are now you have to check out the website and Nichole’s blog.  Whenever I need some inspiration I go straight to her blog.

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