Thank-you sewed up!

These are an oldie but goodie, a few years ago I made these for my Christmas card, I just found the book again the other day so I HAD to make them again, only this time some "thank yous." I sewed the stripped sections on with some green thread and a zig-zag stitch.Sorry this picture is a bit blurry but I had to show the fun sparkly glitter paper :)

More Christmas Cards

So since I got a bit carried away with cutting out paper for my mom in laws cards, I realized that I cut WAY TOO MUCH! I couldn't just throw all of it away... I made more cards, sewing and all. I ended up putting different things on the front then what I made for her. This one here is a photo mount, I inked the edges and added some little snowflakes from a small set I have, then I traced the circle and cut it a little bigger so I had an edge to glue onto the photo mount. I then used another circle punch and another stamp set to get the inside image. I adhered that with a pop dot. I also stamped Merry Christmas on these but I guess I took the picture before I had decided on that. these were the easiest by a long shot, added some ribbon that already had Merry Christmas on it and a big snowflake on some, the others I stamped Merry Christmas on them.

This is where the snowflakes came from on the cards above. These ornaments are from Joys of the Season cut at 3 1/4 maybe?

Thankful Letters

I have had these letters for about 8 months, I had this idea last year but couldn't find the letters at a decent price so I waited until they were on sale and I could get them. I finally got around to putting some paper on them last Saturday and some buttons! I think they turned out pretty good. Scroll down for some close up pictures.

I'm off to my sisters house to see NEW MOON and have a fun weekend! :)

Scrapbook Layouts for Sale... great prices!

I just wanted to give you all a heads up on a friend of mine named Chris. She is selling her scrapbook layouts. Chris is an amazing artist with some super cute spreads, all you have to do is add pictures and your done! She is selling them for great prices as well and if you live in the St. George area then you wont have to pay for shipping. Go check her out at A Scrapper's Musings and see if there is something you would like to purchase from her... tell her I sent you!

This is just one of the many she has up right now, so cute and such great detail, this one is going for $7.50 plus shipping.

Christmas Cards for mom in law

Here they are, the card for this year I came up with to mass produce for my mother in law. I really wanted to do the rounded corners at the bottom and I'm really glad I did, I think it added so much to the card. Also the sewing, I was going to skip that since I was making so many but I'm glad I decided to go with it even if it was extra work and took about an hour. I cut the ornament from Joys of the Season at 3 1/2 (I got 11 per 12x12 page) then before I removed them from the mat I took my gold pen and colored in the top and outlined the edge. I also took a flourish stamp and did just the bottom left corner with Bamboo ink from Close to my Heart. Then using a scripture she liked I stamped that in black. I sewed the gold ribbon on while I went around the edge of the card and then added another piece to tie on the ornament.

Look Who's Turning 50... Bday invites

I helped a friend make about 30 of these a week ago. They were super simple. We cut an 8 1/2 x 11 paper into thirds so they could fit nicely in an envelope for the ones she needed to mail. I printed all the "look" "who's" "50" on white cardstock from my printer then used a circle punch to cut them out. Then I used the Cricut and cut red circles for a shadow a bit bigger then the white circles. added some pattern paper and some fun black ribbon and stamped "you're invited" with red ink. She s going to print all the info and stick it on the back.

Wedding Gift Card Holder

This is such a great idea if your short on time. I used the same idea as the Pebbles Inc. paper cards down below, then I cut a tag at 4 1/4 (or big enough to hold the gift card and still fit in the card) added some ribbon and a couple sentiments and I was done.

Here is a view of the tag and card separate.

Christmas Cards with Pebbles Inc. paper

These are really fun to make. Start with a 12x12 paper, cut 1 inch from one side making it 12x11, then along the 12 inch side cut into 3 pieces at 4 inches making them 11x4. Make sense? then fold the paper in half making it 4x5 1/2. Then take the top and fold it back down at whatever length you want the flap to be mine is at 1 1/2 I think. I used a little Pebbles Inc. pad that my friend gave me for my birthday (thanks Savannah) and finished them off with some ribbon and then adhered a die cut sticker that was included with the pad on with a pop dot. I also finished it off with some pretty oval pearls from Martha Stewart, courtesy of Big Lots that I found a couple months ago. Click on the picture to enlarge it... Just as a side note, I wrapped my ribbon around 2 layers here, the flap and the middle. You could easily wrap it all the way around for a "pocket" card or you could just wrap it around the 1 1/2 in flap for a tri-fold looking card. This part will fall open from the tree paper down.

This is a card I made with the scraps left over from the cards above, I love using every last piece of scrap when I have to cut some off. The tree trunk is from the 1 inch piece left on the 11x12 paper all the rest is what I had to cut from my little pad so the pieces would fit on the cards above. I used my folk star paper punch and some DCWV glitter paper for the star and adhered it with a pop dot. Stamped Merry Christmas with a Unity stamp set and the snowman is from CTMH- O Christmas Tree set. I thought about adding some jewels for ornaments but didn't do it.. yet!

4 Square Scallop

I just wanted to show the versatility of a Sketch, the original idea of this was actually a baby card with a lion, elephant, tiger and monkey in the squares and although I liked the idea of the sketch I wasn't crazy about the animals but who knows that could change. Anyway I decided to go with this fall themed card and I had the perfect stamps to fit right inside the scalloped squares. I used Mini Monograms to cut them at 1 1/4 then I shadowed them with the orange color (marigold from Bazzill) at 1 3/4, I used some patterned paper from the DCWV Rustic stack, brown is chocolate from CTMH. I used my scallops and dots border punch from Martha Stewart to add a fun edge and finished it off with some yellow/gold ribbon from Michael's. I love how these turned out, so much so that I made more...This one I switched the paper and the stamp set and used some sheer pink ribbon.This one I switched the stamp set.

Cute Halloween Gift Idea

Aren't these fun? When I saw this I knew I had to try it. I found the idea HERE but didn't want to pay for the supplies since I have enough already! I used my Storybook cartridge for the base (marquee) everything else is from punches. This one and the Dracula below I used George and Basic shapes for the circles, triangles and rectangle.I actually cut a square in black at 2 and then cut it in half with my scissors for triangles, teeth are hand cut.

Boy Cards, I got the sewing machine out for these...

I love this card idea with the card itself opening up towards the top instead of the traditional right to left. I also love the bottom corners rounded. Cartridges I used are New Arrival and I don't have exact sizes on the tag I think it may be a 2 or somewhere around there. I used 2 sheets of patterned paper and ended up with 13 cards, 6 of each of these and the one below. I also sewed around the edges and added some pretty monochromatic blue ribbon. I stuck the tags on with pop dots and then tied the ribbon on.

I made this one with the left over scrapes of paper :)

I know... more cupcake cards :)

These are similar to the post before, I just switched it up a bit with where I put the squares and which one I stamped on. I added a candle and some glitter on these. Thanks for stopping by.

More Cupcake cards

These might need some ribbon on the side, they look a little plain... anyway here they are, made 36 of these last week, I made sure to cut everything and have my piles ready BEFORE I started assembling them it made it go a lot faster that way. Paper is DCWV and stamp set is from Stampendous called "hey there cupcake"

Baby/Kid cards

These were pretty fun, I used my new stamp set from CTMH called family ties children, then colored the image in with my water brush and ink pads. I used Storybook cartridge for the marquee cut the white one at 2 1/4 and the green one at 2 1/2 and Alphalicious for the oval I just cut the size that fit my sentiment. Paper is an old Provocraft stack from about 5 years ago.

Christmas money holders

Made 60 of these 50 for my mother in law she gives $$ for Christmas every year so she wanted something with a pocket on it. She will be able to slide the money down in the stocking :) Stocking cut at 4 1/2 from Christmas Cheer.

Tea Bag Folded Flowers

Again super easy cards, a little time consuming but worth it in the end. These are tea bag folded flowers. start with a 1 1/4 square and cut in half diagonally. I added ric rac for the steam and sewed around the edge for an added dimension. I also stamped a sentiment and hand cut around them adding them on with a pop dot. The button in the middle has some waxy flax in the middle as well.

Easy Thanks cards

I made these a couple weeks ago, really easy. This is actually a pre-made card that had "thanks" already on it but I thought I would spice it up a bit :) I added some felt border that I have had for almost a year and just couldn't figure out what exactly to do with it, then I added some jewels and a new "thanks" I love the bold black with the colorful background.

Perpetual Birthday Calendars

These are some fun calendars I put together. Then I went to Staples and had them spiral bound. I love projects like this, a bit time consuming but I love it non the less.

I added buttons to the hearts on February Buttons on the Shamrocks and glitter on the umbrella.
dew drops for the centers of the flowers for May.

Google eyes on June.

Cut the strawberry and cherries from glitter paper.

Added a red sparkly nose with stickles and some gems for the ornaments on the tree.

if you want any further info email me at cutecardsbyjamie@yahoo.com

Sweet Halloween card

Another card using the same stamp set "Everyday Jar-Gone" from ClearlyiStamp. I love this set, so versatile and has something for pretty much every holiday :) Gotta love a stamp set like that. Pebbles Inc. paper, colored the candy corn with water brush and ink pads, stamped with versamark ink and white embossing powder.

Best Fishes

This card uses the same stamp set called "Everyday Jar-Gone" from ClearlyiStamp. Paper is Tinkering from CTMH.