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

***This idea is from the Nov/Dec issue of PaperCrafts Magazine on page 78.***

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.Here is one more using the Close to My Heart booking set for December '09 and some Die Cuts with a View paper.

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.