Celebrate in Style

Happy Birthday is always in fashion!

Making this card was like playing "paperdolls"! Does anyone remember playing paperdolls when you were little.  I used to love to change the dresses, using the paper tabs to keep them on.  Yesterday when I was making this card that is all I could think of, just being a little nostalgic. For the card, I used a dress form template that my sister (figaro) gave me months ago and was playing with punches and came up with this hat.  The buckle is another punch.  It is kind of hard but can you see the gold shoe and pearls?

Spring Pop Up!

This card started out trying to do something with the paper that I purchased a while ago at Stamped Design in Dover, NH.  I usually like to use blues, pinks and purples but this time decided green is very much a spring color. !  I used the Fifth Avenue SU set for the outside. Copic marker- Chrome Orange, was used  for the flower. MS border punch and nesties for the frame of the flower.  Sizzix "little leaves" was used for the foliage. The picture shows the flower a little dull but Chrome Orange Copic Marker is actually very brillant as well as the paper!

Then you open up the card and it is a pop up card with flowers and butterflies. The style of the card is called an M fold design.   I colored the SU Stipple Butterfly with copic markers,  Chrome Orange and Canary Yellow.  MS butterfly  and fence border punches were used and  the Sizzix EF from SU (the name escapes me but it coordinates with Fifth Avenue Floral). The flowers are held on with acetate cut in 1/4 stripes. Check out Valita's blog at http://valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com/2010/01/pop-up-balloon-card.html

Easter Fun!

Here is another cute bunny/chick card. Alot of punches used for these cute little creatures. My sister, Connie, gave me the instructions a while ago for the Stand Up Card, (She made me one for my birthday last year)  so this is my first experiment with this type of card.  It took me a couple of days to think about the design of the card but I hope you like it.  I was going to put Happy Easter on the bunny's feet but decided to put it in the inside of the card instead.  The bunny is all punches from SU, oval, heart, round. The grass is sizzix and the tiny butterflies are from K& Company Grand Adhesions

I used Velcro fasteners for the bunny but I think next time I am going to adhere the left side and use velcro for the right side. The center of the card is the sizzix easter basket and some pretty sticker eggs I found at Michael's. The cute little chick is smaller than what I have seen on SC but same idea using the 1 3/8 inch scallop punch from SU.  The sentiment is something I found on the internet which I thought was fun for an easter basket theme. The left side behind the bunny is just an assortment of flowers from punches and dies that I have with the vine being the SU bird punch.  Another idea for the next time is to use one of my Cuttlebug EF for the background behind the Easter basket.

More Easter cards to come!  Thanks for coming!

St Patrick's Hat

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day,  I wanted to try the nestabilities die hat.  I saw it on Joda25 gallery-very cute!  Tried a couple different versions.  The plaid hat embellishments are stickers from Joann's.  Very simple design using the label #8 and the brim and the black strips are 1/2 inch.  The buckle is a punch from EK success that I punched in gold paper.  I just thought this was such a cute and quick St Patty's Day card to send especially to a male which is always hard to do.  Thanks for looking!

Warm Christmas

This is a card that I wanted to make at Christmas time but the time just got away from me.  I didn't get time to actually send out any Christmas cards!  I didn't want this idea to be forgotten so I decided to do it now instead of waiting for the end of the year. I used punch bunch for the wreath and Carlacraft punch for the poinsettas. The leaves were from the Stampin up bird punch as well as the fire in the fireplace. I love the sizzix pot die and I used copper metal from Ten Second Studio  ( I seem to always try to find a place to use metal). Jackie's tutorial for the fireplace is my inspiration which can be found at  www.jackietopa.typepad.com The candles on the mantle are from EK success punch-it is actually just the top of the birthday cake punch.