Friday, June 28, 2019

Cards

I'm not good at making cards, but I keep signing up for swaps for practice.
Owl card:
 I took out all my owl die cuts and decided on this one, because I wanted it to fit most of the card. Found the background in my die cuts as well. I glued him on to it and spelled out 'hello' with some letters and foam tape.
Button card:
 I couldn't find my button stash, so just used some printed wooden ones I got in a swap last month.
I had to make a few birthday cards for friends.
 This one I used a couple washi tapes for the backgrounds, layered some paper and some balloons from a premade card to it.
This one was already done, I had it from a card kit a while back.

Saturday, June 22, 2019

pocket letters

I keep thinking I should make more pocket letters, they are so fun, but don't require a ton of effort.
This one I went with a wild animal theme, mostly because the stickers and the paper were on my desk.
 It started with the cheetah print paper, but I didn't have enough to do the full 9 pockets, so I also went with the map paper (got it in the same swap as the cheetah paper), and added the scaley paper to the mix. As I was adding the 3D stickers, I decided they needed a little something to separate them from the backgrounds, so added some map paper and some green paper.
The goodies:
 I added some more wild animal stickers, some washi, some goodies, and some of the paper and stickers I used.
Then back:
 I know it doesn't go with the theme, but sometimes I just grab random paper and use it. I have too much paper, I mostly add the backs just to use up paper.
 This one was again the stuff I had on my desk. I had the egg wraps (middle row) and the ribbon. I chose some papers to go with them, and used a lot of the layered stickers from Dollar Tree. The top row has some paper that looks like doily bunting. I added some heart stickers to the top and middle rows.
The goodies:
 I added some of the paper I used, some stickers, some of the egg wraps, some bling, some punchouts, some planner stickers and a roll of washi.
Close-up of the washi:
It's really thin, and has feathers on it.
The back:
This one goes more with the front paper.

ATCs

Flower ATC:
 I mostly just used scraps from my desk. The flower image came from a vintage book page and the piece on the top is a sticker.
 This one has a background of washi, I just added a couple stickers on top.
Bicycle ATCs
 I basically just started by going through my paper pads and looked for bicycles. The top one was from a metallic treated paper pad, I just added the washi to the top of it. The bottom one, the bicycle was cut from some cutaparts, I added some butterfly punches to the top of it.
Birthday ATCs
The top one has some clear stamps with some washi. The bottom one has a paint chip card as the background, I stamped the birthday phrase on a die cut and added some stickers to the bottom.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Cards

I'm not great at making cards, but I keep signing up for card swaps. Here are some cards I made recently. And these are in backwards order, because that's how I was looking through my folders.
Made this one for a friend going through a hard time:
 Basically I took apart a card for the tree/girl image, I attached her to a book page background, and added the bible quote on top.
This is a balloon card:
 I used some clear stickers from Hobby Lobby, I put them on some white cardstock and cut them out. I just added them to a card back from Hobby Lobby.
Monster card:
 I just layered some patterned paper and stickers.
O themed card:
 For some reason I couldn't think of a good o theme, so just went with orange. I layered some patterned paper, some orange washi and stamped a sentiment on top.
Random card:
 I layered some scraps that were on my desk, a playing card and a clear sticker that was was on some white cardstock.
This is a Use what you get card:
 My partner sent me the bunny die cut, I added it to a purple circle and some patterned paper. I stamped a couple more rabbits on the paper and added a sticker to the top.
Bee card:
 I just added the diecuts and stickers on some patterned paper.
Spring notecard:
 I had these flower punchouts that I just layered on a card blank.
Spring notecard:
 Another flower piece, I layered it on a card blank with some think bee washi.
Spring notecard:
 I added the butterfly sticker to a purple doily diecut and that on a colored doily diecut and all that on a card blank.
Spring notecard:
This is my second try on the flowerpot card. I used a peachy cardstock for the pot (kinda thinking a terra cotta pot), with some lace for the rim. The flowers started as yellow diecuts, but they looked kinda blah, so I added some different colored die cuts to it.