Birthday Thank You cards

I was treated to a fabulous dinner and a fresh bakery treat by my daughter and her boyfriend. Also  received these beautiful flowers from a friend for my birthday.

I promptly made these cards to mail today.

Inside each card has a die cut Thank You in corresponding colors. (One version shown below)

Corner flip card

Saw this type of cut on YouTube and just had to try it

 Take traditional card however on the front you put it in your trimmer at 3" and place your cutting blade at the 5/8" mark and cut down to the 3" mark.
Turn the card to the inside (traditional opening and make the cut again.

 Flip the wedge you sliced down and you get the corner flip. Add a bit of adhesive to keep the flip down to the base. The pattern paper is 2 3/4" x 2 3/4"

The leaves are a die set from Lawn Fawn, and the Thank you sentiment dies are from Tim Holtz 

Springtime Thank You

I made this card for Louise who reached out to me, what a fabulous dear friend.

Downtown Abbey Die that I bought off of HSN cut from parchment paper.
EK Success border punch, the other punched are SU. Sentiment Dies are from Tim Holts.

Thank you

I was given flowers for my birthday (2 weeks ago) by a very sweet young lady and sent her this thank you card. (I forgot I didn't post this to my blog)

 Stampin embossing, stamp, border punch and pearls

 Sentiment~ Sizzix Tim Holtz

Thanks embossed card Sweet and Sleek

I may have posted this card years ago, but came across it in my Thank You card box as I sent this to a dear friend for a beautiful crocheted Angel she made for me. What a sweet surprise.
Here is the card, all items from Stampin Up

Here I embossed one of the accents to the top of the white cardstock 

I then embossed the scallop oval and it was adhered to the inside of the embossed accent , added the sentiment on a foam square to raise it up.

Hanging from that is a little jewelry tag that I stamped one of the butterflies. 

This is one of my favorite cards that I've designed. Sweet and sleek. :)

Framed bird card set

Here is a set of 4 card set, using a framed embossing folder and the Stampin' Up bird punch and branch set. The sentiments are also from various SU sets.

Re-purposed many items to make Thank You card better

The card below - I actually dissected a card base kit from Stampin' Up. I was not fond of the kit itself and re-purposed the white card stock and was left with this panel of hexagons.

The five hunter green hexagons are actually opened window pieces (which I saved the 5 pieces and will re-purpose those as well). I re-purposed the hunter green card stock actually from a file folder!
It is a very manly and textured folder (click the pic you should be able to see the linen texture of the green folder) I thought it played well with the color scheme on the hex card.

I then stamped Thank you off centered on purpose from Perfectly Penned stamp set from Stampin' Up.
The white top layer is actually raised on foam squares to add dimension.
I'll store this in my card box when I need a quick thank you card.

simple thank you

I made this for a friends of mine whom I visited a few days back. I noticed she had a bike like this as a home decoration so I took the opportunity to make a card.

The bottom I first punched a Martha Stewart heart border punch on the white card stock.
Next I cut out the blue Spellbinders scallop octagon and ran that through the fancy swirl Cuttle Bug embossing folder.

Next I had a few of these bikes already cut in black cardstock (see the first card I made with it) so I glued it to the card and added some flat back SU pearls to the bike.
Closed out the design of the card with a little sentiment from SU Teeny Tiny wishes.

Trellis layered card

I created this sleek Thank you Card for my daughter to give to a friend.
To create the element, I die cut the trellis from a Sizzix (SU) die in white. Then to create the frame, I used two of the middle to largest dies from Spellbinders scallop octagon.
I adhered the two together and only had to cut a little off the trellis die piece.

Then proceeded to cut the Provo Craft scrapbook paper to match the outer size scallop octagon.
Mounted it on black card base using foam squares.
The sentiment and punches are from Stampin Up.

Happy 4th!

Before I get to my card, I took a picture of some home decor I have in my home. I actually bought these at a yard sale last year for $1.00!! I love country charm and vintage items and I was glad to obtain these. I have them on the steps going up to the main level of our home and oddly enough my cat does not play with them!

You could easily replicate this with wooden starts, wire and floral. Ok, on to my card.
You have seen me use this image last week, but this time I made it as a thank you card!

The base is embosses with the star embossing folder from Cuttlebug. The image is from a 1999 set from Stampin' Up which I purposely off centeredin the upper left corner to replicate the American Flag. Sentiment and punches are from Stampin' Up!

Have a Happy and Safe 4th to mu American bloggers!

Puppy Thanks

My SIL asked me to make some puppy thank you cards for her Vet and everyone who took care of their very ill dog.

I was happy to do so. Using the paper Pups Cricut Cartridge I cut this dog that had looked just like Bruiser!

 The little hearts are cut from a Sizzlets SU Sizzix die that cuts and embosses these 5 little hearts! I used the smallest on the cards.

I cut him at 3" and the "Thank you" sentiment at 2". I used the sentiment from Beyond Birthday's Cricut Cart.

Here I show how I layered the inside. I used the SU thin framelets dies.

Punch out flower and butterfly cards

Created these two cards this past weekend but I am just getting around to posting them.  Using my scraps from my Stampin' Up pile - these cards were created.

Embossing the white layer and border punched with the pretty lace trim. Using a 5 petal flower punch on one card and the Butterfly punch on the other, I punched out the flower then turned it and layered it back on with a foam dimension square.

The Butterfly card is a litle different in which I used stripped of scraps to cover the butterfly. Please click the picture for a better view.

The sentiments I used on both cards are from Teeny Tiny wishes which I layered on a couple more punch outs.

Here is the inside of the cards, again used some scrap whisper white card stock and some mini punched shapes.

Grateful Bird card all leather accents

I made this card as a Thank You for my friend for giving me their leather scraps for card and crafting. I stamped the base card in Old Olive and cut the sentiment, the bird cage and bird from thin pieces of leather using my Big Shot. I am happy to see that the ink took very well to the pieces of leather and stamping also the sentiment was clear.

Please see the video where I take you through the card making process if you like.

Sisterhood of crafters - Give Thanks

Here is a card for my MIL from my boys as a response to their graduation gifts.

I am entering this in the Sisterhood of Crafters weekly challenge "Give Thanks" and Cute Card Thursday - going around in circles and Simon Says Stamp anything goes

I used SU embossing folder, Tim Holtz swirl die, Spellbinders scallop circle, Stampin Up Sentiment and the border punch from EK Success

Assembly Thank you cards

After the wonderful gifts my boys received for their graduation and birthday - I needed to be able to get these cards created for them to add a thought or two inside and get them in the mail!

I think it's important that young children write thank you cards in appreciation but that is my personal choice as a parent.

So last night I set out to create these.
I used an embossing folder from Stampin' Up called Square lattice and embossed the ivory blank note cards. To match their invitations, I sent out originally, I used the same purple card stock and Martha Stewart border punch to keep it all relative.

Glued them down to the base card - whew two steps done. (Look out carpel tunnel!)
Next step 3 and 4 was to stamp the Thank You sentiment and punch it out with the fancy label punch both from Stampin Up. Lastly - adhere the sentiment on the border so the point hits between the scallop on the border as seen above. 5 steps and 16 cards done in a little over an hour. Simple but elegant and effective! I have 5 more to create - but I am going to individualize those differently for a few folks.

Doggie Thank You's

I was asked by my SIL to make a couple thank you cards for their vet.
Here I cut the dog image from Cricut cartridge Paper Pups.

This one I ran the pillow through a Sizzix embossing folder and used a tab punch on the corners of the sentiment block. Sentiment is from StudioG I believe.

Inside layered with the same paper on the front to allow for their writing.

This one the dog was also cut at 3", pillow de-bossed as well with a different folder, I double punch to make the border and the stamp sentiment if from Stampin Up.

Red bow of thanks

I made this card for my sister - whom I visited on Sunday, she gave me some crochet items as well as a couple other things.
her favorite color is purple so that played well with the monochromatic theme at Claudia & Company #79 and the Less is More challenge of a touch of red. I used the sketch at Get Sketchy #81
Spellbinder die used for scallop circleMS border punch and SU tab punch used on the borders

Ode to the MS scoreboard

While it's been a while since I crafted anything as I had to get through over 400 blog posting in my Google Reader library, I made it through and came out with a few challenges that intrigued me.

Using the Midnight Madness sketch - I went with the plain version and took my Martha Stewart Scoreboard and made score lines and frame on the main card and the accent piece.

I recently bought this large intricate MS butterfly punch as well and thought the trio of butterflies would work well on a plain background for the Simon Says challenge. The next was the monochromatic (and one color was ok) at C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog.
Just a sprinkle of MS crystal fine glitter finishes this card off for The ABC Challenge - G is for Glitter.

The inside of my card follows the recipe at The Paper Players, one designer paper (Creative Memories), one sentiment (Sugarloaf Products) and a punch (MS) (I missed this challenge - but it so helped me complete the inside of the card.)