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Super simple boy card

Hi there! My card today is a very simple little boy card.  I got this adorable paper from CTMH and wanted to use it, but then didn't want to cover it up so I just left it as is.  This is one of the those cards where the recipient (a little boy) really won't notice a lot of detail or even care that it's handmade (lol!), so I just kept it very simple.  Hope you're having a great Saturday! It is H-O-T here today so we're staying inside with our AC!

All paper - CTMH
Sentiment - A Muse (I actually suggested this one - yay!)
Brads - American Crafts

Count my blessings

Hiya! My card today started out as Jen's SFYTT Saturday but I couldn't make it work so this is what I ended up with.  I love this sentiment from Close To My Heart (although, I'm not crazy about the font).  I defintely have a lot of wonderful friends and they are all such blessings to me! I don't know what I would do without all my girls! :)  Paper is SU! (again), ink is Adirondack, felt flower is American Crafts and the paper flower is punched out using a Marvy punch.

Hope you're all having a great Wednesday! I have class tonight at Scattered Pictures so I will be busy prepping for that today.  See you later!

 

~Katie

Butterfly Birthday, Round 2

Hello there!  I've got another butterfly birthday card like the one I showed you a couple of days ago.  I just love this paper so I couldn't just stop at one card - I had to make two!  This one is a very simple layout that I think really focuses on the paper.  Hope you like it!

(See the post below for all the details on  the products used.)

Happy Birthday, Jenny!

It's my dear friend Jenny's birthday today - happy birthday, beautiful!  This is the card I made for her.  I got this AMAZING butterfly paper when I was at Hobby Lobby in Colorado (we don't have it here) and as soon as I saw it, I knew it would be perfect for Jenny! I hope she likes it! :)

And on another note - God bless my husband, he got me a new laptop!  YAAAAY!  Now I can finally type without the cursor going crazy and deleting everything I've written.  I do have to copy all the old stuff onto this new machine which is kind of a pain but oh so worth it!  Thanks honey!

Sentiment, Ink: CTMH
Paper:  Butterfly - Paper Studio; Solid  colors - DCWV
Accessories: Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart; Rhinestones - A Muse; Die cut (can't remember the name) - SU!; Scallop and Standard oval Nestabilities

 

Some older cards...

No chatter today - just cards!

All images, paper, ribbon - A Muse
Ink - Adirondack
Accessories - SU! Scallop punch; Marvy paranthesis (sp?) punch; Copic markers; Stampendous glitter

 

All images - PTI
Paper, ink - CTMH
Accesories - Nestabilities

 

 

A little tip...

Here's a little tip and something that I do a lot.  A friend needed a farewell card and I already had my Christmas card workshop stuff out so I decided to just re-work one of the cards to come up with a new one.  It's always a lot easier to use the supplies that are already out then getting out tons of new stuff :)

(The first card that I did is in the post below.)  You can see that I used all of the same paper and accessories, just changed the stamping.  Also, I didn't have any stamps that worked for the sentiment so I just printed it out on the computer using Word.  I think it turned out pretty cute :)  What do you think?

Everything is Close To My Heart (CTMH) except for the ribbon which is from Craft Warehouse.

Dana's little pumpkin

This is the invitation for my friend Dana's pumpkin themed baby shower.  The inside is going to say something like, "Come celebrate Dana's new little pumpkin."  Cute, huh?

All images, paper, ink - CTMH
Polka-dot paper - Bo Bunny
Ribbon - Offray

Lots of presents

A friend of mine is buying some cards from me (the first ones I've sold! I usually just give them away but she insisted on paying for them:) and this is the card I came up with.  I have to make a bunch of them so I wanted something pretty simple yet cute.  The paper is by Heidi Grace, isn't it so cute?  And believe it or not, the tip of my paper piercer broke off (grrr!!!) so I had to use a thumb-tack! It was quite a bit harder, I must say.

Sentiment - CTMH
Paper - Heidi Grace, Peterson-Arne
Ink - ColorBox
Marvy scallop punch
Quickie Glue Pen
Stampendous Ultra-fine glitter
EK Success Corner Rounder

Guy birthday card

A friend of mine is buying some cards from me (yea!) and she asked for a couple of guy cards and this is what I came up with.  I have no idea if she'll like it so I might be posting a different one later!  (I paper pieced the present.) 

Sentiment - CTMH
Present - A Muse
Paper - Bazzil and S.E.I
Ink - CTMH
Brads - Bazzil Wings

Winter's Magic

This is a card I designed last year for my friend Dana's Christmas Card Workshop that she taught.  I love this paper!  Bright Christmas colors are my fave!

Snowflake images - SU!
Paper, ink, sentiment - CTMH
Waxy flax and beads - from Wal - Mart
Quickie Glue Pen
Glitter - Stampendous

Happy Fall!

This is another card for a CTMH swap.  I actually CASEd this card from an A Muse card that I saw at a craft store.  I like that the tied hemp keeps the card closed.

All images, paper, ink, eyelets, hemp - CTMH

Green and blue Happy Birthday

I have a ton of paper in these two colors so I've been trying to use it up lately! :)  I try to use my supplies before I let myself buy more of something else but that doesn't happen very often!  I like to hoard things too much. :) 

All images, ink, paper - CTMH

Happy Birthday, V to the E!

This card is for my wonderful friend Valerie!  It's her b-day today (she's 30-ish, hee, hee) so this is the card I made her.  She's an artist so it always stresses me out a bit when I give her anything crafty, lol. 

After I scalloped and distressed the edge of the front of the card, I decided it needed something else so I attached a small piece of the patterned paper on the inside edge of the card so it shows when it's closed.  Make sense?  It's cuter IRL, as always.

All images - CTMH
Paper - Craft Warehouse, Chatterbox
Ink - Color Box
Flower punch - Marvy
Brad - Doodlebug

Birthday

I can't think of anything new to say about my cards, lol.  This is another CTMH swap card. I think the theme was "birthday" and I figured everyone can always use guy cards. 

All images, paper, ink, brads - CTMH
Staples - Target

Sparkly Flowers

This card was inspired by a thank you card that somebody sent me.  I really liked how it used 4 different bands of color behind the main image.  This is my interpretation of it.  (It was also for another CTMH swap - the theme was flowers.)

Patterned paper - unknown
Paper - CTMH
Flower punch - unknown
Brads - Making Memories

Bright Birthday

I'll have a new A Muse card to share later but for now, here's a unisex card from CTMH.  I'm drawn to bright, bold colors so I really dig this card!

All images, ink, paper, eyelets - CTMH
Staples - um, just about anywhere has staples, lol

Another boy card

I gotta say, I really like making boy cards.  There isn't a huge amount of masculine stamps out there that I like but when I find 'em, I get 'em!  This is another card for a CTMH swap.

Polka-dot paper is from Craft Warehouse, everything else is CTMH.

CTMH Butterfly

Here's another older card from a Close To My Heart (CTMH) swap.  I started by dry embossing the blue cardstock and then distressing with sandpaper.  Then on the butterfly, I used a regular hole punch to create the dots on it's wings.

All images, ink, paper - CTMH
Ribbon - Michael's

No new cards, yet.

But here's an older one.  This is a card I made for a Close To My Heart card swap that I'm in every month.  I pretty much only use A Muse stamps except for this swap.  The theme for the month that I made this card was "Boy/Masculine" so this is what I came up with.   Looking back now, the white seems too plain, I should have distressed it or something.  I made this card 4"x4" and then it seemed too small so I mounted the whole card on a blue piece of cardstock.

All images, paper, ink - CTMH
SU! Word Window Punch