Romantic Kraft Cards

A few weekends ago I was browsing Michael's aisles and found this wonderful kraft card paper pad from Michael's Recollections line of supplies.  It is called Love Letters.  It has some beautifully embossed papers that are wonderful for making Valentine's cards or love notes for your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, well you get the idea.  I decided to make this as a gift for someone so will only share a couple of them here.  I'll share the rest once I've sent them off...so stay tuned.  This paper for the first card was patterned with writing and flowers, music, etc.  Additionally it had these two pretty birds perched on the front and they were overlaid with a burnished copper embossing.  I found the beautiful matching ribbon in the Thanksgiving decorations at Michaels on sale and knew it was a perfect match.  The other nice thing about the paper pad is it had two page of tags/embellishments in it.  The tag across the bottom is one of them.  It is kind of hard to see, but it is raised with foam stickies, it says For My Love in the same burnished copper and I stamped a love sentiment next to it in copper.

For the second card, I chose to highlight the perfect block on the left side of the page and use it as my sentiment location.  In the lower left corner there are two flowers that are embossed with a glittery red as is the word Love and the No. 206.  I used my Martha Stewart embossed heart punch and punched a small red glitter embossed heart for the upper right corner of the box and used the Butterflies Sizzlet from SU! to add a butterfly in the lower right corner.  Then to finish it off, I stamped the love sentiment you see in the box in red and added a glittery red ribbon from my Christmas ribbon stash.

I can't say enough about this paper pack.  It is really wonderful and has some beautiful patterns and embossing on it.  Check it out the next time you're in Michael's!  Great for making Love Notes for your sweetie!

See you next time.  Imagine, Create, Enjoy.

More Birthday Cards

May is another one of those months for my family...lots of birthdays along with a number of friend's birthday's, Mother's Day, graduations.  So...this weekend has been about birthday card making and attending birthday parties.  I needed a couple of girl birthday cards and some guy birthday cards.  Here is what I came up with for the gals.

This one uses paper from the Far East paper pad by DCWV.  I inked around the edges of the card and then  mounted this smaller square on the card stock after stamping the sentiment...I added a butterfly with some bling on the front. Inside I cut a smaller piece of the butterfly paper from the Far East pad and the took another piece from the pad and cut the two rosettes with my Tim Holtz rosette die.  Love that die!

Here is the next one.  I used some paper from a 4x6 pad of the K&Company Susan Winget's Spring Blossom specialty pad.  I added birthday wishes on the outside, some bling to the printed paper flowers,

and then a paper flower of maroon and yellow, a die cut butterfly below the stamped sentiment, with maroon ribbon tied around the spine of the card.  Inside is a birthday wish, a schwoopie on the bottom and another one of those fun rosettes.  I added a pop up butterfly accent along with a small maroon ribbon there to complement the outside ribbon.  Since the die cuts two rosettes, I put the larger one on the outside of the envelope to spiff it up!

Now on to the guy cards.  I used Kraft stock for two of the three cards and then some ivory card stock that I inked up around the edges to give a kinda grunge look if you will.  The first one I also used my Cricut for the sentiments on the outside.  It was fun mixing and matching from my Cricut cartridge.

These next two are similar, I liked the idea for the first one and decided to duplicate it a little on the next one.  I used paper from the new Tradewinds stack by DCWV.  It has papers that will go well for both guy and girl cards.  Can't wait to make some more.

The card on the left used ivory  card stock the one on the right Kraft paper.  I used the Cuttlebug slider die cuts to make the little sentiment tags to put on the ribbon.  Used brown ribbon, and then attached the buttons from my stash.  All in all, I think it was a pretty productive weekend.  I hope you enjoyed today's post.  Thanks for stopping by, have a great week.
Imagine, Create, Enjoy!

Kraft Class



Gift Card Holder

This past Saturday I got to take a class on crafting with Kraft paper and mixed media.  The guest instructor came down from Berkeley and we had 2 and a half hours of crafting madness and fun.  We received all kinds of goodies when we got to class...more than enough supplies to complete the projects the instructor demonstrated and led us through as well as much more to continue on our own.  The first project was a gift card holder shown here.  We used a butterfly patterned paper cut to 5 x 12 and scored at 5 inches for the center fold and then at about 3/8 inch and about 1 and 1/2 inches.  The top is kind of eyeballed.  The accent pieces are just Kraft paper stamped with a couple of different designs.  We cut out a couple of butterflies and mounted them as well as some additional accents.  A cute gift card holder.


Party Card

The second project was this card.  The instructor had some patterned paper with cows on it.  We cut that to fit on the scored card stock, added the craft envelope on the left, the arrow from a scrap from the back side of the cow paper (don't you love double sided paper!).  On top of the envelope a clear button with some thread through the eyes and glued on top of the stamped area on the envelope.  Three brads to the left of the button, added the brown arrow cut on my Cricut and other accents and the words Party till...on the front of the card.  If you don't understand or know the old saying it goes "Party till the cows come home!"  Great card!

Gift Tag

The final project I completed in the class was this tag!  I've watched my co-worker Jayne make some absolutely beautiful and amazing tags, so I was anxious to get the chance to create my own masterpiece.  We started with a standard manila colored pre-cut tag, added the seed packet accent after smudging/inking the edges.  Added a ticket with some shwoopie's on it and a Kraft square stamped with a postage stamp image, along with a small film strip stuck in next to it.  I also learned how to make an apron pleat (I believe this is the terminology).  We folded the paper after inking it up and made the pleats, added a canvas inked flower on top of a textured paper flower (material by Tim Holtz) with a small brad in the center and attached to the pleat.  I then added a little bit of floral lace on top and affixed the whole thing to the bottom of the tag.  Finally to finish it off we had some paper twist ribbon which I tied in a bow after adding the little dragonfly charm.  Turned out pretty nice I think. 

Hope you enjoyed today's post.  I certainly had a blast making it all and sharing it with you.
Imagine, Create, Enjoy.