Gift Card Holder (Gina K)

I watched a Gina K. tutorial on YouTube this morning and learned how to make another gift card holder! Here's the outside.....

... and here's the inside (just slip the ribbon off over the top!)...

(I'm still hooked on the sei Dill Blossom paper pack!)
I'm probably going to leave these without sentiments so they can be used for any occasion! Try it and let me know how yours comes out!

Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas!!

OWH MWT Challenge

This week's Midweek Throwdown Challenge is to make birthday cards. Here's my card...

I still love the 'bursting window' technique, so I use it often! I used an SEI paperpack called Dill Blossom, an SU cupcake stamp, a Tim Holtz ticket, and some twine and a charm I found in my stash.

 Here's a closer view of the embellishments...

Enjoy!!

Piggy Birthday

One of my most challenging orders came in last month... my cousin asked for birthday invitations with PIGGIES on them!! Her daughter is going thru a 'Piggy' phase and she couldn't find any invites! This was no easy task!!! Luckily my daughter thought to go to the elementary school by us, and one of the kindergarten teachers had the perfect pig!!

I folded textured cardstock and cut the pig on the fold. My daughter came up with the idea to put a ruffle on it for a tutu, we added a bow, a googly eye, and the sentiment... isn't this adorable?!?!

I wanted to do something different for her Thank You cards, so at a local 'Cricut Swarm', I borrowed the Create A Critter cartridge and made these....

I believe the grass is a Martha Stewart Border Punch, and the clouds are cupcake tops from my Cricut Celebrations cartridge embossed with my Cuttlebug. And of course the sentiment is from Stampin' Up. I also made some extras and put Happy Birthday sentiments on them for some other orders.


I'm also working on filling an order of cards for a friend that ordered like 3 months ago!! Thank Goodness she's patient!!! I've made most of them already, but here's just one for now.....

This is made with one of the Stampin' Up Designer Series paper packs.... not sure what it's called but if anyone wants to know, I'll find out for you!! Oh... and I used Sketch #1 from Operation Write Home's Stars & Stamps Blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Please leave a comment so I know you were here!!

Spinner Cards

Stampin' Up Ocassions Mini Catalog has these really cool "Take A Spin" stamps and game spinner hands that I have been anxious to use!! I have only used the square birthday stamps, but there are 3 round stamps also...

My intention was to make not only gender neutral, but something that could be used for any age (my husband said I accomplished this!!). The brown card may be just a little more feminine than the blue card though....

All the supplies used on both cards are from Stampin' Up except for the middle strip, which is from my Exscrapaganza pack (from the HSN and no longer available).

Some Fun Cards

Just wanted to share a couple of the cards I'm making...

The 1st one is using the same idea I showed last week from my technique class. All products are from SU.... I love the effect of the swirly stamp used with the VersaMark watermark stamp! And my usual butterflies with the wings popping up a little!!

My second card is just a fun kid's birthday card... I was searching the internet for Cricut ideas and Annie's Attic had samples from the Card Making With Cricut book....

I think this one would be good for a boy of any age!!

Thanks for stopping by and looking!!!

Purple Collection

A friend of mine ordered 10 purple birthday cards. She said they could all be the same, but those of you that know me know that I have a hard time making more than 2 cards the same (I didn't get the wonderful sketches from OWH until after I finished these!) , so this was a little challenging... trying to come up with 10 different looks!

Here are 4 of them... these and a few more will be on my rainbows n butterflies facebook fanpage if you care to see more! (see the link to the right)...

 

(I don't know why some come out blurry while others don't... still working on that!)

The Happy Birthday sentiment is SU's Word Window Punch and Teeny Tiny Wishes, and the bottom one is SU's Curvey Verses (You're a wonderful reason to celebrate!). I used SU's Priceless for the pretty swirl, and the paper is all generic cardstock. For the butterfly, I layered 2 and markered the edge of the top one, and flipped the wings up for some dimension. The large flower is Prima Flowers (got a tub of them from Hobby Lobby) and I also used a marker to edge and color it. The tiny flowers are from a booth at a Scrapbook Expo... sorry, don't know the maker. Oh, and the tiny pearls are from SU also!

Please feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you think!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!