A Birthday and a Thank You Card

Good morning friends

I'm sharing two totally unrelated cards today. I made them both months ago so I want to get the photos filed away and out of the To Post folder.

I really REALLY wanted a Brother Scan 'n Cut so when I had the opportunity to sell my old and not-used-for-a-couple-of-years Cricut I thought that would give me some $$ towards the SNC. Woot! However, I also didn't want to sell the machine and cartridges until I knew for sure it still worked. So I pulled out some really old patterned paper from my stash and made a couple of cuts. The cartridge was Joys of the Season.

I decided I actually quite liked the test cut, so rather than toss it I made it into a Birthday Card. I added a lot of glitter to the gift portion and a Nuvo Crystal Drop to the centre of the bow.

The gift was popped up on the front and I added more patterned paper and some handwriting inside to finish it off. This card went to my Mom to replenish her Birthday Card stash. I used up the whole sheet of patterned paper, which always feels good

My second card today uses more older patterned paper from my stash. It's beautiful stuff - a pale aqua colour and all the white flourishes are flocked with white. So it's a very textural card.

I had the 3-d sticker in my stash, and cut the 'thanks' from Verve stamp packaging. I always loved the Verve packaging and saved it to re-use whenever I ordered from them. Sadly, the owner has moved on to other things now and closed her on-line shop.

Here is a peek at the inside, with lots of room to write my note of thanks.

I wish I could show you how pretty the flocked paper is but you just couldn't capture it in a photo.

Supplies for Present Card:
White, green, turquoise and black card stocks
Patterned paper - Hallmark (years and years old)
Cricut cartridge - Joys of the Season
Nuvo Crystal Drops
Stickles
Black marker
Wonky stitched edges - MFT Stamps

Supplies for Flocked Thank You Card:

Patterned paper (flocked) - Me & My Big Ideas

White card stock

Scallop card insert - Sizzix

Wonky Stitched Rectangle die - MFT Stamps

Stickers - K & Company

Thanks die - Lawn Fawn

Seam Binding

Copic Markers

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Three Pine Sprig Holiday Cards

Good morning friends

Today I'd like to share some Christmas cards as I plan on working on my holiday cards throughout the year.

These ones were inspired by the Cricut cut pinecone and sprig. I must have cut them at least 6 years ago and got them assembled with their shadow layer. Then they went into the Christmas 'embellishment' bin and for some reason I didn't get anything done with them until now. I have a few left for other cards another day.

Still loving red snowflakes!

This version happened because the pinecone sprigs were sitting on my stamping table while I was working on a different project and there was this strip of green holly foiled patterned paper on top of the scraps in the paper pad. The card practically made itself, ha ha.

All three of the pinecone sprigs have a copper metallic card stock shadow, which gives them some holiday shimmer.

Supplies for plaid cards:
White, green, brown, and copper metallic card stock
Patterned paper - Recollections
Pine Sprig - Cricut (Joys of the Season)
Sparkle gel pen - Sakura
Bakers Twine
Stitched Fishtail banner - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Be Merry die - Lawn Fawn
1012 Snowman Twist Circle Pop-Up (snowflakes)
Stitched Mini Scalloped Rectangles - MFT Stamps
Stitched rectangle die - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Words inside - Lawn Fawn

Supplies for Kraft card:
Pine Sprig - Cricut (Joys of the Season)
Patterned papers
Noel die - Lawn Fawn

Patterned paper - Recollections

Copper textured, green, brown, and red card stocks

Sakura glitter pens

Stitched rectangle die - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Nuvo Crystal Drops

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