Thinking of You

Do you believe it!!! It's March 1 and you know that means its time for the latest challenge over at 

Love To Scrap challenge.

Hope you can join in the fun and submit one of you creative makes. We'd love to see your project.

 

When I was deciding on what to design for this card, (I guess I was in a pink mood. LOL),

and since I have a lot of scraps. I went to my pink drawer and found lots of pink scraps that worked together. 

I cut strips 1/4" wide and started to lay them down on a white card layer. Since my card is 5X7, my top layer is 4 3/4" X 6 3/4"

I also had a die cut out on my desk that worked with the card and the strips

 so I added that to the card front. 

The flowers were made using pink CS (what else LOL) and a hand punch. The leaves also were made using a few punches as well.

Pink reminds me of spring and this card can fit that bill. Pink, flowers and leaves. 

Yep and spring is right around the corner. 

Well that is it for this card. I love how it turned out. 

Hope this gives you some inspiration and hope you will try this one out. 

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you soon.

 

Merry Christmas

Welcome back. It's March 1 and time for the next Merry Little Christmas challenge. 

I decided to make a card design that was introduced to me many many, many moons ago. It's an envelope box card.  Fun to make and really makes a statement to the recipient

This is a card that would be difficult to mail but you could add it to a gift bag to WOW the recipient along with their gift.

The card is really a box with about a 1/4" thick. 
The flap that you normally close to mail stays upright so it looks like its an open envie. 

I added some clear wrapping paper and some tulle in the opening of the box as a filler.

 (Hope you can see it in the pic below.)

Next I made flowers using Heartfelt poinsettias stamps and dies. 

You can see that it is attached to a clear plastic strip.

In order to have the flowers and the holly that you see, stand upright, I attached them to plastic I save from packaging. 

I save the packaging and cut strips to hold the flowers, leaves or whatever I want to appear to be standing. Since the plastic packaging strips are clear, they disappear into the design. 

After attaching the flowers and the holly to the clear plastic strips I slide them in front of the tulle and the clear gift wrap. 

The holly I used is actually a ribbon from May Arts wrapped around those plastic strips that I cut. In the pic below you can see some of the tulle. 

I also added some glitter to a few of the plastic strips for added pizzaz

Again, here is the finished card. Hope you enjoyed this cool creation

Products used:

Clear wrapping paper and Tulle - Michael's
Holly Ribbon - May Arts (EX45) and its still available on their website.

CS - White, Green, DP

Stamps and Dies - Heartfelt Creations (They are no longer in business)

Ink - Memento - Rhubarb Stalk

Gold Glitter

Hot Glue Gun - Ryobi - Home Depot

Well that is it for this card. I love how it turned out. 

Hope this gives you some inspiration and hope you will try this one out. 

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you soon.