Thank You Card

My son has been struggling in school this year. He passed his EOG tests and I was so proud of him!! One of his teacher's had bought him a Wendy's gift card for all the hard work he did on the tests! I made her a thank you card for him to write in and give to her. The cards are a precut card and envelope set that my mom who happens to support my habit from time to time picked up for me. All I had to do was fold the card in half. I cut a piece of the dotted paper from DCWV called Dot Colored Lines. I picked this up at Jo Ann's when they were having a great sale on their open stock paper. The pink is lipstick from coredinations. I used an SVG cut that I'm not sure where exactly I picked it up from. I'm thinking SVGcuts.com. I added some gems and a blue ribbon and there it was! It was so simple and easy to make once I decided what exactly I wanted to do. It took more time picking out the image than putting the card together. I have some more birthday party stuff to work on so be looking back for all that!!
Hugs,
Stephanie

Valentine Thank You Cards

Hi friends!! I have received some Valentine gifts from my daycare families and so I am in need of some Thank You cards. I made this simple but cute card for them. I started with some white card stock. I took 8 1/2 x 11" and cut it in half to make 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". When you fold it in half, it fits into the envelopes you can purchase just about anywhere envelopes are sold. Then I took some red cardstock and cut it to 4x 5". I ran the red cardstock into my Cuttlebug using the Heart Blocks embossing folder. Then using my Expression, I cut a scalloped heart out of

Lipstick (pink) paper from Coredinations. I used the Doodlecharms cartridge for the hearts. Both hearts are cut at 3". Then using the Doodlecharms cartridge again, I pushed shift and the scalloped heart to create the inside heart. I cut this using paper from Me & My Big Ideas. (Not sure about the name of it. It isn't printed on the backside.) I then stamped the Thank You using cranberry ink to the same lipstick paper. Cut it out giving just a little tiny border around the edges of the stamped image. I then cut out from white cardstock a rectangle to go under the pink Thank You. I don't measure a whole lot when doing this. I just eye it and go from there. I matted them together and then attached them to the card. I wanted use some cute brads on each side of the Thank You mat but I didn't think there was enough room so I just glued it down. I then took the heart stamp (picked up somewhere a long time ago) and using the cranberry ink, stamped the image inside the card. Voila!! Until next time......

Hugs,

Stephanie

Snowflake Card

Hello Friends and Family,

I have a snowflake card for you to check out for today. I was inspired by a Christmas card that I had received and then tweaked it a little. I made four of them. Three of them will be used as Thank You cards for Christmas presents that I have received. The last of the four - I plan to send to my Grandma for her birthday in January. I love how these have turned out! They can be any kind of a card really. I used some light blue card stock that I had purchased from Wal-Mart years ago for a baby shower. It was 8 1/2 x 11". I cut it in half to make 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". I folded them in half to make the card. I then embossed the front of the card using the Cuttlebug. The embossing folder that I used was sledding. It has some really cute words related to snow and winter in different blocks. There is also a picture of a snowman and some snowflakes. I cut out a snowflake from a svg file that I found online. It is from scrapcoloring.com. The name of the file is snowflake_thick. The finished size is approximately 3 1/2 x 4 1/2". I used white card stock for the snowflake. I did do a multi-cut of 2 to get smooth clean edges. The next thing that I did was stickle the entire snowflake with crystal stickles. (I just love this color of stickles! I use it all the time.) After it dried, I cut a hole in the edge of one of the snowflake ends. I added a gem to the center of the snowflake to add some pizazz! I then used some white ribbon I have had on hand for forever and tied it around the center of the card. I attached the snowflake. I then pop dotted the center and edges of the snowflake to allow it to stand away from the card and to help the snowflake stay in one place. That is all there is to it! The longest part was waiting for the stickles to dry! Well, hope everyone is having an enjoyable day! Hope you stay warm as well!

Until next time......

Hugs,

Stephanie

Thank You Card

Hello Family and Friends!! Here is a Thank You card that I made for all those gifts that I received at Christmas. I used the Penguin and Snowballs from the Polar Bears Collection svg file at MyScrapChick.com. The cards are the 5 leftover cards from my Christmas cards. They come from DCWV the Winter Combo Box of Cards from my local craft store. I loved his one but couldn't figure out how to incorporate a snowman onto it without losing the big snowflake. All of these were cut using scraps of paper laying around from other projects. I chalked all the edges of everything except for the snow. I stickled the snow mound, the snowballs and the big snowflake on the card. I placed a blue gem on the center of the snowflake and wrote Thank You on the sign using a black marker. That was it! Easy to put together.

Thanks for checking it out! I'd love to hear your feedback.

Hugs,

Stephanie

Thank You Card

Hi again! I wanted to share with you a Thank You card that I made this week for one of my daycare families. I have been caring for their child for a year now and they brought me a giftcard for PaPa John's thanking me. I was really surprised and who doesn't like pizza especially when it will mean I won't have to cook dinner some evening!! :) I used DCWV blossoms and butterflies paper stack. Using the George cart, I cut a 6", 5", and a 4" circle out of 3 contrasting papers. I glued them down to the left of the card and cut off what hung over. I then used Make The Cut to cut out the butterfly (came from the MTC gallery) and used Tangerine font to cut Thanks. I embossed the butterfly with Swiss Dots and popped it. Added 2 blue jewels and then faux hand stitched the two outer edges of circles. Thanks for looking and have a great day!!!

Hugs,

Stephanie

Thank You Card

I do daycare in my home and I have some wonderful parents!! During Teacher Appreciation week, one of my parents had given me a gift card to Target. This week, I had another parent give me a gift too! It was some wonderful chocolates, bath and body set and a gift card to Chili's! I was so thrilled!! It really wasn't necessary but it is always great to get a special gift! Needless to say, both parents made my day!!! :) So, I created some new thank you cards! This metallic looking purple card stock from Bazzill Basic Paper called flirty paired with Me & My Big Ideas paper are becoming my favorites. I used the Martha Stewart punch for the edge below the sentiment. The flower is cut at 2" using the Sweet Treats cartridge. I embossed the flower with the swiss dots embossing folder and sewed a button to finish it off. Thanks for looking and have a great day!!