Make a Card Monday: Thank you

This week's card is all about the thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for the gift. Thank you for house-sitting. Thank you for dinner. Thank you for the flowers. Thank you for being you.

I think this basic design will cover all manner of thank yous. I got the inspiration from a pin on Pinterest. I thought...this is so simple but it's elegant and gets to the point. I'm sold.

So here's the designs I came up with for my card stash.

p.s. I'm really loving this Make a card monday. It's really forced me to sit down and take some time and make some cards. I'm not spending a ton of time on them either. I probably spend more of my time wasting away on Pinterest than actually working on this card.

I made 4 this time. 2 with cutout writing and 2 using the leftover letters. Why waste paper right? Plus I get 2 more cards out of the deal.

So the first two.

This is a very basic design. All I did was use my silhouette to cut out the title and banner.

Set up a design page with the settings of your card laid out flat. I used a card with a 10"x6.5" size.
Type "thank" in Rockwell font size 72.
Type "YOU" in capital letters, Rockwell font, size 100.
Add your banner image below. I downloaded the echo park pennant banner for this project. Resize to fit under the YOU.
Group your images and use the "align center" to make them centered evenly.
Move your grouped image around on the right-hand side of the card until you have it in the location you want it. I just eyeballed it.
If you want the banner to cut all as one you will need to weld the triangles to the rope. A. Use your mouse to draw a box around the banner. B. Click on Release compound path in Modify. C. Select the rope piece and drag it down until it sits on top of the triangles. C. Draw a box around the group. D. Select Weld in Modify. Walah! Done.
Cut out your image.

I made one card using a blank white card and the other from a sheet of kraft cardstock.

I decided that I needed something behind the thank you because it looked very plain and kind of boring so I thought I'd add some tulip pictures from a trip I recently took. Nothing says thank you like flowers so it seemed fitting.

This is the first picture I used. An entire field of red tulips. I thought having a picture full of color would be perfect for the background.

When I laid the red tulip picture behind the kraft cardstock I didn't like it as much so I decided to print another picture of purple tulips. That worked much better.

I had two options here: I could either glue down the picture on the back of the cover page or on the inside page. I chose to glue it to the backside of the cover. I thought if I wanted to write any notes I couldn't do it very cleanly on top of the picture. Also there wouldn't be a whole lot of room underneath the picture. You know, if I'm long-winded that day, or something.

Notice that I trimmed down the side of the picture. My picture printed out 6 inches wide and my card is only 5 inches wide. So I needed to trim it. Before I cut I made sure that my picture covered all of the thank you on the front. Next, I closed the card and drew a line on the picture where the edge of the card was. Then I knew exactly where to cut it.

Now just put glue on the backside cover. I use an e-z runner for my tape. It's easy, quick and puts down as little or as many sticky tape lines as I want.

Press down on the front of the card to adhere the front to the picture. Before doing this, I lightly closed the cover and made sure the picture was exactly where I wanted it then pressed down enough for it to adhere permanently.

I love how it looks too. Very elegant and simple but fun. You could add a red or green border if you like but I ended up not doing that. I wanted to keep it simple.

It wouldn't take you long to make several of these cards once you figured out which print you wanted. I saved my silhouette page so that I could pull it up later if I wanted to make more of these cards.

Also, you could do whatever color cardstock you wanted and trim it down to fit in your envelope.

This is the picture behind the kraft-colored card.

Next I had the leftover letters from the two cards I cut out. So I thought I'd turn those into a couple cards. No sense wasting those letters.

Since I was using flower pictures I figured I might as well continue that trend.

I printed out a tulip picture and glued it onto the front cover of a card. I picked an image that was pretty all on it's own. For the previous cards I had to use pictures with smaller images of tulips, ex. the entire field of tulips vs. this one that shows only a half dozen or so and a closer level.

I used my xyron sticker maker to adhere the letters. I didn't want to try the tape runner or use glue dots or a glue pen. That seemed way too messy for me.

That was very easy and simple. I love the outcome and I'm glad I have these on hand for any thank you's I might need to send. Note: I added a punched butterfly to fill the space on the first card.

Thanks for reading this post. Have a great day!