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Make a Card Monday: Just a Note

Making this card is easy as pie and you can use anything you've got in your stash. No need to buy special paper.

The supplies that I used for this. You can always substitute different colors or even patterned paper if you like.

• White card
• Kraft cardstock
• Brown stamping ink
• Black stamping ink
• Ranger Blending Tool
• Black Pen (Precision Pen from American Crafts)
• White cardstock (3x3")
• Traveling Typewriter font
• Foam dots
• Exacto Knife or cutting tool

Step 1: Cut your kraft paper to 4.5 x 6"

Step 2: Ink the edges of your kraft paper heavily with the brown ink using the blending tool. If you don't have a blending tool you can just rub the paper directly on the ink pad.

I rubbed the corners a bit thicker to give them the faux photo corner look.

Step 3: Lightly rub the blank ink along the edges to darken it slightly.

Step 4: Glue down your kraft paper onto your card. There should be a 1/4 inch edging of white visible.

Step 5: Print out "just a note" on a piece of 4x6 cardstock and then trim down to a 3x3" square.

Note: You can also use a stamp if you'd like.

Step 6: Draw black border on the "just a note" card. Underline the "a note" with 2 thick lines.

Step 7: Prior to glueing down your note square cut a small slit in the middle of the top line. This is where we'll put the push pin.

Step 8: Print out or stamp your push pin. Note: I happened to have a clear stamp that is a push pin so I used that. If you don't have a stamp or can't find an image to download and print you could also just use a piece of washi tape.

I stamped mine onto a piece of white cardstock and cut it out with my finger exacto knife.

Step 9: Put foam dots on the pin before inserting into your cut on the note square.

 

 

and you're done!

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Make a Card Monday: 1st Birthday Cupcake

My niece and goddaughter turns 1 this week and I had to find something cute and fun for this special birthday.

Naturally I went trolling through Pinterest looking for inspiration. Couldn't find anything that caught my fancy so I thought about checking the Silhouette Library for ideas and low and behold this cute cupcake strolled across the page.

Oh yeah, I knew this was the one. I dug around for some pink paper and saw this pink with rose gold polka dots. hmm.....maybe. eh, what the heck, let's give it a try.

I went out on a limb on this one...well for me it's a limb. I used rose gold and pink. I've never used this color scheme before but I thought I'd give it a try. It looked cute together. I used paper from the May Studio Calico kit so it matched well and I didn't have to try and find matching paper. That always helps and saves time.

Here's how I did it:

Supplies: (p.s. short and sweet)

• Pinkini Bazzill Cardstock
• Rose Gold Chipboard Letters (Studio Calico Kit)
• Pink and rose gold polka dot paper (Studio Calico Kit)
• Dark Pink Cardstock (bought this in a Michael's Recollections paper pack)
• Cupcake Silhouette die cut

Step 1: Sketch out design and figure out what colors will be in each spot. Also, you will need to resize the image so that it will fit into a 4-1/4" x 5-1/4" card.

Step 2: Cut out the full cupcake. I used the pinkini bazzill cardstock.

Step 3: Cut out base of the cupcake from your favorite patterned paper. This will be the cupcake base on the cover of your card.

You will need to erase the unwanted areas of the original die cut shape. To do this click on the eraser tool on the toolbar on the left-hand side of your screen.t looks like this:

On the right-hand will be two options: Solid and Outline. Choose outline.

Next, make sure to add a cut line from the left edge to the right edge (see below). This will ensure that the entire shape is cut out.

One last thing.

In order to cut the cover properly you will have to one of the following:

a. Flip the design horizontally in the Silhouette software (Object/Mirror/Flip Horizontally)

or

b. Flip your patterned paper over so the backside is facing up.

Once cut glue this piece to the front base of your card.

Step 5: Now cut out the candle. (dark pink cardstock) Follow the same steps as Step 4 except you are erasing everything but the candle.

After I cut this out and glued it down I added some pink polka dots with my pink marker.

Step 6: Cut out the flame from the rose gold patterned paper. Again, erase everything but the flame.

Step 7: Cut out a dark pink circle using your silhouette or in my case a 1" punch. Add any embellishment you'd like. I added polka dots as edging around the circle. (Repetition baby. Polka dot paper, polka dot candle and polka dot edging.)

Step 8: Add any additional embellishments you feel necessary. I used my own handwriting to add some swirls on the cupcake and added Happy Birthday. I also added the #1 Rose Gold Chipboard Number.

Opened up:

I ended up adding some light pink shading with a marker on the Happy Birthday just to give it a bit more definition.

I love how this card looks like it's on fire depending on what light you are in. Pretty cool eh? I didn't notice it really until I was trying to photograph the card for this post. I was moving it around and saw how it just "lit up" in the light.

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Jen

Make a Card Monday: Happy Birthday from R2D2

Welcome to Make a Card Monday! Thanks for stopping by! Today's card is a Happy Birthday R2D2 card. What's R2D2? Well, if you or anyone you know likes Star Wars they'll know exactly what this is. If you don't, just know it's a little robot that has a personality. He's cute and one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars franchise...okay I'm getting off on a tangent. I'll stop. Onward!

Today's card is one I've been wanting to do for awhile. Every time I think about doing it I don't because I need to do something else like Mother's day or Christmas or something. I decided to hell with it, I'm doing this card. So here it is.

Disclaimer: I should mention this isn't really my design. I saw a picture of it on pinterest and thought, "I could so do that." So I used that picture for the start of mine and just adapted it a bit to suit my own supplies and tastes. Here's the link.

I'm making this card for my brother's birthday (it's in March, yeah I know it's early but I've been itching to make this card. No time like the present.) I should probably mention that my brother is like 30 so he's a bit old for this BUT he's totally going to love it.

Quite frankly I could use this for one of my nephews too but my brother Chris is the Star Wars fanatic. Yep, fanatic. He has an entire Christmas tree with Star Wars ornaments. Yeah, that's right. AN ENTIRE TREE. LOL Okay, enough of that stuff. On to the card.

This card looks difficult but in reality it isn't. It's just a bunch of basic squares, circles and rectangles. Easy peasy. If you have punches or a die cutting machine you can easily do this card.

Here are the supplies:

• Black card (I'm using a 4.3 x 5.75" card)
• Patterned die cut of your choosing (I'm using Cathy Zielske's free honeycomb download.)
• 2 - 1.75" white cardstock squares
• 1 - 1.25" blue cardstock square
• 1 - 1" light blue/grayish cardstock square
• 1 - 2" blue circle
• 1 - 2" light blue circle
• 2 blue & 1 black small circle (I used a large hole punch)
• 2 light blue/grayish mini brads
• 1 barely blue mini brad (Lasting Impressions)
• 1 red gem (I'm using doodlebug)
• 1 white gem
• Wink of Luna Brush (paint brush)
• Star Jedi font (dafont.com)

This project has several steps to it. They aren't hard it's just a basic paper piecing so I'm going to show you in a couple different ways.

The first is this stop motion video I did of creating one of these cards. If you'd like to watch a video instead of reading or viewing pictoral instructions, here you go.

 

Here's the written version complete with pictures. May the force be with you as you complete this card.

1.  Assemble/Cut-out all of the pieces in the instructions.

2.  Assemble the head. You need to cut the blue circle in half. This will be the bottom part of R2's head.

3. Glue on the "now" half-moon blue piece to the light blue circle and attach to a white square.

 

4. Cut the other white Square in half. Then cut one of those halves in half. You should have 2 thinner rectangles. These will be the legs.

 
5. Now round the edges of the legs on one side. I used a creative memories corner rounder but you can use whatever you have on-hand.

6. Glue the legs on then trim off the excess.

7. Grab your small white square. Now we will be making the feet. To do this cut the square diagonally then cut that piece in half. Glue the 3 pieces onto your R2D2 body. 2 go on the legs and the 3rd goes in the middle. (R2D2 is like a tri-pod if that helps.)

8. Now we are going to make the blue lines on R2's chest. Using the 1.25" square cut it into strips. I didn't need the entire square for this. Cut in half then half again to get 4 pieces. Adjust the size as needed to fit on the body.

9. Now we are going to make the little blue piece underneath the blue strips and add the blue circles for buttons. 

Cut the light blue 1" square in half then into 2/3's. This should fit under the blue lines. If not trim with your scissors then glue down. Add blue circles inside light blue rectangle.

10. Next is the eye piece. Grab the 1" blue square, cut in half then half again. Now using your handy dandy scissors trim the edging to make a trapezoid. Glue down and add black circle for eye.

11. Adding other R2 buttons (gems and brads). Secure barely blue brads under the right bottom corner of the eye and the light blue brads on the bottom of the body slightly above the feet. (see picture)

12. Add red gem slightly to the right of the eye and the white gem slightly to the left of the barely blue brad.

13. Add white/metallic doodle to eyes and buttons to make it look more realistic. It gives it a little something extra. It makes it look 3-dimensional.

14. Glue honeycomb pattern to the front of your black card. Trim as necessary. Attach R2D2 on top.

15. Attach Happy Birthday Banner.

Make a Card Monday: Happy Birthday Flower Card

Welcome to another edition of Make a Card Monday! (If you haven't been here before you can click here to see all of the cards I've done so far. Cards.)

This week I needed to do a card for a very special friend of mine from college. It was her birthday.

I wanted to make a card that would fit her. I've found that if I just go through a person's pinterest page I can get awesome ideas for either making them something or buying them something. Their pinterest page is a reflection of what they like and who they are. It tells a story just like reading a book.

In this case I happened to see that she had a lot of chevron/diagonal patterns in her "my style" page and she had a beautiful picture of a flower (somewhat similar to the one in this card). I took that and ran with it and this is what I came up with.

Here's a quick tutorial on how I made this card. Please note that I try to link my products as best I can so that in case you like them you can find them easily. I'm not being paid by anyone to do this. I just like to give you options.

Also, I don't always use current products because I like to use up my stash instead of just buying new stuff all the time. So I don't always have a link to buy something because it might be discontinued now.

Don't lose heart though. The beauty of most of these cards is you can substitute patterns or colors with your own stash of products.

Okay, enough yapping, here we go!

The products:

• White Card -  I'm using a 5 x 6.5" card but you could certainly use a smaller one.
• 4" White Doilies - I just buy these from Michael's. They are cheap and easy to use.
• Pink Chevron Patterned paper - I'm using some American Crafts paper but you could use any pattern or color that you want.
• Pink gems - from Martha Stewart. You could also use stickers, buttons, etc. Any type of embellishment would work.
• White and Gray Pearls - Doodlebug - you could also use gems if you like.
• Staz-on Jet Black Ink - used for Happy Birthday Stamp
• Happy Birthday Stamp - I can't find the packaging for this so I'm not sure which brand/manufacturer. Sorry about that. You could use your own handwriting, a sticker, another stamp that you like. This is completely open.
• Adhesive of your choice. I used Scotch glue for the doilies. It's a clear-drying glue and has two different sized applicators for big or small application.
• A favorite picture. I used a flower but you could really use anything. I found one that has

1. Find and print out a favorite flower picture. (Really you could use any picture you like.)

Specifically I found one that had some space that I could put the title without taking away from the picture.

On the left-hand side I specifically blurred the background when I took the picture because it puts more emphasis on the flower on the right. This turned out to be the perfect picture for this card project.

When I printed it I gave it a white border because it really made the picture pop off the page more.

2. Cut your piece of patterned paper 2.5 x 6.5 inches. Glue down onto the landscape .

3. Grab two paper doilies and figure out where you'd like to put them. Then lay down your picture and move around as necessary.

I liked having them in opposite corners. It seemed to give the card a little something extra.

Once glued down cut off the excess doily.

Note: I glue directly in the middle of the doily and usually in the little circles on the edges but that's it. That should be enough glue to keep them down.

4.  Next step is to add some embellishments at the corners with the doilies. I chose gems and pearls because they fit nicely with the flower and the doilies. I wanted something sparkly yet elegant and those items fit the bill.

If you were doing a boys card you could make it much more masculine with stars or metal instead of pink and gray.

I like how the embellishments frame the picture as the doilies also do. There's just more texture and interest.

 

5. Next add your happy birthday sentiment. There are several options you could do. Pick whichever option you'd like. Honestly for me it depends on the time I have. If I have more time I'll maybe do a cut-out or find a type I like on the picture.

• a stamp
• your handwriting
• a sticker
• letter stickers
• type on the picture before you print it
• a die cut
• a silhouette cut out

I used a stamp because I liked how it fit in that section. Note: I use staz-on because it dries quickly and has a nice dark black color.

Walahh you are done. That's all folks. Easy peezy. You've got yourself an elegant birthday card.

The beauty of this card is that you could really use this design to make several different cards. It could be a fun young boy card, a thinking of you card, a just a note card. The possibilities are endless.

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Make a Card Monday: Rainbow Heart Balloons

Hello!

Another edition of "Make a Card Monday"

This week I've got a simple, colorful and all-around card. Heart balloons! You can use it for a variety of things: Happy Birthday, Hello, Thinking of you, etc. Plus it's just plain cute and who doesn't love cute? I know I do.

So let's get started.

Here's what you're going to need:

• White cards (I'm using 4.3 x 5.75 inch cards)
• Patterned paper of your choosing (I'm using a light gray vertical stripe, a light gray floral, a light pink polka dot and a black typed paper)
• Rainbow cardstock (red, orange, yellow, light blue, dark blue, green and purple) - although you can choose any colors you want really. You could do 7 hues of red if you'd like...hey that's not a bad idea for Valentine's day.
• Sentiment (I'm using happy birthday and hello. You can use stickers, stamps, handwriting or computer text, whichever is your preference)
• Red line tape (or adhesive of your choosing)
• Heart punch (or die cuts or stickers...again, whatever you like to do. Notice a pattern here? This is all about using what supplies you have on hand)
• String/twine (I used this cute red-striped twine)

1. Cut out your patterned paper slightly smaller than your card. So in my case I used a 4.3 x 5.75 card so I cut my patterned paper at 4 x 5.25 inches. Adhere to your card.

2. Punch out your hearts.

3. Cut 3 pieces of twine all the same length.

4. Adhere a piece of red line tape to the card where you think you want your balloon strings to go. I just eyeballed it.

You could also measure it out if you like. I would suggest the middle of the page so around 2.125 inches from the left or right side of the card.

Put a piece of string on the left edge and right edge of the tape. Then put your remaining piece in the middle.

By doing this you make sure that the edge of the tape is covered up and won't be sticking to anything else, like your envelope and causing all sorts of messes when you try to pull the card out of the envelope.

Notice that I left some extra at the top and bottom. I like to do that just in case I measured wrong or if the ends are a bit straggly. I can always cut it down. It's harder to add more than it is to cut off excess.

5. Now it's time to put the hearts on. Here we go.

I slightly folded some of my hearts before adhering to give it a slightly 3-dimensional look. You don't have to do this but I like how it makes the card pop.

Just bend the cardstock slightly with your fingers.

6. Add your title on the front page or on the interior page and you're done!

I did a couple of different versions of this card...quite frankly it was because I didn't have enough of the light gray striped patterned paper but hey I ended up liking all of them. Plus I'm using up some of my scrap stash which is always good.

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Make a Card Monday: Get Well Soon w/Band-aids

Make a Card Monday - Get Well Soon Card

Pretty simple card but lots of fun...is that bad to say about a "Get Well Soon" Card? That it's fun?

Being sick isn't fun but in my mind I want to brighten their day. Send them something that says, "Hey, I'm thinking about you. Hope you get better."

Here's what you're going to need for this fun card.

 

• White card (I'm using a 5 x 6.5" card but you could go smaller if you wanted. You could also do a cream color if you like.)
• Flesh-colored cardstock
• Warm Brown Cardstock
• Foam Squares/Dots
• Silhouette or other cutting software
• Band-aid Die cut
• Computer (for font - you could use letter stickers or stamps as well)

1. I started by Printing off the "Get Well Soon" on the card. I made sure there was space between Get and Well AND Well and Soon for the band-aids.

Here's what this will look like with the band-aids in between.

2. Cut out your Band-aid die cuts. The dark brown is the background, the flesh is for the main part of the band-aid and the rectangle middle piece.

3. Glue down your brown piece.

4. Glue down your flesh piece.

5. Glue down the rectangle piece using a foam square. I like it being raised up because it looks more like a real band-aid and it adds some dimension. A real band-aid has that white pad there that soaks up the blood (if you want to get gross. :) Sorry, old farm kid. This stuff doesn't phase me.)

Here's what it looks like from the top. It just gives it some dimension.

Easy peasy lemon-squeezy. :)

I hope you like this card. It's easy to make and it was quick. Any questions on this project please leave a comment. If you'd like to see more cards click here.

Make a Card Monday: Father's Day

Father's day is drawing near and that means a Father's day card.

I never really know if my Dad appreciates getting a card from all of us or not, but I'm still making one. Cuz he's my Dad and it's the right thing to do.

This year's card is all about the 'stache. Dad has had his 'stache since I was born. So it's been quite awhile. I'll just say over 3 decades and leave it at that.

I figured I might as well draw attention to it for once since the mustache is so popular lately.

So here we go. The Father's day mustache card.

Here's what you're going to need:

• White card (I'm using 5 x 6.5" card)
• Black cardstock
• Removable glue
• Red hearts (cardstock or stickers)
• Mustache die cut or sticker
• Computer, Printer (or letter stickers or stamps)

1. I decided instead of using stickers or stamps that I would print out my title onto my card. To do this you need to run a test on some scratch paper.

I broke out my handy dandy ruler to measure where I wanted to put my title on my card then set up the grid lines in Photoshop so I knew where to put my titles.

I used 3 text boxes and wrote my title words in them. a. Happy b. Father's and c. Day. I'm using the Rockwell font in different sizes.

p.s. You can see above that it took a couple tries for me to get it right. No worries. It's scratch paper and I'm not perfect.

2. Lightly glue down your card to the sheet of scratch paper. I used EZ repositional dots to glue down the edges of the card.

3. Once it prints out take the card off the paper and use your glue remover (your finger works too) and rub off the glue. Easy peasy.

4. Now because I felt like it needed something, I took two pens of different sizes and drew a large and small border slightly off the edge of the paper.

You could use a ruler too if you want it perfect. I didn't so I just free-handed it.

It makes it a bit fancier I think.

5. Next you want to add your mustache. I'm using a download I bought from Silhouette. You get 6 different types of mustaches. I used the one that most looks like my Dad's.

I made my mustache a little bigger than my type. I wanted the title to look like it was under the mustache not extended beyond.

6. Add your heart and you are done. (I used a Martha Stewart punch).

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Have a great day!

Make a Card Monday: Graduation Cap

Another edition of Make a Card Monday!

Today I'm focusing on the Graduation season. High School grads, mostly because I've already got invites to 2 parties, but hey you could use it for a Prep school, College, or Master's program graduation.

It's an all-around card like a gymnast being able to do the Bars, Beam, Vault and Floor. It can accomplish it all.

I got the idea for this card from Cathy Zielske. She posted a freebie of this silhouette grad cap cut out and I KNEW I had to use it. She gives out the most unbelievable freebies. I think I've downloaded them all, even if I haven't used them all.

She is great at the beautifully simplistic designs. She's impeccable. (and no, she isn't paying me to say this. I just really like her design aesthetic and love to give others credit for their talent.)

Okay so let's get started. Here's what you're gonna need: (yes I know gonna isn't really a word but I like to write like I speak instead of like I'm writing a book. Case in point, you would never use like that many times in a sentence and I sound like a high school girl. like this. like that. k I digress)

Supplies:

• 12x12 white cardstock
• 8 1/2 x 11 colored cardstock
• 8 1/2 x 11 black cardstock
• foam dots
• pen of your choice
• grad cap die cut

Note: I used my silhouette machine to cut out my grad caps, card and envelope. You don't necessarily need a silhouette machine to make this. You could use a die cut of a grad cap and an existing card and envelope. I just went a little fancier this time cuz I was in the mood.

Here it is. The lovely card. I decided on green for the background because the two invites I've received are to Faribault School and the falcons are green.

1. Cut out your card and envelope. Note: The 5" square card has a perforated center for easier folding.

2. Print, stamp or type your front cover message. I went with "You Did It!" because that seemed an all-around message.  You could also go with "You Rock!" "Congratulations" "Good Job" "Well Done"...

In case you were wondering I used the Bebas font, size 36 on my card. I used the silhouette sketch pens to get the design on my card.

3. Cut out your grad caps or pull out your graduation die cuts.

Aren't these cute? Seriously. Totally cute. I think it's the slightly rounded edges. It makes the caps seem less rigid and more fun. Kind of like adding booze to your favorite silent relative. It just kicks things up a notch. (p.s. I don't do that I'm just using it as a metaphor.)

Note: Cathy's images are much less smaller than mine. I wanted to go with "bigger is better" in this instance so I enlarged mine to the dimensions above. They aren't a specific size like 1.75 x 2.5 or anything because sometimes I just like to eyeball it.

4. Use foam dots to raise up your caps. (pun intended) Just eyeball it or get out your ruler, depending on your personality and the amount of time you have.

I don't have any black foam dots at this point so to kind of hide the fact that these white squares kind of seem visible I did this:

Just sharpie'd in the edging so they didn't stand out. (and yes that isn't a word either.)

Notice.

You see nothing.

Perfect.

Nothing from this angle either. Phew. Cuz a high school graduate is going to care.

5. Add your inside message and money, because let's face it, kids only have grad parties for a couple reasons.

Chief among those reasons are the desire to get your money. They don't really want to stand around and have to talk to people they don't know. They just want your money and free food and depending on where you live, the "party" afterwards. That party may or may not involve a keg of root beer or actual beer. Again, depending on where you live and how your parents feel about that sort of thing.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

I'm pretty simple so they get "Congratulations" and some moolah.

Easy peezy lemon squeezy.

Hope you liked this Monday's card. I made a handful of die cuts so when I get the next invite I just have to pick out the school color from my cardstock and cut out my card.

If you like this post check out my blog on Mondays for the next edition of "Make a Card Monday". Also, see past posts here.

Make a Card Monday: Wedding - Meeting of Hearts

Spring is in the air and with spring comes the Wedding season. In fact I've got 1 for sure that already have an invite for.

I thought this week would be perfect to get a jump start on the wedding cards. (I want to be ahead of the game not scrambling to make one the morning of.)

Here's the full card. It's very simple yet I like to think elegant at the same time.

The basic ingredients:

• White card (I'm using 5"x6.5")
• White cardstock (rectangle approximately 3" x 5")
• 2 white cardstock hearts
• 1 black cardstock heart
• Large heart punch
• Pearls or gems (Mine are K&CO which I don't think you can buy anymore)
• Black cardstock (small amount for the bow tie)
• Black staz-on ink
• Letter stamps (old hero arts wood-mounted)
• 6" of ribbon - white or pearl
• Gray Le Pen
• Glue of your choice (I used e-z runner for the cardstock and red-tape for the ribbon.)
• Pop/Foam dots

I'd say this card took me maybe 15 minutes. I probably spent more time finding my tools than making this card.

1.  Cut out  your white cardstock rectangle. Center and adhere to the front of the card.

2.  Using Gray marker draw a line around the rectangle. Stay close to the edge of the cardstock. Then draw your second line about an 1/8th of an inch away from your first line. I added this as I wanted more definition. There seemed to be way too much white going on.

3.  Punch out your hearts (or use a silhouette or other cutting devise if you don't have a punch.)

4.  Cut down the center of your black heart stopping about 1/4" from the bottom.

5.  Next to your cut fold over part of the heart. You are making the lapels. You don't need to be precise with your fold just whatever looks good to you. Plus you are dealing with a small piece of cardstock it'll be hard to put a measurement to it.

6.  Fold over the other side of the heart and your lapels are done.

7.  Glue your black heart onto a white heart. This is your white button down shirt.

8. Make bowtie.

9.  Attach the bow tie you've cut and marker in the buttons.

10.  Put pearls or gems on your white heart.

11.  Place your two hearts down and figure out how you like it then glue down the black heart. (I like a little of it to fall off the edge but that's just my preference.)

12.  Place foam dots/pop dots on the back of your bride heart and glue down on page. The purpose of putting pop dots on your heart is to give it a shadow and make it stand out some from the white background behind it.

13.  Glue down your ribbon above and below your hearts.

14.  Stamp "Congratulations!"

I like to do a test run first so that I know how closely I need to align the stamps. As you can see below I drew a vertical line on a scratch piece of paper. This showed me how much room I had.

Next I wrote out congratulations and counted the letters which enabled me to see that the U was the middle letter.

I then started in the middle of my cardstock with the U. I stamped out the remainder of congratulations working my way toward the end (ulations) and then working from the middle to the front. (targnoc).

This enabled me to get it centered on the page.

After the test run I was good to go so I stamped out "Congratulations!" on the card.

15.  Write whatever message you would like in the inside of the card.

Done.

 

Make a Card Monday: Happy Mother's Day!

This week's Make a Card Monday is all about celebrating Mom so I've made a Mother's Day Card.

What mother's day would be complete without some flowers and since my mother loves blue here's is designed around a blue flower pot.

I've got to admit...this card was a last minute thing. I totally forgot about making one. Totally and completely. Whoops but it's okay. I just went online, tooled around for some ideas on pinterest, found one and went to town.

I made this card in about 20 minutes flat. Not kidding. I had a distinct timeline...or I was going to be late. I ask you which is worse? Being late to your mother's on Mother's Day or forgetting to bring your Mom a card on Mother's Day?

I know...it's a toss up.

Supplies:

• Blue gingham patterned paper
• Blue cardstock
• Yellow cardstock
• Green-flowered patterned paper
• Green leaves
• Yellow buttons
• Blue ribbon
• Glue
• Pop dots/foam dots

1.  For the pot: Cut a 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 piece of patterned paper (you can use any color you like). Then make some diagonal cuts from the top to the bottom to angle the pot.

2.  Cut a rectangle piece of blue paper to go across the top of the pot base. Mine was about 3 1/2 inches wide by an inch or so tall. Glue down to card.

3. Add your ribbon. Cut along the sides of the top of your pot and slide the ribbon through.

I like to make mine a little wider than my ribbon. It makes it easier to go through the slit.

Once you go through the slit just tie your ribbon in a nice knot.

You'll be able to see it through on the other side but it's not really that distracting or ugly. You could always cover it up with paper if you don't like the look of it.

4. Use your favorite flower punch or die cut and punch out 5 yellow and 5 green flowers.
(I used yellow because I thought it matched nicely with the cornflower blue.) Grab 3 buttons for the center of your flowers.

5. Glue the yellow flower on top of the green flower. I offset it so you could see the green behind the yellow flower. It looks sort of like leaves.

6. Lay out two of those flowers on the left and right overlapping the top of the pot.

7. Put a foam dot on one flower and place between in the middle between the two flowers you just glued down. Add a button with your favorite adhesive. I use glue dots.

8. Do the same thing with the remaining 2 flowers above flower #3. Notice how it looks like a triangle.

9. Add a couple of leaves out of the sides just for more dimension and color or as a space filler if you find you needed some. (I kind of did here.)

You can stamp Happy Mother's day either on the inside or the outside. I wanted to fill the inside and not add any letters to my pot so that's where I added mine.

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