Quilt Cards

Wow, I don't remember the last time I made a card with no coloring on it, much less posted a card with no coloring. I know it has been a very long time! We have a friend that will be celebrating her 70th birthday this weekend. Judy, Samantha and Jenna will be making her dinner and I will be making her a German Chocolate Cake. That cake happens to be my Grandmother's specialty so I have never made one before. Kip so valiantly offered to be the taste tester and suggested that I make a practice one today. I have been baking long enough to be confident that it will turn out the way I want it so he will have to wait until the party to taste my cake. 

Our birthday girl is an avid quilter. I knew I wanted to make her a set of notecards and that they had to be quilting related. Clear Dollar Stamps has a designer die set called Build a Quilt, and there is a coordinating stamps set to go with it. When I saw this set, I knew it would be perfect for this gift set. There are only 7 patterns here, but I have made a set of twelve cards, but I duplicated some of the designs. I am not sure how I am going to package them yet, I have a couple of ideas in mind and I will post a picture of that when I get that part completed. 

Here are the rest of the notecard designs in my gift set:

I am also entering this in the Clear Dollar Stamps Clearly Inspired Challenge.

Thank You card set

A friend asked me to make her a set of Thank You cards. She wanted them fairly plain, no embellishments, with the Asian symbols for thank you and in black and white.  This is what I came up with. I added the third color, because it was just a little too plain! Although my friend said that I could just stamp it onto white paper and then glue that to a black piece of paper. The writing was embossed with black embossing powder and then I just layered black, red and white papers that I got from Hobby Lobby. All in all, a very simple set of cards to make, especially since I was doing a set of ten of them. My friend liked them very much! Thanks for visiting tonight!

Summery Notecard Box

This is the other notecard box and card set that I made. I decided to go with a bright summer theme with this set. I made eight cards in each set and this set had two different designs. The sentiments are mixed, I included some birthdays, some say thank you and some say thinking of you. The stamps are from the Everyday Blessings set from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the flower in the orange ink and then went around the edges of the stamp with a pink ink pad and then stamped it onto the paper. I forget the name of that technique, I think it is called Rock and Roll or something like that. The box is the same one that I made for yesterday's post with the scalloped lid, but the top of this one is decorated.
Papers are from DCWV, stamp set is from Papertrey Ink, inks are from CTMH and the scallops and circles are punched with Marvy punches.

Notecard boxes

I had someone ask me if I could make them some notecard sets. Just general sets that would be suitable for gift giving. Sure I can! Even better, she had no color scheme that she wanted or anything in particular, she just wanted coordinating sets. It was also my choice if I wanted to do each set exactly the same design or if I wanted to mix them up. This is one set that I made. I used Papertrey Ink's Borders and Corners Monogram Edition set. This is one set that I made all the cards the same. The cards can be used individually as wedding cards to give or the entire set can be given to the bride and groom. You can add a gift card to the decorations on top of the box or on the inside and the  newly married couple has some handmade thank you cards ready to go. If I make this and know the wedding colors, I will coordinate the cards and box to match. The cards use DCWV card stock, the  Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, CTMH inks and American Crafts ribbon. Here is the box that was made with the same papers as the cards. I haven't decided how I want to decorate the top yet, or if I just want to add a big bow.  
I will show you another box and card set tomorrow. It's a lot different than this one! I love making boxes and things now. All thanks to my Scor-Pal! I couldn't believe what a difference having that made in my projects. Now when I make boxes and things they actually get given away instead of ending up in the trash. If you are on the fence about this one, go for it. It's one of those purchases that was worth every penny and I use it almost every single day.

The box template came from Splitcoaststampers. It is in the resource section under A2 Card Box. Thanks for stopping by and visiting!