Printed Happy Birthday Unisex Leaf Cards Autumn/Fall

Good afternoon! We started our Thanksgiving shopping yesterday and will finish off out list in the next few days with the perishables. How are you all doing with it? Last year we had a big one with friends and it was a nightmare. By the end of the night we were about to pass out from all of the cooking. This year we're a little smarter and will do a much smaller one and make sure to start preparing much earlier. :)

Autumn cards are quickly being retired for the season, but I got in at least these 2 before it becomes completely weird to hand out! :D Here are 2 cards that you can give to both men and women alike!  I was inspired by a Hero Arts card that I saw on a Pinterest board. The gold leaf is a vellum sticker whereas the maple leaf (Thanks Laine for the stamp set!) was stamped and then wet embossed with glitter embossing powder. You can compare the appearance of the two against the same background. 

Eyelets sit in a row on the upper left corner of the center frame. Flourishes were stamped with white ink for a DIY pattern paper. Inside square with "Happy Birthday" in brown was printed with a photo printer. Leaves were centered on top of yellow vellum paper. 

You can see how the maple leaf interacts with different light angles. It really is an explosion of iridescent colors. 

 Have a sweet, short week!

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Greatest Dad Wooden Star Card Father's Day

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How did father's day go this year? Midnight is closing in quickly and I wanted to get in one last card that I made last night. 

This Dad card features a wooden star that I painted and then covered in Mod Podge Dimensional Magic. Do you see the way it shines? It also gives it more strength...as if I needed more for a piece of wood on a card. lol

This is "Wishing you a Happy Father's Day!" in Chinese. Did you know that you read this from right to left, top to bottom? It's the complete opposite of English sentence layouts. We open a book by flipping pages to the left, but Chinese books are opened from left to right (in other words, the cover is where the back normally is for American books). I am told that Hebrew follows the same rules for opening a book, is this correct? 

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Another week coming up! 

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Feel Better Soon Quilled Yellow Flowers Handmade Card

Hope you're having a great evening!

I made an uplifting card that can be given to those who aren't feeling their best. A little love and care can go a long way in helping someone along a speedy recovery.

This card features 2 yellow quilled flowers. The centers were made with green and yellow quilling paper and dotted with metallic gold paint. Leaves are a turquoise-colored paper.

 "Feel better soon" sentiment was wet embossed on heavy card stock.

Flourishes are rub-on stickers and are dotted with glitter in select areas.

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Have a great night!

Happy Anniversary Card, Quilled Balloons

Sometimes it's so hard to find a masculine card when you need one. I tried to make an anniversary card that someone can give to their husband or a friend can give to a lovely couple who is celebrating their anniversary. I like that the balloons are simple to quill. They also look fun enough to use for birthday cards.

The balloons theme is from 365 Cards Day 27.

Get Well Soon Card -- Green and Gold

Firstly, I want to thank everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes! I couldn't have asked for more this year!

Now...in sadder news, I've been hearing that a few people my friends know aren't doing so well. 

This is a Get Well Soon card that my friend asked me to make to give to her friend. I hope that when he wakes up, he will be greeted with a lot of love. Wishing everyone all the best.

This is the interior.

I made this card based on the sketch from clean&simple.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Quilled Shamrock

Hope your day is super lucky!

I quilled this shamrock using 2 different shades of green. It is small, just over an inch! Each leaf is made up of 2 different sized hearts!

Happy New Year All!

Suddenly a cold front hit us and it dropped from 50s to 20s. Crazy!

Hope you're all making good progress on your new year's resolutions so far. I am trying my best!

This is a holiday card...yes, I am always behind.

I think I like quilling. It's cheap to do, requires minimal materials, and your imagination is your limit to your creations! It is probably the most time consuming when you compare it to other types of card making styles though. Despite that, I feel the most accomplished and fulfilled after making quilled cards. Hope you will enjoy this snowflake design!

First Attempt at Banner Card

Making this card felt like making 3 cards! Once you have the idea down, it's a breeze though since you're just duplicating everything however many times you need it. I was thinking I'd play around with textures and applied flock to the letters, but in hindsight I feel that the color withdrew from it. I winded up choosing a brighter ribbon to go on top. Also, I originally used the same background color, but I stupidly measured the incorrect size and ran out of the color! I admit, this one in the picture is not as nice as I would have liked it to be but I won't lie, I was TIIIIRED of playing with it and gave up. I'm not proud of that, but this is the best that I can do with the time that I have.

Why do I care about time you might wonder? Well we are MOVING once AGAIN! This time we're moving to Astoria which is in Queens. I have got to say that I am not looking forward to this process. Wish me luck!

Wedding Invite Proposal # 2

This is a much simpler design. From this one, please ignore the parts of the card where the white fibers of the core are exposed through the cracks. My main intention was to offer a sample and so I used whatever I had laying around to get the idea across.

As you can see, I used the same charm as seen in the previous design. The other thing you might notice is that I wrapped it with two different ribbons.

Now in the interior, it unfolds to 3 different panels. I ran the double ribbons behind the frames of the text. All of the text was computer designed.

Lastly, the bottom panel is for the RSVP--intended to be ripped off so guests can return it by mail. This aspect can be turned into a post card (where you write the addresses on the other side) or you can include a return envelope, which is not shown here. Ideally, it would be perforated, but I do not have that tool in my collection and if it was chosen I would do so. Instead, I have just cut off most of the part to indicate the purpose.

Have a great weekend!

A Thank You to My Brother

Today marks the 50th card that I made! Yay!!!

This card is currently on its way to my brother in Astoria, Queens, NY. I tried to make it very boyish with stars and the toned down colors. I bought braiding cords from Walmart and had these confetti stars left over from a party many years ago. This picture really doesn't do justice for the shiny-ness of the stars.

Supplies:
-Braiding cords or any type of twine
-Cardstock
-Stars
-Glue
-Rub-on sticker
-White pigment ink (for the edges of the papers)
-Patterned paper

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Very Versatile Thank You + Free Digi Stamp

Last Wednesday, we went to see the circus in Coney Island. We were 6 rows from the front in the already small arena in Coney Island. It was a great show for the $10 that we paid. My parents loved it and we've never seen animals so obedient. People say that they mistreat their animals, but we didn't notice any signs of that. Though they used a whip on the floor, they never harmed the animals. Here is the only picture I took there when they allowed cameras.

The card that I want to talk about today is very versatile--it is mature, unisex, and can be used for a variety of occasions. The first 2 photos show how it changes under different light and the last photo is what I did to the interior.

For the front:
-Double-sided adhesive tape (heat safe)
-Stickopotamus vellum stickers of leaves
-1.25" square of white card stock
-1.50" square of designer card stock
-Green pigment ink to ink all the corners
-Designer card stock
-White card stock for the card base (will stand 6"x4")
-Tape runner adhesive

For the inside:
-"Thank you" stamp
-Perfect pearls in green
-brush
-Watermark ink
-Green and white colored paper
-Border punch of your choice

If you'd like me to send you the digi stamp (he is about 1.5"x 2" if you don't adjust the image), please post a comment in the comments section of this blog post only. I will not spam you. Please allow 24 hours for me to get it to you.