For my sis

For sister's birthday, I wanted to make a card for her with a handbag theme, however what I ended up making is better that I had dreamt. I made a bag in the shape of a hand bag and a mini card to go with with the left over papers I had from the bag. I had seen the bag in a number of places but I ended up making it with the assistance of Leanne Dixon (my SU up line and friend) and a number of blogs where I found photos of it including Makeesha Byl (need to scroll a bit to get to the handbag photo) . With their assistance I managed to get it done. So here is the end result .......

What I did:
For the Handbag:

1. I got the instructions on how to construct the bag from Leanne.


2. I used SU Pink Pirouette card stock for the bag. I cut a piece of pink card stock for the handle from the SU Simple Scrappin' Petal Party Exclusive Scrapbooking Kit.


3. Once done I decided to use similar dimensions of the bag and cut 2 pieces to cover the front and bag of the bag from the SU Raspberry Tart Design Paper (DP) pack.


4. For the buckles I used a 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch and the Scallop circle punch of various card stocks and DPs from the packs above.


5. Once assembled, I punched a small hole through all of them and used a Clear Crystal Studs (from mixit) to hold it together.


6. I used the same studs for the handles.
   

For the Card:

1. The card is small because I didn't want it to overshadow the bag, so I used some left over SU Pink Pirouette card stock.


2. The card dimensions are 2" by 6 1/4" (fold in half). I used the the left over Raspberry Tart DP that I cut from the front panels for the card embellishment.


3. I stamped the Happy Birthday message at the front.


4. Use a left over pink ribbon and tied it up to finish it off.
   

And voila!

Anamaria

Birthday Card - Girl Origami Dress

Some months ago I made a birthday card for my niece with an origami dress at the front. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it. It was so cute, that I decided to make a similar card for my friend's daughter birthday. I have a few origami dresses designs but I used the one that looks more like a girls dress.



What I did:

1. I cut a piece of paper into a 6" square.


2. Following the instructions in an origami site I made the dress.


3. I cut the A4 size SU! Pink card stock in half for the card for a standard card size.


4. Then using my Fiskars border scallop punch I punch the right hand side.


5. Then I cut a 1" piece of purple card stock and stand this underneath the scallope.


6. Using a left over piece of purple I punch the large oval punch to mat the oval above, and paste it on the side.


7. I used white ribbon around the card next to the scallop starting and finishing on the front so the inside of the card is neat.


8. Once the ribbon is in place, I stack 4 pink half pink pearls on the top sections of the ribbon.


9. Then using double sided tape I placed the dress in the card.


10. Then using a whilte gel pen put some white faux stitches on the exposed purple card.


11. Finally I used a pink sitcker that said Happy Birthday below the dress.

As soon as I have done the other one I may add a link here to it.

Anamaria

Happy Birthday to you

My brother-in-law best friends birthday was today, and we were invited to celebrate with him. So in the spirit of my new years resolution, I made a card for him. I wasn't sure where to begin, but the end result was not bad (at least I think!!!)

What I did:

1. I use a white card for the base. In my scraps box I had some pieces left of card stock and SU! designer paper that I had used in previous cards. So I used a piece of blue card stock and put in on the left had size.


2. I used a piece of green card stock cut it to fit within the card, used my swirly background stamp with brown ink. Then, I used the ink pad around the edge to give it more dimension.


3. Punched 3 x 1 1/4" circles and 3 x 1 3/8" circles of a piece designer paper that matched the green on the card stock and the reverse had the brown strips that matched the ink pad I used earlier. 2 of the small circles I used the green side and stack that on the brown side of the large circle. Then on the other set I did the reverse. Then I stuck all 3 in a row on top of the green card stock.


4. On top of the green card, I put a brown ribbon and tied it up on the edge as that section looked a little plain.


5. I used the word tag and punch it on white card stock, wrote the Happy Birthday message on it and use the brown ink pad around it for dimension. Unfortunately my finger got on the way and I left a finger print. My husband thought it looked good, so I duplicated the mistake and I "fixed" the rest of the tag to have the same effect. A very lucky mistake as the end result looked good.

Anamaria

Happy Birthday Tia

I made this card for Aunt today. I love making these cards because I get to use the left overs that I have of papers that I have used in the past. My stash of little papers grows every day now that I'm committed to making all of the cards I give away.



What I used: I white standard card that I trimmed to measure folded 4" x 5". then I used purple paper that I cut into a rectangle (I think it measured 4" x 3.5") and rounded 2 corners. then I used a pick card (again I think this is 3" x 3"). I used a strip a lovely shiny pink paper that I cut into a 1" strip and cut 3 squares. One of these I matted with the same purple and put in the centre of the pink and for a better effect and used dimensionals on all 3 squares. Then I lined with stitching around the purple paper. I then used the same gel pen and wrote the message on it and cut it with my small oval punch and matted this with shiny pink using the large oval punch, placed a pink button in on the side, put dimensionals on it and attached it to the corner.



Again a card that turned up quite nice. And here is the end result!!!

Anamaria

Birthday Card for one of my fans

I made this card for a work collegue who believes that my cards are wonderful. I was so happy with her reaction when I gave her the card. In addition I was very please with the results.

What I used: I used my scallop circle to make the large flowers and used my white gel pen to put dots around the scallops. Then I put them together and used stickers to spell the message. Then on the right hand side I matted the mini card that I created with some paper, 3 flowers and ribbon.

The following photo is a detail of the heading.

Not bad!
Anamaria

Birthday Card for 5th Birthday Party

This card is a combination of things that I had a what to do with them. I had bought my daughter a pack of flower templates to do some craft and when i was tiding up my craft area I found them. I decided to use this one for my daughter's friend 5th birthday.

What I did: I used 2 of the flower templates to create the card. I scored the back one at about 2" from the edge to create a hinge so that I could stand the card. Then, I used some paper to create the various petals. I created a version of each and cut them a about 1/8" smaller all around to give that border to each item. Then I pasted each item. In the area where the petals joined the leaves instead of cutting and leaving a border, I put a ribbon around it. To the ribbon I attached with fibre a little 1" tag. In her I just wrote 5th.

I really liked the result. It turned up much better than I had anticipated.

Birthday Card - Red Origami Dress

I made this card to my friend and boss on her birthday. The dress represents this lovely red dress that she wears from time to time. So when her birthday came up, I couldn't help but make it to for her.

How I made it - A4 folded in half. I made the dress following origami directions that I downloaded from the internet. Unfortunaly I can't remember where I got the directions, but as soon as I find them or the site I will post them here. Then I added a cream thin ribbon around the card and a gold Happy Birthday sticker on the corner.

I was very pleased with this, although I think next time I will use a thiner paper as it was getting quite hard to fold the dress towards the end. This is just one of a few cards I made with origami dresses on the front. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of those. But I'm sure I may be doing another of those soon and so I get one then.

A birthday card for a friend

This card I made for a close friend of ours on his 40th.

I used a standard card size and then added 6 squares (2 of each colour), then overlapped on top a spotted vellum and on top I put a gold Happy Birthday sticket.

I was really happy with the result.

I will post a couple of other cards soon that I have made lately.

Anamaria