Baby Shower

I made this card for my girlfriend for her baby shower over 9 months ago. This is one of these cards that I made with some papers and cardstock that I bought before I became a Stampin Up demostrator. However I did use my Stampin Up Scallop punch, which is one of my favorites.


I was at my girlfriend's house a few months ago and managed to get a photo of it.

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

Baby Card

One of my close friends had her baby yesterday and today the kids and I went to visit her and the baby at the hospital. I made last night a card for the baby, but again in the excitement of finishing it and getting the rest of the present sorted out I forgot to take a picture. However I do plan to go back and visit again and hopefully take a quick picture of the card.

In any case before making the actual card, I decided that I wanted to check that what I had in mind would work or not. So here is the trial card I made .......

I bought a pack card templates some time ago for the kids to do crafts with me. I have a pack of flowers, sea animals and some Easter templates too. This time I chose the sea animals which contained a whale, a dolphin, a crab, a fish and a seahorse months ago. You can use these template for anything, so I have been waiting for the opportunity to use one of these again (I used another template set with flowers that I have some months ago). I chose to use for the seahorse template for the trial.

What I did for the trial:

1. I cut the paper into squares of 2".


2. Since the paper had lines a didn't what them all go in the same direction, so I made the point of rotating the paper when ever I cut a strip to cut my squares. Then I pasted each square on top of the seahorse.


3. Once the template was covered and dried, I used a utility knife to cut out the excess.


4. Then I used a green gel pen and went around each square creating some faux stitching.


5. To finish it off a put goggle eye.

It looked really good, so then I decided to create the card for my friend.

The same as above, but I chose the whale template instead. Once I had the paper piecing done and the faux stitching finished, I decided to create the illusion of the whale blowhole. So here is how I managed to do that.





What I did for the final card:

1. I cut 3 pieces of wire in different colours and attach to the letters B O & Y
2. Then I used my oval punch and 1/2" circle punch to create the message "It's a ... " for the effect of bubbles.
3. Then I used a 1/4" circle punch to create little bubbles that I stack on to the wire with glue dots.

The effect was great and the card looked fantastic.

Anamaria

For You Cards

I made this card for my mother-in-law and stepmother-in-law to accompany a scarf that my mum made for them. The cards were the same and they looked fantastic. I used some of the Stampin Up papers that I bought (I think they are from the Mini Catalogue). The cards looked fantastic (see for yourselves!!!). The colours are vibrant and as per all Stampin Up papers complement each other really well.

What I did: I used a pre-made white card that I trimmed a little. Then I chose 4 of the Stampin Up papers and cut squares of 1 1/2" each. The I glued them in mosaic format. I put a black ribbon though them joining in at the front (i put tape at the front to hold it in place). I used my large oval punch on one the Stampin Up papers again. They I use my new scallop oval punch on black card stock. Used my white gel pen and wrote the message with faux stitching and because I couldn't read it very well, I used a black marker and put dots on top.

The end result! Another card that I'm proud off.

Anamaria

PS. This is the first time that I have used the Stampin Up papers to create something on my own and i have to say that I LOVE THEM. And the response of the recipients was great too. Love it when people appreciate what I do with my cards. It gives me a great feeling.

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

Easter Card

I made this card just as a sample. Some years ago, I bought an Easter card making kit for my daughter to make with me. It contains at least 10 Egg shaped cards and 10 rabbit cards. Unfortunately we never got to use it, until now.

What I used:

Used the Easter Egg Shape and used my fiskar's scallops edge punch, plus I used the left over of those for the pink & yellow lines on the top and bottom of the card. I also used a few flowers that I punched in yellow and a added gold string bow on the top.

Anamaria