Shoebox Thursday

For today's project I made a simple card with the same products almost as here as I still have the punch, stamp and die out so I just changed the papers and inks

For this card I used because the paper I die cut the Washington State map was white I sponged it with old paper ink so it would match more to the beigy background paper. This die is by Impress. The hello from Washington is by Biblical Impressions and was stamped with brushed corduroy ink and punched with scallop oval by SU. Both the map and the oval were both sponged on the edges with brushed corduroy

Shoebox Thursday

For today's project I have another fun fold card and it's the base of yesterday's card but I altered. I still don't know what's it's name other than triangle card but I'm sure there's another card anyway for this card the front looks like a normal card, it's also Thanksgiving theme.

I used a Paper Studio background paper of hay for my background and some scraps of another hay paper for the hands of the scarecrow die. For the stake of my scarecrow I colored with rich cocoa dual marker, the ellipse pieced die is popped with foam, the messaged is from teeny tine wishes set by SU with vintage ink and punched out with word window punched also by SU mounted on top of modern label punch also by SU and they're flat

Shoebox Wednesday

For today's project I had a simple Thanksgiving card. Can't remember the name of the fold, sorry. I used a double sided background paper for this card so I didn't have to worry about which paper to use for one side or the other the only thing that we had to worry was the direction of the pumpkins. The messages is from DelRose Stamping with seedless preserves ink, the pumpkin is a die but don't have a name on the package and Stamps of Life stitched circle die

Shoebox Thursday

Today's shoebox project was provided by Darlene and she got inspired by something she saw on Pinterest. The "pumpkin" was made with two SU punches the large oval and modern label, the message is from a Gina K Designs stamp set. The embossing folder is pumpkin harvest by Cuttlebug, the pearls were colored with Copic Marker

tiny cards

Long post with lots of samples :0)

A couple weeks ago we had a Sunday Tip or Technique that was making little cards out of scraps. When I first saw this challenge it thought I couldn't do this as I don't keep scraps anymore. Since I re-organized my craft room I toss away anything smaller than 3.5 x 5, yes sometimes I feel bad about tossing paper to the recycle bag BUT I had the bad habit of pulling a full sheet instead of digging on the scrap boxes, anyway we were told we could also use full sheets but the challenge was meant to use up scraps.
Over a year ago I had too many scraps (2 boxes) so decided to work on cards using ONLY those scraps, I  did use a full sheets for the base card in the bigger size BUT mostly were the scraps, most cards were not bigger than 3" or 3.5" x 5. The main reason was because I use a lot of 12x12 paper and when you cut off 8.5" x 11" you have a 3.5" x 12 piece left over which is perfect for these little note cards. I also had a bunch of paper that were 4 x 5.25 or 4.25 x 5.5 which I folded in half and ended up with tiny notecards...about 2.5" x 4" or 2.75" x 4.25"
Some of the cards were the same design BUT in different colors. It was fun and was the first time I did that. Normally when I do multiple cards are 98% identical :0) At the end I ended up making more than 300 cards most of them were donated, A lot I kept for thank you cards as you never have enough specially when my birthday & Christmas is coming up :0) as I like to send thank you cards for the people that took time to send me a card and/or gift.
For my online friends from Yahoo Groups I only post a thank you email as well as people I have their email address not because they are not important but I get an average of 50 birthday cards and double the Christmas cards and not always my health permits me to work on cards BUT I do want to let them know I received their cards.
I send hundreds of cards a year other than the Yahoo groups that cards are counted and a few other people say "thank you I got your card" the rest never take the time to let me know so I don't know if I wasted my time and postage because they didn't get it or maybe they just don't think it matters, I do consider the cards I sent a RAK (Random Art of Kindness) so don't expect anything in return but is always nice to know the cards I mailed got to their destination. I HATE when people move expecting their 6 months to a year expiration at the PO to let me know of their new address which by then my postage was wasted so after a few times I decided to remove from my mailing list EVERYONE that do not send me their change of address figure they don't want my cards as there is 100% chance they were going to get mail from me :0) I only changed address 4 times in my life and the moment I moved I let everyone know my new address, you never know when someone would want to send me something or stop by if they were coming to my city.

Any way these are some of the cards I did with the scraps which are great for any occassion

These other cards were mostly between 4" x 4" or regular A2 size but I used the scraps for the punch art or main part of card

 Thanks for reading and looking at ALL the samples hope it inspire you to work on little note cards using your scraps :0)

Shoebox Tuesday

I was lucky to get an extra play day this week. On these extra days if I'm the hostess, I don't have to do a shoe-box project BUT for the most part I do just because I can :0)

Last time we met I showed them the box card I had done and they liked it so I did another card plus instructions so if they wanted to do it on their own they could.

This is the way you mail, it's pretty much flat and fits on regular A2 or A6

Without the belly band

The inside / opened. You could add trinkets or some little thing

The only stamping are the two messages. The inside is by Stampin FunAddict, the outside is by DelRose Stamping. The border punch is Martha Stewart. The paper was from a paper pack from JoAnn's but don't know which one as I had tear all packs apart :0) these type of sheets normally doesn't get used as I don't do scrapbook pages :0)