Shoebox Tuesday

Happy Halloween! For today's shoebox project I have another Halloween project :0) this is a fun fold card. Linda  Bauwin did a card so I decided to do it but I changed mine as I don't like strip of papers :0) again no stamping other than the message. My owl punch art was in my box of scraps to use at some point. Can't remember if she had a name for this fold

This is the front of the card

and the difference with her card is that I did a full panel for the card base instead of just a 1" strip on the back of the orange card base so layers had to be re-adjusted and the orange became a layer not the base :0)

Shoebox Thursday

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Two weeks ago I borrowed the blossom petals builder punch by SU so I could work on a Sunday Tip or Technique. Since I enjoyed working on the card and had punched enough pieces decided to use the project as my shoebox project :0) Because it's a bunny and didn't put any message TO ME is just a plain and simple spring card, but of course you can use it as an Easter card or any occasion :0) The tutorial was by Dawn Griffith it was a shaped card and a treat basket, mostly I don't do 3D project and since I'm picky and don't like the marks that the cutting mat leaves on the back of the paper I made my card regular size using the bunny as my main image. Used wiggly eyes to make it more fun :0) The heart is a Spellbinders die, miscellaneous circle punches and the blossom petals by SU

I also made this card...it was a bunny picking out in the grass. I didn't give them the option on papers since I didn't have enough of the grass paper but wanted to show two looks of same layout. On the bottom I used one of my cloud templates with ink and sponge dauber to give it some color and texture

St Patrick's Day

One more card. The hat was done cutting a square then used the modern label SU punch and EK Success punch for the clover. The eyebrows, nose and mustache were done with two-step bird punch SU the bow is a Spellbinders die. I hand-drew the mouth and the eyes are from JoAnn's

3D card

I saw a card on Pinterest with some snowflakes hanging on the inside and the person that pinned it said it would be a card that would work for Valentine's or Easter so I decided to try it so here is the Valentine's idea.

I used some jewel stickers from Michaels for the front...cut a couple pieces to make the two hearts connected and for the inside I glued back to back with the fishing thread in between. The border punch is by Martha Stewart and the embossing folders the front is Cuttlebug ran with embossing diffuser, the inside left is by Cuttlebug and the inside right is by Crafts-Too

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)