Card Crazy

I never, never, thought I would be a card maker, but here I am making cards. Go figure. I am really proud of myself , because this is all my own. I didn't look to anyone but myself and ALL the paper I have. (I truly have a problem with buying scrapbooking paper) I needed some thank you cards and this is what I came up with. While the layout is the same there are slight  difference in each one.

I entered this card in the Frosted Design Fabulous Friday Challenge

Can you see the little branch the owl is sitting on it is from the Home Decor and more Cartridge and the tag is from George. (Good ole George) Oh, yeah, remember all those decorative scissors we bought way back when well I got one out and use it to trim the bottom of the front of the card. Yeah for me. I also used the Swiss Dot Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.Oh, one more thing I used Ranger Distress Ink on the Embossed 3x3 square. :) I off to do some more projects.
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Wedding Card

Don't you just love the colors brown and blue together, they have a feeling of sophistication and elegance when paired together. This card is totally impractical to mail. I would need to make a box to mail it in with that huge bow on the front, but we have a wedding to go to in December and I will enclose it with the gift so no postage necessary. I used my new Martha Stewart punch on the corners and the paper is from American Crafts.

Here is a up close and personal view of the card. This was so easy to make now you try.

Wedding Card

This is the card I made to go with the Wedding Guest Book Gift. I used a file that was made by Capadia, click Here to go link that will give you the file. I will be making alot of purple cards right now since I have so many scraps left over from this project, but that okay because I love purple. You can see that I use the same concept as the white monocromatic card. I used three different cuttlebug embossing folders, (I am totally addicted to them) I hope this inspires you.

Monocromatic Thank You Card

I wanted to make monocromatic card. I love the monocromatic look and the key to pulling it off is using texture. I used the Cuttlebug embossing folders the Swiss Dot and Swirls. This was my first attempt at using embossing powder (I got some for Christmas) The glitter embossing powder was a little harder to see if it was melting and of course I tried to contain the glitter as much as possible but it was all over my kitchen table. I used my Cricut to cut the scalloped circle. The only thing I don't like is the "Thanks" I feel it was a little too informal for the card, but it was the only stamp I had that would fit in the circle. Lastly, I used the wonderful Martha Stewart branch punch.I love that punch and try to use it when ever I can. I hope this card will inspire you to try a monocromatic card. I am going to try to make some other cards with some other colors.

Close up of the branch punch on the top of the card

I used a swirly stamp and randomly stamped around the scalloped circle and embossed it.

Mother and Child Cut File

I am going to post my cut file for the mother and child cut file for a 24 hour period so any one who visit my blog will be rewarded with immediate access to the file. Let the count down begin.