All Star Dad

All Star Dad

A Converse sneaker card, dirty on the sole because you know they never stay clean more than 2 minutes... I found this wonderful idea on the scrapbook snippets blog (http://scrapbooksnippets.blogspot.com/), and adapted it to  a father's day card.

I just loved that idea...

The grommets for the shoe laces are made in paper, and I added some 3D crystal Lacquer to make them look metallic. I had some problems finding a way of writing in circle with my apple page program... after a frustrating long time spent in front of my computer, I decided to use sticky letters, and that was that.

I then thought I own a wonderful Silhouette Cameo, with a load of tutorial on line, and I used it to write a circular "all star" message. it works beautifully.

I use my Faber-Castell PITT artist white pen to draw the  stitchings.

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Until next time!

Anniversary Flowers

Anniversary Flowers

Last year at the sacramento Craft fair, I found those metallic embellishments from Scrapyard 329, and I have been using most of the graduation and party related ones.

This red bouquet just found its place.

I printed the sentiment from my computer, and added a piece of linen run through my Cuttlebug in an embossing folder, at the bottom.

I then glued a small red ribbon.

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A two step card, simple and cute...

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Holder

Valentine's Day, Chocolate Holder.

Here we go again! A new Valentine's day roll around and we are thinking care package for our girls in College.

This time, we had a crowd to please! So I made simple little square cards with a printed sentiment, stuck a See's candy chocolate heart and drew a stem to this "flower" before adding a piece of baker's twine as a finishing touch.

 It doesn't get simpler than that.

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Red and Black Thank you Cards

Red and Black Thank You Cards.

After participating to the first Craft fair ever, I met a wonderful client, Susan,  who needed thank you cards, but she wanted some special ones.

She asked me to design a few and she chose the two models below.

The cards had to be black and red since her business card and logo were these color.

She also wanted a place on the inside to hold a gift card.

I found that beautiful red linen card stock at Paperandmore.com, and raided the black section of ribbons at my local Michael's... after all, I had to make 200 cards!

The stamp used on the first one comes from the Thanks a Bunch thank you set from Sparkle'n Sprinkle.

For the second one, I printed the sentiment beforehand, and used a edger from Martha Stewart to make a lacy edge.

Since my client was worried her writing on the inside would show, I lined up the top flap with a red piece of linen.

The black ribbon tied on the red piece of linen on top of the card is very classy.

For the gift card enclosure, I chose to use some vellum, as to not conceal the gift card.

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I really loved working with this client, and I think she was thrilled with the results.

Until next time.

Love Note with Key

Love Note with Key.

I made the envelope in scoring diagonally a rectangle in red shiny paper.

I then punched a double heart in the middle with an EK Success punch and added the red heart in the middle.

I used a stamp with no name for the key, cut it our and tied it with a piece of rope around the envelope.

The envelop is propped up with dimensionals.

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Notecards

Notecards.

Because there are days I look for a notecard for a quick note, I made a stack of those.

The butterfly on silver is pretty easy to find a use for, to go with a box of chocolate or a bottle of wine.

The blue has what looks like a Mont Blanc star, that could pass for a star of David for a Hanukkah gift... or not.

The red one is almost definitively a Valentine's mini card, then again, it could go any other way.

As for the palm tree on Kraft, it has that natural feel that allow it to fit in any occasion.

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Most of the punches used here are mini Recollections punches, except the butterfly: it's an EK success punch.

Until next time.