About a month ago, we had a Stampin' Up party at my house.  Here are the cards that we made.  They are all very doable cards and in fact, I have made my own version of some of them since then.  (I will post those on another day).  The right side of the salmon colored card is a bookmark that can be torn off (edge is already perforated).

  

Random Cards

Birthday Bonanza

I have made a slew of birthday cards for my multitude of family members. I am especially fond of the rubber ducky one (my little sister loves rubber ducks) and the fishing theme (for my grandpa who loves to fish).

For the Duck card, I tried to draw a rubber duck looking shape, and then cut out an orange shape for the bill. I made the bubbles using punches, and coloring them with a white paint pen.

For the Fishing Card, I used a water patterned paper, and a sand colored paper for the "shore". I made a wood sign, and used a Stampendous Happy Birthday stamp. The fish is from a Provo Craft paper pack. I made the pail using tin foil and paper (the handle is made with floral wire). The fishing pole is a twig from my backyard, and I made a reel with floral wire, used clear nylon thread for fishing line, and made a hook (using floral wire) and lure (using ribbon that I shredded).

The other cards are pretty standard design.

Father's Day

This year, on my bid to make all the cards I send out by hand, I did a slew of Father's Day cards for my Dad, Grandpa and brothers/brother-in-law. They were all "unique", but fit the same pattern. I used scraps for making the ties (made a cardboard pattern for it), and hand wrote the greeting, hearts, and line.

Graduation Cards

I recently had a friend graduate with her Master's degree, and I made a card. The wording is horrible, but I made the mistake of handprinting it, and so it is uneven and crappy! I made the "tassle" with ribbon, since our PX didn't have any embroidery floss. I used floral wire to make the neck of the tassle, and the '08 symbol.


This one was for my youngest sister who is graduating from high school this year. Her high school mascot is a tiger, hence the orange background and black stripes. I used scrap black cardstock for the stripes. Same method with the tassle and such on this one. This time I used stickers for the year.

Mother's Day

I made this one for my Mom. The picture didn't turn out well, but the background paper is purple from DCWV spring stack. I punched out white dots and made a "pearl" necklace, using silver eyelets and wire for the clasp, and put it on vellum.

Nine Patch Card

Kelli made a nine patch card on her blog last week. This is my version. I added the butterfly from my scrapbook program.

Anna's Fabulous Cards

My good friend sent these to me in February so I could post them on this blog. I don't know what happened to my brain, but I completely forgot I had these pictures!! Sorry it took so long, Anna!!

I love your cards!!!!

Cards I Didn't Make :)

I'm so glad all of you keep posting cards! I have been to two card-making nights in the last month where someone pulled up this blog on the computer to copy an idea. We all have different styles and it is so fun to think outside of my own card-making rut. I appreciate your posts -- even when I don't have time to comment! I think a lot more people appreciate your posts than make comments.
I recently received some cute cards in the mail. Here are a few of them. And yes, I know, I'm breaking the slideshow "rule." Enjoy!

A fun, simple idea using embroidery floss - the ink smudge in the middle is from my kids. Cute idea, Catherine!

A fun way to make an exclamation point with a tag and a heart. Thanks, Maren!

My Grandma J. (who knows my family loves smiley faces) made this card for my 4-yr-old son. I especially love the rectangle strips.

This is my favorite Grandma J. card, ever!! It is so simple and so elegant.

This is from my step-mom, Jan - I love the symmetry and all the little stamps. I never know how to use my little stamps!

Can someone post the cards from Cami's party? The other Julie said that is great as long as we give her credit. My camera is doing a horrible job at taking pictures right now (that's code for I'm exhausted and going to bed =).

Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday

A quick card done at a make and take at Archiver's on NSD. Thanks for looking!!!

Baby Dear

This card's incredibly easy to make. I'm making a few of these for my LSS card swaps.

Materials used:

DCWV blank card
Prima flowers
Basic Grey Lilykate paper
Quickutz die cuts
Buttons
Acrylic stamp
and ribbon.

Mother's Day Cards

Just a couple Mother's Day cards I threw together using some leftovers from a baby book I made. These are DCWV Nana's Kids papers, Pink Cat Studio Lily & Tweet stamps, Hero Arts sentiment stamp, Stickles and ribbon from my stash (I think from paper studio).

Thanks for looking!!!

Card Frenzy

I made a ton of cards about a month ago but I haven't had a chance to post any of them. Here are several that I made. The quality of the slideshow didn't turn out that great. However, I will have to fix that later cuz right now I need to go to bed.

A "HI" Card

I finally made another card!

Just For You

I made this card for a young lady in our church congregation that is leaving for BYU-Idaho. It looks kind of crappy, since I found out about the "surprise" party about 45 minutes before I had to leave.

The paper is from DCWV Spring Stack 2007. The phrase stamp is from Stampendous.

Simple Things

I made this card yesterday using Bo Bunny papers, ribbons, Bosskut die cuts, a yellow button, and some rhinestones.

I have so much left over scraps from my scrapbooking pages, I can probably make thousands of cards. I find that making cards are just as time consuming as making pages...maybe it's just me. ^_^

It's Party Time

Another simple birthday card. I used DCWV patterened papers, some buttons, and rub-ons.

Birthday Card

This is a very simple card to make. I used Bo Bunny papers, buttons, red dots ribbon, and a fabric sticker.

Stationary Box w/Cards

Hi all - here is a cute little stationary box I made w/3 cards to go inside. Thanks for looking!!!

Karen

Thanks!

This is one of the cards I made this weekend. I used Deja Vu's baby girl paper line. I thought the paper was pretty enough not to add anything else. All I added was a few rhinestones to add bling to the card.

BIrthday Wishes

These are some of my latest birthday cards.

Just for you

A friend of mine has a friend back in the states who is having a hard time, so I made a random card for her to send to this friend.

New Baby Boy

My friend just had a baby, and part of her gift from me was some handmade baby announcements. They aren't spectacular, but here is what they looked like.



I also did a "keepsake" page for her scrapbook, what was done in the same sort of style as the announcement.

The background paper is DCWV Spring stack 2007.

*HI* Greeting Card

I usually don't make cards on a regular basis, but I've been making alot of them lately. Believe it or not, I still go out and buy cards from a store...I don't know why, but I'm sending out handmade cards from now on. It's much cheaper and I can use up my scraps. ^_^

Materials used:

DCWV blank card & papers, button, Quickutz die cuts.

Happy Spring, Everybody!

This picture is terrible. The card is white in real life. Looking at this picture, I think I'll probably lightly shade the boy and the horse. Anyway, it's a card and I actually posted it. You guys have inspired me to post more!

This is a card designed especially for my Stampin' Up Grandma J...hopefully she won't see it before she receives it in the mail! She is so amazing and is always making cards for my family - for Easter, Valentines Day, Halloween, birthdays, etc.

Happy Spring!

p.s. If you want to be an author, put your email in a comment and I'll add you!

Baby Shower Invitation

My friend Camille made this invitation for a baby shower. I just thought it was so completely unique and adorable I wanted to share with everyone! What a creative idea! Anyway, I hope you like it!


Invitation inside

*FRIENDSHIP* Card

This is the first time I'm posting on this site. I think this site is a great idea. I love making cards and I love looking at other people's card creations.

Material used:

DCWV blank card
Bazzill cardstocks
Crate Papers
Stamp
Brad
and a pink mulberry flower

Easter Thank You Cards

These are two thank you cards I made for some of my husband's co workers. They worked on the annual Easter Egg Hunt for his work group (the bottom one was for the sweet man who dressed up as the easter bunny). The papers are from the DCWV 2007 Spring Stack.

Congratulations Card

Here is a quick card I made tonite for a darling friend who just got engaged!!! Gratz Elisa!!! The CS is from my stash, PP for background and dress is Basic Grey Scarlet Letter, the embossed PP was done using the Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder, Dress Stamp from Hero Arts, Pearls on dress from Hero Arts, Congratulations stamp from Kelly Panicci for Sandy Lion and the ink is ColorBox Chalk Ink in Charcoal.

Hope you like and thanks for looking!!!

Karen

Baby Card

I made this for a friend's baby shower. She had a baby boy. The paper is from the DCWV Spring 2007 stack, and has baby boy related phrases. I used white cardstock for the card. I punched out a circle (about 1") in baby blue cardstock,and then backed it on white cardstock. I punched two little holes (to make it look like a button), and then ran the ribbon through it.

I'm not too happy with how the bow turned out, so any suggestions on that front would be welcome.

I like the overall look well enough that I am using this design for some baby announcements for another friend.

Couple Quick Cards

Hi ladies!!!

Here are a couple quick cards I threw together. I used Marvy Uchida punches for a local contest using them. The first tag card is using Making Memories Garden Party PP's and the second is Daisy D's PP's. Both have faux stitching done with Sharpie Fine Point markers and flowers from Prima. Thanks for looking!!

Karen