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pop up card for jai

Posted in fancy cards, greeting cards, tagged cards, flower card, lovin the life I color, pop up cards, thinking of you card on March 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Speaking of pop up cards. A few weeks ago, my friend Marie and I made Jai a “thinking of you” card. I remembered a GREAT blog post that I saw on Kelly’s website, Lovin’ The Life I Color, with an AMAZING pop up card. I decided that I wanted to try this. Kelly actually e-mailed me a You Tube video explaining how to make the card, and it turned out to be easier than I expected.

Of course, nothing ever STAYS easy. We had the great idea to make a vase of flowers. Then I had a great idea to make the flowers out of cardboard. Then before we knew it, the card was too heavy to actually stand up!! So clearly, the first time in card-making history that my engineering degree has come into play, we engineered the card to work properly.

I highly recommend trying to make this card once – it was so much easier than I expected it to be, and it DEFINITELY has a WOW effect.

So, what do you think?

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a cornucopia of greeting cards

Posted in basic cards, greeting cards, tagged birthday cards, cards, greeting cards on February 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »

So, my life has gotten crazy again y’all. (That should be your first tip off – I’m saying y’all again, #1 – it saves time, #2 – I’m back to living half of the week in Louisiana (shout out to Cate and the Baton Rouge Chorus!!!)) So it’s not that somebody won CUPID – it’s that my life got crazy, so scroll to the bottom for today’s CUPID numbers (although I would prefer if you read everything in between as well… or at least looked at the pictures).

Anyway, in case you haven’t noticed yet, I make all of my cards in spurts. I’ll go for weeks without making cards and then sit down and make a whole bunch at the same time. This isn’t exactly the best method for getting things to people on time (for example, anybody who’s birthday was after January9th has not received a birthday card yet… and it’s now February), but it makes for a cornucopia of pictures in my blog posts. (That’s called looking at the silver lining.) So here’s the group of them:

Quite the variety, huh? So here’s the breakdown.

A: The picture is from a small Mary Engelbreit calendar that I have, the card is for a friend’s birthday.
B: This card is for a 20-year-old boy. I decided somewhere along the way that boys always like comics. I have no proof if this is true or not.
C: This is for a 2-year-old’s birthday, the only problem is that I found out from his mother that he wanted to take the duck off and play with it. I felt pretty bad that you couldn’t take the duck off to play with it. I guess I’m going to have to be more innovative next time.
D: This is for a friend’s birthday, I hope he enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed making it. I also really like that stamp that I have.
E: This is for a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time, another male who has always seemed like he enjoys inspirational sayings.
F & G: Cut from the same fabric, with two different messages. One for an old co-worker and one for a friend from high school. I love the bright colors.
H: This is the inside of card G.
I: This was Uncle Tim’s birthday card. Please note the masculine colors – I love the colors of those stripes.
J: This is for my old boss, Anthony, we worked on the construction site together. He’d try to teach me about rock music during our lunch breaks sometimes. I thought this was fitting.

Please enjoy!

Today’s CUPID Numbers: I-42 and P-31.

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thank you cards for bakers

Posted in basic cards, greeting cards, tagged cards, greeting cards, thank you cards on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »

So as you all (probably) know, I travel a lot for my job. Somehow (I’m still not quite sure how) I got put in charge of finding people to bake for an event in the office (in Philadelphia) on a Wednesday (when I was in Louisiana). I needed at least 5 people (out of the usual 20 people) in the office to bake. On that day, I felt remarkably bad for anybody sitting in the Philadelphia office that I had ever spoken to for more than 10 minutes because I was pinging up a storm trying to get people to bake. There were a bunch of people who came through – thank you, JK, SM, JS, TB, TP & NR for guiding me (unfortunately, RN was not able to help out like he said he was going to… I forgave him.). Anyway, by the time we got done with this shuffle I felt like these people had baked as more of a personal favor to me rather than a favor to the company. And what do you do when somebody does you a really nice favor that you’re really really grateful for? (if you’re me) You make them a card. Can you believe I had just bought these stickers on clearance a month earlier? (Can you believe they were on clearnance?!) Perfect.

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my current top four signature greeting card features

Posted in card making tips, greeting cards, tagged arts and crafts, cards, decorations, features, greeting cards, homemade, inspiration on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

During my card making process, there are usually some key features of my greeting cards that are similar from card to card. I always try to come up with a unique idea for each card, but there are certain ideas that I just can’t seem to shake. For example, right now I’ve been on a stamping kick – and I’ve bought a few awesome Christmas stamps that I can’t wait to try out. (Actually, let’s stop talking about Christmas – I’m starting to get nervous, I’ve got 1 month + 12 days to make +100 Christmas Cards. This is why I get so many PTO days, right?)

Back to what we were originally talking about – my top 4 key features from the past few weeks. Check it out.

(1) Small cutout square letters pasted on small cutout square paper