The Observation Car

It’s time to send notes of appreciation for all those wonderful holiday gifts and thoughts you received in the last few weeks.  Here are three easy cards to slide you into the creative mood.  Sometimes it is difficult to transform from holiday mode to everyday life.  Start off with these “no brainer” cards and you can develop more ideas as you go.

I used the circle cut out cards from Stamp Express.  They now are available in colors like black, red, yellow, green, pink, blue and purple as well as white.  Cover the bottoms with Bo-Bunny designer paper, and add a stamped message, sticker or image.  Purchase circle cut out cards here.

Still in the winter theme I used a snowflake sticker on the black and white sample.  The Sizzix tag sports the sentiment leaving the inside to write a message.  On the key collage,  I finally got to use Stampin’ Up butcher twine with an Accucut buckle and the stamped message on the circle.  This stamp is from Hero Arts, but you could use any that fit the round Nesties circle.  My third card is thinking of Spring.  Daffodils are Just-Rite and colored with Copic markers.  The ribbon is May Arts.  Check out stampexpressstore.com for all supplies.  There is a SALE going on in January.

Now write a brief  message and send these notes out to those you love.  Friends and family  would much rather receive a real card than an e-mail blurb from you in the new year!

Happy 2012!

Thank You Card #1

ThankYou Card #2

Thank You Card #3

For the Stamp Express birthday celebration on Saturday, June 26, I will be doing 4 demos of various techniques for cards.  Below are two of the planned ideas.  They were cased from Gina K on her Stamp TV site.  The first is my version of cropped circles.  Use layered die cuts from circle Nesties and after adhereing them to a layer, crop the edges.  Of course you could try the same technique with ovals and other shapes.  The second card has curly-Q hinges at the sides of an oval Nestie. The hinges are created with 4 swirly diecuts from Sizzix.  I will also include two projects not pictured here.  One is a paper lace flower using a Martha Stewart punch.  The other is a distressed background made from an old book page.  Come to the store Saturday and see these in person.  If you are interested, but can’t make it, just e-mail me for further directions.

Cropped Circles

Flower stamp: Just Rite Stamps
Word stamp: Unknown
Prismacolor pencils: Sanford
Circle Die cuts: Nestabilities from Spellbinder
Cardstock: Paper Cut & Core’dinations
Sponged ink: Marvy Matchable inkpads

Curly-Q Hinges

Stamp: Just Rite Stamps
Oval Diecuts: Nesties from Spellbinder
Flourish Diecut: Sizzix
Swiss Dots Embossing Folder: Provo Craft
Cardstock: Paper Cut & Core’dinations
Markers: Copic
Special Copic Paper: Stamp Express