Wedding Card

It has been a while since I last posted. I'm quite happy to post about this latest card.
With the wedding season looming for many, my friend asked me to make her a wedding card for one of her soon to be married friends.

I decided to make a wedding dress card...

This card was designed by me and cut out on my Silhouette SD.
The front of the dress was embossed using the Big Shot to give it a little texture.

The back of the dress was designed to look like a lace up dress.
I used my Crop-a-Dile Big Bite II to add the necessary eyelets...add a little ribbon and voila!
I loved how it turned out.

Inside the card is another cut out of the wedding dress on vellum, to give it some added dimensions.
I stamp embossed a simple "Congratulations" to make it complete.

Quite a simple to make card that I really enjoyed making for my friend.
I hope she likes it!

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan - Baby Crochet Quilt

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan! Newly wed, now expecting parents!

For my godbrother and his new wife, who are now expecting, I made them and their expected baby a crochet quilt. Yuan's laughing because after years and years AND YEARS, I have been working on a knit blanket for him and to this day, it's still not completed. It'll probably never be completed...hehehe However, after dedicating all of January to the making of a baby blanket for them, it was completed as planned.

The crochet quilt is made up of little hexagon pieces.

Instructions for a single hexagon piece:
Chain 4, form ring with a slst
Chain 2, 19 DC inside the ring, slst to finish the first row
Chain 2, 5 DC inside first DC, skip 2 DC, 6 DC in next DC, repeat around, slst to finish second row
Chain 1, 5 SC inside first DC,  SC in next 5 DC then 5 SC in 6th DC, repeat around, slst to finish third and final row.

It takes 7 hexagon pieces to make a patch...

 There are 6 different colour patches...

Sewing each of the patches together...

 Makes this sweet colourful crochet quilt...

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan! Can't wait for your summer bundle of joy! I'm guessing it's going to be a boy!

More Christmas Cards

Happy belated Holidays everyone! Hope Santa was nice to you, even if you were a little naughty!

Here's a view of some of the other Christmas Cards I sent out during the holidays.

Frosty the Snowmen...

Snowflake Mittens...

Hanging Mittens...

Elf marking his calendar...

Vancouver Canucks Ornament Christmas Card

It was hard to decide what cards to make for our friends. Some of our friends received custom made Christmas Cards and some of our friends received these Canucks Ornament Christmas Cards, which Richard loves. These were the Christmas Cards I mentioned previously...

It's a fairly simple card to make, once you have all the pieces cut out. The white ornament, Canucks Logo, and Santa hat were all designed and cut out on my Silhouette.

The white ornaments were all embossed with different embossing folders using my Big Shot.

The base of the Christmas Card had all its corners punched out with the Martha Stewart snowflake corner punch.

After all the pieces were taken care of, a little gluing and voila...you have a Christmas Card that can be hung on a Christmas Tree.

Hanging Christmas Stockings

I have been experimenting with other 3D card ideas. In this particular card, instead of gluing down my decorations, I decided to hang it, which allows it to stand out when it's displayed.

The card was embossed with a polka dot embossing folder with my Big Shot and the corners were punched out with the Martha Stewart Snowflake Corner

Using the Crop-a-dile Big  Bite, I added eyelets to the stockings, so that I can string up the stockings securely.

The stockings were designed and cut out on my Silhouette. Once the pieces were glued together, the stitches were hand drawn on with sharpies. I love my huge sharpies collection.

I was very happy how is turned out. A simple idea is really all you need for an adorable card. My co-worker loved this one because it's sooo her!

Christmas Box Card

You might think that a Christmas card is just a standard fold-up 2 dimensional card, but that's not true. you can be creative and turn anything into a Christmas card.

I saw a blog the other day where they made a boxed christmas card and decided to give it a try, since I have a co-worker who would love this kind of a Christmas card.

As you can see, it's a box drawer card.

When you pull on the ribbon, the drawer pulls out to reveal the little gifts you've stored inside. In this case, I included a pair of red mittens, a stocking, a santa hat and a 3D snowflake.

This project is quite simple, though you have to be very specific with measurements to make sure the drawer fits perfectly in the box.

Materials used:

Martha Stewart snowflake punch

Martha Steward snowflake corner punch

Scoring Board

Crop-a-Dile Big Bite

Silhouette (for the mittens, stocking and santa hat)

Waterfall Christmas Card

My first waterfall card, the Thank You Waterfall Card, for my co-worker Cristina was a success. Everyone at work loved it. Cristina loved it too.

Since then, I decided to make another waterfall card, this time for Christmas.
Using a very simple idea, this is what I came up with...

 

This card was made with:
- paper cutter
- scoring board
- paper
- stamp
- embossing powder