Simple Card

Hello Friends!

Hope you are doing well. Its very hot here since past three days. The temperatures are so high as if in mid summers.

Today's card is:

Thank You Card

I think I have made many cards using this particular MB dies. 

I love flowers. May be it is one of the reasons. May be when you buy something new, you have to play with it. May be I have very few dies and so I use it again and again. 

I think I have some more cards and bookmarks made using these dies.

Thank You Card

I have used A4 size card stock folded into half as base. 

The colour of the base card and the layers is as in the first image. In the second image, exact colours were not captured properly. Even the colour of insert is cream colour same as that of the layers on the front of the card.

Insert

This card has plain white envelope.

Hope you  like my work.

Materials Used:

• Mint Coloured Card stock A4 Size
• Cream coloured Card Stock Scraps
• Plaid Hand Made paper (thick)
• Medium Border Punch
• Memory Box Bloomington Border
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Mega Dies Labels 20
• Sentiment Stamp
• Black Ink
• Cream coloured A4 sized Paper for insert
• Glue

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Thank You Card

Hi Friends! Hope you are all doing well.

Here the past few days, there has been continuous rains. Today also it heavily overcast and raining now and then. It is all damp and cold. So we are mostly indoors. Our celebrations of Janmashtami was also very low key.

Today I am posting another Thank You card.

Base of the card is A4 size white Ivory Card folded into half. I have layered it with blue textured paper and then with yellow embossed strip. Then added the flowers and sentiment.

Insert has been punched in the four corners using border punch.

This card was easy and simple. Hope You like this. If you like my work, please drop in your comments and like it on FB and Insta accounts.

I have lots more to share with you. So keep an eye on my blog.

Thanks for all the support you are extending to me and my blog. 

Materials Used:

• A4 size White Ivory Card Stock
• A4 size Blue Textured Sheet
• A4 size Yellow Embossed Sheet
• White Card Stock Scrap
• Red Handmade Paper Scrap
• Memory Box Bloomington Border Dies
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 23 Dies
• A4 size White paper for insert
• Border punch Medium size
• Sentiment Stamp
• Blue Ink
• Glue

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Thinking Of You Card

It was highly overcast since last three days and sometimes raining heavily and sometimes just light showers. It is cold and damp but better than the hot humid climate we had in past week.

Today I am sharing another simple card.

Think Of You Card

I have used cream coloured glittery card stock as base which is handmade paper. 

Because of the glittery surface and the shiny surface of the tapes, it was difficult to photograph it. I am sorry for the poor quality of images.

I have used printed washi tapes and punched out butterflies. 

Thinking Of You Card

I have added dimension to the sentiment part so that it stands out a bit.

I have added cream coloured insert with stamped butterflies.

Insert

Hope you like the card.

Materials Used:

• Cream Coloured Glittery Handmade Card Stock A4 Size
• Red Coloured Handmade Card Stock scraps
• Cream and Pink Handmade Card Stock scrap
• Chevron Pattern Red and Black Washi Tapes
• Butterfly Punch
• Red and Yellow flat bottomed Crystals
• Double sided Foam Tape
• Satin Ribbon Rose with Leaves
• Sentiment Stamp
• Butterflies Stamp
• Red and Black Inks 
• Corner Rounder

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A Small Thank You Card

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well.

Its a sunny day today. Actually its very hot like in summer season with lots of humidity. 

Today I am posting a Thank You card which is simple and small in size  -  4.5 x 5.7 inches. Actually I have cut an A4 size White Ivory card length wise into half and the folded it.

This is an 'A'fold card.

Thank You Card

It has a cream coloured insert (matching the Antique Linen colour of the card) with punched border.

Card Insert

I made a matching envelope with punched border. 

I should have used the same design of border on envelope too. I think I missed it out. Sometimes when I am making more than one card, I try to make all the inserts at the same time. Similarly for the envelopes too. That's how I might have missed it.

Envelope

Hope you like this card. Please do leave your comments and suggestions.

Stay Safe.  Stay Healthy.

Materials Used:

• Ivory White Card Stock
• JAGS Spring Back Printed Paper Pack A5 size
• Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles Dies
• Itsy Bitsy Clear Stamps
• Black  Ink
• Rangers Antique Linen Distress Ink
• Cream Coloured Paper for insert
• Cream and Pink Coloured Papers for envelope
• Border Punches
• Glue

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Simple Card

Hello Friends!  Hope you are all doing well.

Today I am sharing yet another simple card. 

Simple Card

I have used blue coloured A4 size card stock folded into half. Then I added the printed paper and the plaid tape. Finally added the stamped sentiment.

Simple Card

Inside the card I have punched all the four corners using border punch.

Simple Card-Insert

This card has white envelope. 

Hope you like this card. Please do drop in your comments and suggestions. Have a happy week end. 

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy!

Materials Used:

• Blue Card Stock A4 size
• JAGs Paper Pack (W&M) A5 size
• White Card Stock Scrap
• Blue and White Plaid Paper Tape 1/4 Inch
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies - Wonky Squares
• Blue Heart Shaped Crystals
• Sentiment Stamp
• Blue Ink
• White Paper A4 size for insert
• Medium Border Punch
• Glue
• Double sided foam tape

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Good Luck Card

Hello Friends! Hope you are all enjoying your week end.

Here is my card for today.

Good Luck Card

The base was Kraft paper thick enough for card making. I have used the negative space of butterfly punched out from the kraft paper. Underneath I added an orange coloured scrap paper. Then added the sentiment printed on a circle punched out from the same colour paper.

I have added plain cream coloured paper as insert. This card has matching kraft paper envelope which I made to match the card.

Overall look of the card is subdued. What do you think? Is it too sombre? Should I have gone for some bright colours? If so which colours would match the brown of kraft paper?

Please do leave your comments and suggestions. I would like to read hem very much.

Materials Used:

Kraft Paper A4 size

JAGs Papermania Signature Printed Paper 6X6 size

Orange coloured craft paper scraps

Sentiment Stamp

Black Ink

Circle and Butterfly punches

Glue and Double sided foam tape

Cream Coloured Paper A4 size for Insert

Kraft paper Envelope

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Thank You Card

Hello There! Hope you are doing great!

Here it is still raining on and off. But today we have some sunshine. That's a great blessing. But it will soon rain again. 

I don't mind rains. In fact without monsoons we will not have water for drinking or for our agriculture. It is great for my garden too. But continuous heavy downpour is really difficult to manage.

Well here is another card. Again a thank you card. I have used three colours, white as base and purple and orange combo for the touch of colour. One of the ways to reduce my scrap stash.

I have lots of scraps of various sizes, colours and textures lying around. I have stuffed them into polythene bags. There is a lot of dust here in India and we have to keep everything in covered boxes or bags. 

In India we don't get much storage or organising items for craft materials. Even if we get the cost is too high. So we  are forced to manage with whatever is available.

Thank You Card

This card has plain white insert and a plain white envelope.

Hope you like this one.

Thanks a lot for spreading love and joy by visiting my blog and commenting. It means a lot to me. In these difficult times mostly locked down (self imposed) in our homes and fearing to hear about loss of your kith and kin, it is quite depressive and sad. It has been like that for the past one and half year. The future too seems uncertain. But we can only pray and leave everything to HIM.

Watch out for more...

Materials Used:

• White Ivory Card Stock A4 size
• Purple Card Stock Scrap
• Orange Card Stock Scrap
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 23
• Memory Box Bloomington Border
• Sizzix Thinlits Winged Beauties
• Sentiment Stamp
• Purple Ink
• Glue

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Red And White Card

Hello Friends!

Its been raining here for the past few days. Sometimes it is quite a heavy rain. Sometimes it is a drizzle. On the whole it is highly overcast and damp for the past one week or so. Because of heavy rains and winds, there are frequent power outages. With high levels of humidity it is really unbearable when there is no power.

Most of our daily schedule is disrupted because of power cuts. So it is irritating sometimes.

Well here is a birthday card with minimum colours. I have used white and red combination as background and a little bit of black in sentiment and embellishment. 

Red and White Card

I have folded the Ivory card stock into half and glued the die cuts. I then added the sentiment and butterfly sticker.

Red and White Card

Sometimes I hate to touch the stamping materials. It is so messy. And then the stickers I bought in a sale along with other crafts materials were overflowing my storage bins. So I had to use them.

This card has plain white insert and a plain white envelope.

I think the colours are too bold. But I thought white and red is a good combination. Can red coloured be paired with any other colour? Any suggestions please. I have so much of red card stock with me 

Materilas Used:

• White Ivory Card Stock A4 size
• Red Card Stock
• Tattered Lace Decorative Rectangles Dies
• Glue
• Happy Birthday Sticker
• Butterfly Sticker

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Warm Wishes

Hi there. Today I am posting another card which is simple and easy to make. 

As base I have used A4 size white Ivory stock card folded in half. I used strips of baby pink card and purple colour polka dots printed paper to add some colour. I love polka dots. Do you?

The scalloped ovals were die cut from pink and white coloured card stock to match the design. I stamped the sentiment on the white oval with black ink and added a small 3D sticker. 

I have used double sided foam tape to give a little dimension to the oval die cuts.

Warm Wishes Card

Warm Wishes Card

For the insert, I have punched border on three sides of pink paper using border punch. This card has plain white envelope. 

Insert Border using Punch

Insert

Sorry for the bad quality of images. Here it is all overcast and raining continuously for the past few days. 

Hope you all got vaccinated. Please follow all the precautions for protecting yourself and others from Covid 19. 

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy!

Materials Used :

• A4 size White Ivory Card Stock
• Baby Pink Card Stock
• JAGS Paper Pack -Spring Back -A5 Size
• Scalloped Oval Dies
• Sentiment Stamp
• Rangers Archive Ink-Jet Black
• 3D Sticker
• Glue and double sided foam tape
• Pink coloured paper for insert
• Border Punch

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Thank You Card

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well.

I am posting after a long long time. With Corona and lock downs life has changed a lot. We are still very careful, going out only when absolutely necessary and taking all precutions.

Here is a card I made some time back. A simple Thank you Card. This card was made in one of my classes for demonstration.

The base of the card is plain white ivory card stock. I have used sunny yellow hand made paper with square grid and red card stock for butterflies.

For the insert, I have used two different shades of  paper. The top layer is off-white coloured and underneath yellow coloured paper strips. I have punched out all the four corners of the top insert using butterfly border punch. 

Insert 

This card has a plain white envelope.

Hope you like this card. Watch out for more...

Materials Used:

• A4 size  White Ivory Card Stock
• White Card Stock scrap for stamping
• Sunny Yellow square grid handmade paper 
• Spellbinders Nestability-Scalloped Labels One dies
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies-Winged Beauties
• Sentiment Stamp
• Red Ink
• Glue, dimensional Dots
• Off white A4 size paper for insert
• Sunny yellow coloured paper strips for the four corners for insert
• Corner Punch Butterfly design

Stay  Safe. Stay Healthy.

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A Simple Thank You Card

Hi Friends!

How are you all doing? Its quite cloudy here today. We may have heavy rains in a day or two due to low pressure.

Today I am sharing a simple Thank You Card. This card was made in one of my classes for demonstration. I usually prefer easy to make simple cards.

The base of the card is a very light pastel coloured card stock. I have used floral printed paper from JAGS 

I love this light coloured floral printed paper.But only thing is the size of print is big and can only be used for bigger sized cards.At least that is what I feel. 

For the insert, I have used two different shades of green coloured paper. Actually the colour of the top layer of the insert matches the floral printed paper. But here in the photo it looks a different shade.

This card has a plain white envelope.

Hope you like this card. Watch out for more...

Materials Used:

• A4 size light yellowish green pastel coloured Card Stock
• White Card Stock scrap
• A4 size JAGS printed paper pack W&M CPPS15
• Sizzix Framelits Circles and Labels Stitched Dies
• Sentiment Stamp
• Black Ink
• Light Green Ink
• Glue, dimensional Dots
• Light Green papers of two different shades for insert
• Corner Punch Flower design

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Easy Card

Hello !

Today I am sharing with you a simple and easy to make card. This was made in one of my craft classes.

It is one of those cards made when we need one urgently and don't have time.

This card has simple white insert and white envelope.

Watch out for more on my blog...

Materials Used:

• A4 size White card Stock + scraps
• Printed Tape
• 3D sticker
• Sentiment Stamp
• Black and Orange Pigment Inks
• Bracket Border Punch
• White Paper for insert
• Glue and dimensional dots

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Thank You Card

Hello there!

Hope you are all doing well and busy enjoying summer holidays.

The day temperatures for the past two days have been on the rise and unbearable. This is only April yet. I don't know how the coming days will be.

Here is one more thank you Card. Actually I am making a lot of thank you cards. So you will see more of them.

This is also a very simple and easy to make card. 

I have folded  an A4 size white card stock in half, then glued a green card stock layer on it and finally a layer of the printed paper over them. I love the rangoli like design on the printed paper. 

Then I cut the label shapes using the Tattered Lace Essential Dies-Decorative Rectangles(one of my favorites) from green and white card stocks and also embossed them with a smaller sized dies. 

I stamped the sentiment on the white die cut label and used dimensional dots to adhere both green and white labels to give it a little dimensional effect.

This is the inside of the card. I have used a light green(we call it pista colour) paper, cut all the four corners with border punch and glued over dark green colour paper before using it as an insert in the card.

The envelope is plain white colour. I could not make a matching envelope as it needs paper bigger than A4 size which I don't have. 

Materials Used

• A4 size white card stock
• Green colour card stock
• Tattered Lace Essentials-Decorative Rectangles
• A5 size green printed paper
• Sentiment Stamp
• Green pigment Ink
• Dark and light green colour papers for the insert
• Border punch medium size
• Glue and dimensional dots

Hope you like this one. Watch out for more...



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Thank You Card

Hi friends!

Hope you are all doing well. 

I am busy with the Navaratri till 14th.

Finally final exams of all my students for the last academic year are over. I am relaxing a bit before I begin my summer classes and prepare for next academic year and new students.

Day temperatures are high here. All my family members were down with seasonal fever and recovering. Because of the temperatures, I have to take extra care of my little garden. 

The temperatures drain away your energy. I am only active during early morning and the daily chores through out the day especially cooking is becoming more and more difficult to deal with.

Any ways, I was able to steal a little time for myself and my crafts during all this exam season and festival time.

So I will be sharing them with you. My only problem is taking photographs and preparing the list of materials I have used for creating them.

Here is a simple card half made some time back, when I did not have much die cutting resources.  With some finishing touches I finally finished it.

This is a very simple card. 

I have folded an A4 size white card stock into half and used as base. Added a strip of printed paper and then the dies cuts-scalloped circle and circle with the sentiment.

I could not resist adding the little vine pattern. I had to draw a bit with green gel pen on the pattern as it did not stamp out clearly. 

This is the inside of the card. I have used an off-white tick paper. The border has been punched, only in the corner, using small border punch and to highlight the punched design, I have stuck a glitter tape under the punched out border. 

That's all. The envelope for this card is plain white one.

Hope you like this one.

Materials used:

• A4 size white card stock
• Printed Paper A4 size-Stripes
• White and brown card stock scraps
• Sizzix Framelits-Circle scallop 
• Essentials by Tattered Lace-Circles
• Small Border Punch
• Sentiment and vine Stamps
• Brown (brownish Orange?) and Green Inks
• Copper coloured Glitter Tape
• White A4 size thick paper for insert
• Glue

Watch out for more. There is lot to share with you...

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Thank You Cards

Hi Friends!

I thought I have finished all my social engagements and so I can take some well needed break and rest properly. But no. I have received some invites which I cannot decline.

I am so very tired and need rest before I start cleaning up and preparing for Pongal festival. Alas can't do that till some more time. I still have some work left in my garden which I need to finish off before the temperatures start rising. as of now it is cold-all time low I think. But soon the temperatures will start rising for spring and then the summer.

Well here is one thank you card I would like to share with you today:

The base is white card stock. The layer on the top is coral or Bitter sweet(?) as per my search on a site. I don't think the colour is properly reflected in the picture . But then my photographic skills and editing skills are very limited.

Some time back, I bought some paper doilies of different sizes and designs in a sale. It was dead cheap. Well, I have been itching to use these for some time.

I am making a bunch of thank you cards and one of them is the one above. Since I have to make a lot of them, I want them to be simple and easy to make.

The rose is made of satin ribbon, ready made with leaves. I have got an assorted pack with different colours. So I used the matching one here.

Materials Used:

• A4 size white card stock
• Bitter Sweet/Coral colour Card stock
• Paper Doily
• Satin ribbon rose with leaves
• Butterfly sticker
• Self adhesive half pearls
• Sentiment and matching Ink
• Glue

So what do you think about my card? If you like it please do send in your comments/suggestions. Please share the link and like my page on FB.

Thanks a lot. 

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