Graduation Season

Hi everyone!

The month of May seems to herald in the season of celebrations and today I'm featuring graduation cards! I just love Deena's Collage Sheet - Victorian Bicycles and thought I'd be a bit whimsical and create cards with these wonderful vintage images.

You will receive six different images on an 8.5" x 11" sheet -- each approximately 3.5" high and done in a sepia tone.

I chose two different images for my graduation cards -- a male and female bicyclist. After printing out the downloadable, I cut out the images I wanted to use. 

Starting with the male cyclist image, I backed it onto dark brown cardstock and adhered it to a stone-colored card. I printed out the inspirational message and backed that with the same dark brown cardstock. The "journey" tag was stamped in black ink and done in vintage style. The three gemstones give this card a bit of celebratory bling!!

For the female cyclist image I used the same technique, using black cardstock as the frame for the image and inspirational message.

I just loved using these vintage images for my cards -- these images are perfect for many more projects, I'm sure!!

Please visit the Ewe-N-Me Printables website for your inspiration!

Thanks for visiting!

Beth

prettybyrddesigns.blogspot.com

Cousin Elmer Shaker Card

When I spotted this file it made me giggle so I decided to play with it.

 

You can find this cute little guy here: Ewe-N-Me Printables. You get 1 Seed Packet Envelope per page and you can print up as many as you want to.

 

I used my We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool to create a shaker card. After cutting my card base I cut out Cousin Elmer's picture and sized my shaker sleeve to fit the image. I didn't take any pictures of my work with the Fuse but all I used it for was to seal up the edges of the sleeve.

 

Elmer's image is inside the sleeve along with some seed beads for shake. I also added a ladybug brad to Elmer's hat.

 

The entire sealed shaker sleeve is glued to the front of the card base. I added some jewels and my note card was complete. 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look.

Sue
www.suek86401.blogspot.com

Gift Tags with Flowers for Mother's Day

Welcome to the month of May! I think the thing I love most about this month is flowers. All of sudden everything is in bloom and beautiful colors abound.

Today I'm featuring a set of gift tags I created with Deena's Bottle Cap Images - Mother's Day Flowers. The colors are gorgeous!!

There are six different floral images and you will get six of each -- for a total of 36 images on a page! The size of each round is a bit larger than one-inch.

I printed the downloadable on white card stock and punched out four of rounds using my 1-1/4" punch -- this leaves a bit of white around the edges, but I like the way they pop against the background of the tags.

I used four manila tags and lightly sprayed them with turquoise mist. When they dried, I stamped them with botanical images also in turquoise. To add a bit of contrast, I stamped "carte postale" in sepia colored ink to give them a vintage feel. I also distressed the edges of the tag in the sepia color.

For lack of a better word, I "scrunched" each round to give it a distressed feel and embellished each with a brad. I attached each bottle cap image to a tag and for a finishing touch tied a strip of turquoise seam binding to the top. The flower colors match perfectly with the turquoise accent!

These tags would be a lovely addition to a Mother's Day gift box or gift bag! The flowers images are so bright and cheery!!

For more bottle cap images, visit the Ewe-N-Me Printables website -- you are sure to be inspired!

Have a wonderful Mother's Day everyone! See you next time!

Beth
prettybyrddesigns.blogspot.com

Small Folding Pocket Card

Today I have a new card design that has a small pocket to hold bookmarks, gift cards, whatever you can fit into it. I need to thank my pen pal Lana in Montana (I like the way that rhymes) who sent me one of these cute little cards and the directions for the card. I had already chosen this file to work with for the week:

 

You can find this file here: Ewe-N-Me Printables. You get 2 of each hang tag for a total of 6 hang tags per sheet and you can print as many as you need.

 

 

As you can see, I played around with these a bit trying a few different techniques. For more pictures showing the insides of the cards and directions for cutting your paper and assembling your card, please stop by my blog Sue's Paper Crafts. I want to make more of these but will plan it out a bit better trying to better match my papers, inks, etc. with the bookmarks, hang tags, whatever I decide to use.

 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look.

 

Sue

www.suek86401.blogspot.com



 

Birthday Cards with Watering Can Hang Tags

Happy Monday, everyone!

Glorious spring weather has finally arrived and is finally sticking around! Yeah! Aside from paper crafting, I don't think there's anything better than being outdoors and enjoying all the beauty of nature. I mean, what can be lovelier than all the springtime blooms?

So, with spring flowers on my mind, I decided to create a couple of birthday cards using Deena's Watering Cans Hang Tags. Aren't they the perfect images for this time of year?

You will get three different images with this downloadable and will also receive them in two different sizes -- for a total of six images to a page. For my birthday cards, I used the smaller images which measure 2.5" x 3.25" in size. I printed them on white cardstock and then cut them out -- doesn't get much easier than that!

I used white cards as my base and layered each one with a panel of green and white polka-dotted paper. The green color is really cheery and is a wonderful background for those tags!

After adhering the tags to each card, I added embellishments to each. For this card I attached a green wooden flower and a "birthday wishes" panel.

I added a black and white ribbon to this card, which gives it a touch of country charm!!

These cards were so much fun to create! The watering cans and flowers were the perfect theme for cheery birthday cards!

Deena has an amazing assortment of downloadable hang tags, so be sure to visit the Ewe-N-Me Printables website here! You're sure to be inspired!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Beth

prettybyrddesigns.blogspot.com