Special Thank You Cards

My husband's grandmother passed away last week.  After a rainy weekend of funeral arrangements, I sat down to make some special thank you cards for some special people.  Some people really go out of their way to help during those difficult times and sometimes those general thank you cards you get at the funeral home just don't say enough.  I used my Jasmine cartridge to create the sentiment for these thank you cards.  The sentiments were cut at 2.5 inches each.  I used some precut cards.  I really liked the ones with the scallop border.  I also really like the paper I used for these cards. It is from Me and My Big Ideas and is part of their specialty cardstock collection. This cardstock has lots of nice effects.  Some of the paper I used had raised flocking.  I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch to create accents for the cards.  I also had some glittery vellum accents and paper flowers in my stash that I embellished with pearls and sequins to create a nice touch.  I stamped an additional "thank-you" sentiment on the inside of each card to complete this project.  I think the cards turned out perfect!! Thanks for looking and have a great week!    Patty

A Morning of Making Cardstock Flowers with Mom...plus a Mother's Day Card...without Mom!!

This morning I showed my mom how to make cardstock flowers.  We used the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge and paper from Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Cardstock and Pressed Petals Tropical Life cardstock pack.  The flowers were cut ranging in size from 3-5 inches and glued together using a hot glue gun.  We then added floral wire stems.  I plan to make more of these to decorate for Memorial Day at the cemetery were my grandparents are buried....as it is tradition in the south to decorate the cemetery on what we call "Decoration Day".  I have a link on an earlier blog (see archive: February) to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to make these flowers. 

This weekend, I also created a Mother's Day card.  I found these nice, little, chipboard embellishments appropriate for Mother's Day (they came from a seasonal chipboard collection that can be found at Hobby Lobby).  I used layered red cardstock with print cardstock from the Wild Asparagus pad from My Mind's Eye.  I used a scrap of brown ribbon from a box of chocolates I had received as a recent gift and I also glitzed up the card with some red sequins.  I used the Cricut Spring Holiday Cards cartridge to cut the background for the card (cut at 6 inches) and I also made small 2 inch and 2.5 inch backgrounds and layered them for my "Wishing You A Very" embellishments.  I finished the card off with some matching brown, metal brads.....Hope you like the card and the flowers.....now I am off to eat lunch with mom.