One beautiful picture on three cards.

These beautiful cards were made as a last minute gift for a dear friend on her 80th birthday. She wanted lavendar cards with flowers. So this is what I came up with using my 3D papers. (My favorite color is purple and I wanted so badly to keep them for myself.)

You can use your cursor to "click" on each photo to see the detail better. The top card has paper piercing done on the bottom left. Very elegant! On the card above, I used gems.

Post-it-notes Stands

These bright, colorful gifts sit on your desk.

They were made as teacher gifts for the end of school. Each one comes with a matching gel pen. The post-it-note pad reads: with love. Each of the girls got to sign their name before wrapping the gift to give away:)

The quote reads "The best things in life aren't things at all."

3D papers

In early spring, I found these great 3D papers and started using them! I love them. They are to be stacked 2-6 layers on top of each other. But since that makes the card too thick (for my tastes) I separate the layers and make several unique cards individually:)

I'll share the other flower sets later.

Enjoy.

Sleep over Invitation

It's birthday party time once again and Kimberly wanted to have a sleep over. So, I had seen this card idea months before and wanted to use it for the invitations. Each little girl had their own hairstyle along with her pillow and teddy bear:) Inside the sleeping bag was the invitation. It was a lot of fun to make all the pieces. I borrowed a Cricut machine from a friend and spent a lot of time searching for just the right "sleep over" outfit!! I had matching slippers to go with the pajamas, but then you couldn't really tell what she was wearing. The girls had the best time getting their invites in the mail that week:) How great. Kimberly sent out sleeping bags again for her "thank you's".

Special Valentine's delivery

One of Courtney's girlfriends takes her school classes via the internet. So, when all the abundant snow came this winter and all the children from public school had "snow days", Kathryn was still doing her work at home! SHE didn't think this was very fair. What 6 year old would?? So, I made her a Valentine's mailbox and my girls put valentines in it to surprise her. We understood that she wouldn't be having a Valentine's party like they would either. Kathryn was thrilled to see it when we took it to her. What a fun project! I've also made these mailboxes for each of my sister's families and Grandmommy. (Each were monogramed and filled when delivered.) That way each grandchild and grandparent can make and send Valentines to each other every year:) How SWEET!!

For the future Young Woman

One of the Young Women leaders in our ward was having her first girl. So I made this card for all the YW to sign for her. You can imagine it filled with 25+ names and well-wishes...it was beautiful!

From Hawaii

I've been attending a monthly card group since Kimberly was born. Out of the 15+ members, I'm the only one with children at home. Anyway, one of the ladies does a lot of traveling and went on a cruise to Hawaii. Of course, when you travel, it is a known fact that you will be making stops at any craft stores along the way. And she stopped into one in Hawaii. The shop didn't have ANY samples up...so, my friend suggested that OUR club make some for the shop! Well, my friend got to come home with free "Hawaiian" stamps (for her) and WE got to make the beautiful sample cards to send back.

These are the 5 cards I designed for the shop, with the stamps I borrowed.

As a wedding gift...

Well, for some of us, as newly weds we don't know the right thing to get our spouse. So, I made this card set as a gift for our Primary President when she got married. Now she has her holidays and HIS birthday covered...for the year. I wish "I" had a set like that;)

Most of these were in color sets of 4. The last card I made and signed with a matching pen as a keepsake.

MY personalized stationery

I made this card to go with one of the teacher's gifts at the end of school. I had never made a monogramed card with MY name before...it was sooo cool:) Ha ha ha. The things we get excited about!

Father's Day card

When I made this card for my Dad, I made sure to stamp "RELAX" on the inside. Boy, I'm glad I did because he didn't want anything to do with a lawnmower that day! "Happy Father's Day Dad."

Desk Gifts

This spiral notebook was made with fun paper. I even added some shiny gems to the bottom. I love adding tabs on the side too. It puts just that extra touch. The flowers are one of my favorites to make...Dahalia folds. Enjoy!

I used more of my new paper with these desk calendar/note pads. They were made with plastic photo frames that were laid down (so they'd sit upright on a desk). Kimberly even personalized them with a "miss you" note for her 2 teachers:) Perfect addition!

This covered notebook with pen was a teacher gift I made with some of my new paper. It was very time consuming in that I had to adjust the measurements from a post-it note size to this notebook size. I was thrilled with the finished product. I also made 5 matching monogramed cards with envelopes. Very nice!

Borrowed images.

What a great way to use the same image on so many different cards! It makes them all look sooo unique. Try it...share your images with others while stamping theirs and see what you can make:)

I used the same image, but with different paper and colors. What do you think? I sent these out for Valentine's day. The chocolates look good enough to EAT! Don't you think? I even used scented markers which gave an added temptation:) Too bad they weren't edible!

Every few months at my stamp club, we share our stamps. These are some of the images I stamped off a couple times so, I could color in later and make a card. This card was sent to my mother-in-law. I really liked the image of the young girl...it reminds me of MY girls! Hope you like it.

Mommy-to-be Cards

Both my sisters have different taste, so that being said, I had to make Amy a different (Baby Boy) card!

This was a card I made my sister Nicole who was having identical twin girls in the late spring.

Tinkerbell Pipkin

Yesterday, one of my friends came over for me to teach her how to make a Pipkin.

I hadn't made one for Courtney yet, so decided she'd get this one!! It turned out really nice:) The top says "NEVER GROW UP". I am using a scrap to make her a bookmark later.