April Cards

Sorry I missed everyone at card club Thursday night. It was a long month for me. I made this get well card for Phil's cousin who was sick in the hospital. Hopefully no one will send it out as I did and find out that it arrived two days after the person passed away like we did. Hence my next card, it was so hard to think up an idea for a sympathy card and I wanted to have it made quickly. I missed card club because Phil was off to San Diego for the funeral; hopefully next month will be a better one.

March Cards

The cricut machine and I have come to an understanding. Letters are much easier to glue with a sticker maker than with a glue stick (thank you so much Michelle for that wonderful Christmas present!). I needed an engagement card for Grace's teacher, so made this (the words are from a cute card I saw online), and thought I would make more for card club. It opened from the middle; lifting the top up and the bottom down. Love the paper, although scanning it does not do it justice!

We needed lots of thank you cards for all of the friends & family in California. You cannot see in the scan that there is chalk spread over the white to match the ribbon and the flowers are stamped brown and orange to match the ribbon as well. Not my favorite card.

February Cards

In these cards I finally got to dip into my huge stash of ribbon & use some up! I think I'm getting the hang of this and trying to be creative in my efforts.

January Card

Getting ready for Valentine's day . . . I punched a hole in a white card with a heart punch, then used red & white fabric on the backside (with felt layered inside) in a quilted effect. I stamped the words this time - but they didn't scan so well!

December Card

Inside view: The star is embossed and I used pencils to color it in.

November Cards

Here is my first attempt at card making. I was pretty ambitious and wanted to impress the group! This was not a standard sized card, so it doesn't fit in any normal envelopes (a legal envelope worked). I printed the words with the computer; not stamped like many women's.

This is my second card - yes I have a Cricut machine! But I thought it was rather cumbersome for mass producing cards. It was a hassle to cut that many words out and even worse to glue them all down on the cards. I will be using it for scrapbooking only from now on I think!

I wanted to put a touch of color on the inside of this card so I cut a coordinating strip of paper and put it on the edge of the card and punched flowers from the solid blue as an accent.