Floral Photo Cards
Photo cards are a great way to share your love for photography and cardmaking. Since each photo records your personal interests or endeavors, each card is as unique as the image you capture. Ribbon and color-coordinated paper flowers are used as a common embellishment for each card, tying all three together in a simple but effective manner.
Kick Back Invitation
A great photo sets the tone for this fun beach or pool party invite. A brightly colored beach towel captures the essence of summer and partners beautifully with the striped patterned paper. A nice finishing touch is the smiling silver sun charm, reflecting the silver toe ring in the photo.
Flights of Fancy
Metallic and soufflé pens, glitter, and silver peel-off stickers all make stunning contributions to these colorful and cheery thank you cards.
Funky Purse and Shoe Cards
Style is everything! Bold, bright, and funky, this set of delightful cards is the perfect choice to send to your most fashion-conscious friends.
The Numbers Game
Finding an appropriate card for “tweens” can be difficult at best. The birthday number cards featured here are playful in spirit, yet subtly acknowledge a young person’s growing maturity.
It’s All Happening at the Zoo
A gaily dressed giraffe, lion, bear, and zebra gleefully dance across birthday cards and a cheerful banner, singing sentiments of the day…Happy Birthday!
Oh Boy!
Whether you’re sending Congratulations to a young man graduating school or for a newborn baby boy, this little card has it all: color, flair, and a great sense of style!
 Garden Greetings
Pre-assembled embellishments like the turtle and dragonfly featured here make this sweet little card simple to make, and you can easily add your own personal touches by hand doodling around the edges of the garden critters and card front as shown here.
"Toad-ily Green"
Designer Cathy Schellenberg easily recycled a small thrift store find into a sweet notepad box filled with mini greeting cards suitable for all occasions. Still in a thinking “green” mode, she hopped right into creating an entire collection of “toad-ily” delightful cards. These cards are quick, easy, and tons of fun to make for both you and your intended recipient.
Smile, Friends, and Thank You Trio
Where there’s a will, there’s a way…or better yet, “necessity is the mother of invention.” As the busy mom of two young children, designer Sarah Small needed to come up with a card idea that was fast, simple, yet still unique. Her solution: the trio of cards featured here. They’re as easy as A-B-C, as quick as 1-2-3, and the options are endless.
Seaside Wedding Collection
What could be more romantic than exchanging wedding vows with an endless view of the ocean serving as a breathtaking backdrop? Soft calls from gulls mingle with guests barefoot on the beach as a warm breeze embraces the happy couple. A special moment captured in time to be remembered forever. Designer Deborah March beautifully blends the colors of sky, water, and sand into this elegant and unique wedding card and guest book collection...the perfect choices for lovely summer brides.
 Colorful Thoughts
Carefully chosen embossed floral and Swiss dot designs beautifully enhance the card collection featured here. Stamped images of birthday cakes, vines, and a variety of flowers are first painted with watercolors (colored pencils and markers can also be used), then glittered for maximum impact. Rhinestones, ribbons, and gold borders are all subtle accents that add just the right amount of pizzazz to these lovely greeting cards.
So Many Candles Card
Bright and cheerful, this celebratory card easily crosses age and gender lines. Having a card on hand that would be suitable for those “oops…almost forgot” moments really comes in handy, and this card certainly fits the bill. Boldly colored solid cardstock and one “generic” patterned paper is all that is required. A colorful circle design was used here, but stripes, checks, or geometric patterns would work equally as well. Using glue dots to pop the matted and layered sections creates added dimension, while a complementary flower and ribbon neatly wraps everything together with colorful flair.
Inner Princess
“Pretty is as pretty does…” and this card is as pretty as can be. Several shades of pink cardstock are paired with dotted patterned paper and crowned with scalloped edges tied up in a sweet little bow.
Simply Sweet Thank You Cards and Tag
Suitable for any occasion, this sweet trio was created from leftover papers and a collection of bits and pieces saved from past projects. Keeping things simple is easy when you start with a basic design and allow for just one embellishment to claim center stage. And the sweetest part of all is that all three projects took about five minutes to make…how sweet, indeed!
Special Delivery
Welcoming a new baby to your circle of family and friends is always an exciting and special event. The cards featured here are as sweet as the new baby they’re created for.
Wedding Wishes
Simple and elegant, this wedding card showcases classic styling at its best. Diamond glitter was tastefully applied to the card front and further embellished with petite rhinestones and silver edged ribbon. It’s the perfect card to present to the perfect couple.
When a Man Loves a Woman
Contemporary or vintage? A classic image like the one featured here is timeless, and as so many fashion designers tell us, you can never go wrong with black!
Two Heart’s
Something borrowed, something blue…this sweet card expresses the love between two people in the most endearing of terms.
Birds of a Feather Flock Together Journal
Patterned paper, cardstock, canvas, balsa wood, and cork board comprise the team of great surfaces used to create this nature lover's journal. Cutting small, same size squares provides the perfect opportunity to use up or recycle all those leftover scraps in an exciting new way. Change the stamp images according to theme desired for an entirely different look. The possibilities are endless.
Paper Art Jewelry
Creating handmade jewelry need not require expensive tools, supplies, or investment of time. Artistic pieces of wearable art can be made quite simply from your scrapbook paper and cardstock supplies, and in a minimal amount of time.
Simply Circles Gift Set
Quick and easy to make, this birthday card, gift bag, and tag trio is perfect for any age group. Birthday cake and cupcake rub-ons are complete with candles so brightly lit with tiny orange “bling” circles, they appear ready to make a wish upon!
 Secret Writer
Most of us know how it feels to be at a loss for words, especially when we need to include the perfect sentiment on our handmade cards. When you’re in doubt, or simply not sure of what to say or how to say it, let our Secret Writer lend a creative hand. In this issue, we present a lovely collection of carefully selected verses for the bride and groom.
Second Time Around
These sweet containers showcase useful recycling at its best. Easy to make and fun to play with, both projects are created from powdered chocolate mix containers. The kitten purse is as cute as can be and one that any little girl would love to fill with trinkets and treasures. The bug catcher container is just that – a bug catcher. On those summer days when collecting bugs is as much fun as jumping in the pool, it serves as the perfect place to keep your catch of the day. Don’t forget to release the little critters later on. |
