Male birthday card

I needed a couple of quick male cards that weren't overly fancy, so I made this panel card up using some of my Kaisercraft "Prairie Lane" P445 "Pine Arbour" double-sided patterned paper. To make the card, I cut 2  5cm squares from the paper and then cut each square into three pieces by marking at the 1cm and 4cm mark along one edge, and then the 2.5cm mark along the opposite edge. I then lined up the pieces to create the pattern indicated in the card.

I stuck the card onto some "American Crafts" Yellow and some Aqua Blue card stock, and embellished with a few brads.

Red Dragonflies

For Christmas, my husband gave me the Sizzex Big Shot. It came with a few Sizzix Sizzlit. My husband picked the "Architectural Accents Set" (654470), and so with it, I made this card of red dragonflies.

The base of the card is plain white cardstock, while the embellishments and backing card were plain red cardstock. I then placed a piece of patterned card that I got from Bellbird paper arts (in Blackburn, Victoria). It complements the Kaisercraft "Flora and Fauna" stamp set well, so stamped and cut out two dragonflies, which I coloured in the my Copic marker R24. Finally, the dragonflies were "pop-dotted" onto the card so that they wouldn't become lost in the background.