A nerdy handmade card

This is a card that I made for my nerdy husband, using the "Technologic" collection from Kaisercraft for the two patterned papers forming the background, as well as the two robots.

The tag in the bottom right corner was taken from the My favorite things "Notched Tag" stamp and die-namic set, that includes both the notched tag, the heart and also the stamp "u r my." I finished the card off with some plain orange card, some brown ribbon and some kitchen string on the tag.

I'm pleased to report that my husband loved his card!

Owl Birthday Card

This card was easy to make but visually looks quite impressive. To begin, I took a standard white square trifold card and cut off a triangle on the diagonal on the front square. I then stuck a square of lovely striped paper on the front of the second square, leaving a 5 mm border, so that a triangle of this could be seen once the card was folded.  On the front square, I then attached a triangle of contrasting green paper, again leaving a 5 mm border, and some ribbon along the bottom of the paper.

As a feature, I stamped three owls which I then coloured in copics before framing with some contrasting gold card and attaching to the front card. To finish, I attached a brad in the bottom left corner of the front square and in the top right corner of the middle square to bring the whole card together.

The recipient was very happy with the result!

Three very similar cards

For Christmas, I got a Sizzex Bigshot and recently purchased a new embossing folder. The folder is made by Quickutz and is an A2 folder called Vines. I cut one A2 sized piece in a navy blue shiny paper and ran it through the machine. I then cut it into thirds to use in each of the cards to the left.

I also used the Bigshot to cut the bottom left corner shape out of gold shiny paper. (A Sizzex brand small die).

I then stamped three different messages - "Happy Birthday", "Thank you" and "Get well" - on white card which I then stuck on the same gold paper  as the corner die.

To join together, I placed the blue embossed paper and some stripy patterned paper on some standard green cardstock. I then covered the join between the blue and stripy paper with some ribbon before sticking the message in place and positioning the corner die.

These cards could be used for either females or males given the colour combination and the design.

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.