Thank you!

I made this card as a thank you card for some friends who we recently caught up with, but really it could be used for almost any purpose.

The card uses two different patterned papers from Kaisercraft, some pale yellow flowers also from Kaisercraft. I covered the join with some brown ribbon and set it all on some pale blue, slightly textured card. To finish, I used some pearl drops on the top half of the patterned paper to add some dimension.

Simple generic cards

These two cards are so easy to make, but in my opinion look great and can be used in so many scenarios! Think Birthdays, Get well cards, Congratulations, Thank you etc. I used both of these for birthday cards for two female friends.

To make the 'petal' shapes, I cut a square out of some Kaisercraft patterned paper and then rounded the opposite two corners using a Fiskars corner rounder. The only thing to be careful of here is to make sure that you round the right two corners so that you can position the petal with the right rotation.

For the first card, I used four different types of patterned paper from the 'Blushed' range to create four different petals. I then attached them to some shiny blue cardstock that I had run through my Sizzex Bigshot in the Quickutz Vines embossing folder.  Along the bottom, I attached some sheer white ribbon and then three small pre-cut pale pink flowers from Kaisercraft.

For the second card, I used four different types of patterned paper from the 'Empire' range of Kaisercraft paper to create six different petals. I positioned these on the card and attached a brad between four of these to help give the impression that the top four petals were part of a flower. These were positioned on some textured straw yellow cardstock that I had run through on the Quickutz Vines embossing folder in the Bigshot. For something different, I put the paper upside down so that the pattern was depressed rather than raised.

Happy birthday card

Here is a birthday card I made using some lovely patterned paper from Kaisercraft. I cut two 5 by 5 cms of contrasting patterned paper and then cut each square into three pieces by cutting from the middle on an angle to the 1cm and 4cm marks. I then swapped the middle triangles to create the pattern.

I attached the patterned pieces to some red card stock and attached the whole panel to a straw coloured card with some ribbon underneath.

To finish, I fixed a yellow flower with an orange gem in the middle.

I think this card could also be used as a get well card or a thank you card as it is nice and bright and cheerful. :)

Thank you cards for baby shower

I have just started making thank you cards for my baby shower which was two weeks ago.

I have quite a few to make so I wanted to make something that looked nice but would be easy to make. I also wanted to use the same colour scheme as the invitations that my sister made. They are gender neutral in a lovely shiny green colour paper that we found at Lincraft.

I used some plain white cards and then stuck some of the darker green paper that I had run through my Sizzex Bigshot with my Quickutz Vines embossing folder. I positioned some ribbon across the center of the card.

The "Thank You" stampe is from Stamp World (B130) that I recently purchased from Bellbird papercrafts in Blackburn. This was stamped in black ink on some plain white cardstock and then positioned on some pale green card before being placed in the center of the card.

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.