Another Any Occasion Card

Here's how to make this card:  

-First cut your black card stock in half and fold for the base. 

-Cut out the green card stock to be just smaller than the front of the card and then rip off 

      one of the edges.  Before you glue it to the card, finish everything else on the front of 

      the green.  

-Glue the black polka dotted piece on with the top edge ripped. 

-Wrap the black and pink ribbon around the bottom and secure with glue dots on the back

       of the green. 

-I crinkled up the white paper so it looked worn and then I inked the edges of it before I

       glued it on.   

-Put the small safety pin on and tie the pink ribbon through it with your charm attached.  

      I found these cute keys to use, but you could cut something out of paper or use a 

      flower or pretty much anything.

-Glue the green paper on to the black paper.

-Use a small hole punch to punch the holes for the eyelets and insert the four eyelets.

-Use thread, twine, string, or ribbon and insert through the holes and tie them on the inside 

       of the card and you're done!

Any Occasion Card

Here's a cute card for any occasion.  Choose a paper with a design on one side and plain on the other and fold it so that the design is on the inside of the card.  Don't fold it exactly in half though, leave about one inch of the design showing along the edge.  Then I just used some flowers held together by brads and some white crinkle paper that I stamped "Just for you" on to finish it off.  For the inside of the card, I cut a piece of white paper wide enough to also show from the front and I tore the edge off to give it a worn look. 

Any Occasion Card

I love when I have a card that I can use as a birthday card, thank you card, Mother's day card, or whatever I want it to be.  All you need is two corresponding prints, a stripe of solid and a square of white.  I chalked the edges of the white square with red ink, so that the edges were a little more subtle.  Then I used a brad to hook two flowers together and I punched the brad through the white paper as well.  It's easier to be able to just glue on the white square then it is to try to glue the flower to the card.

Corresponding Cards

I always have pieces of random paper laying around from making one thing out of it, so I try to come up with ways to use it for more than one card so that my paper stack doesn't get out of control. :)

Here's what you'll need for these two cards:

                                                    2 corresponding prints

                                                    1 sheet of plain corresponding color

                                                    white/cream paper

                                                    tan/white for card base (8 1/2 x11 sheet cut in half)

                                                    ribbon

                                                    two brads

Here are the dimensions for this card:

Tan base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded in half 

Large pink square: 5 5/16" x 3 5/8"

Large cream square: 5 1/16" x 3 3/8"

Small brown & pink squares: 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Pink rectangle: 4 3/8" x 1 1/2" (cut off corners)

Cream rectangle: 3 3/8" x 1 1/8" (cut off two corners)

Stamp or print a phrase on the cream rectangle and push the brad through the end of the pink rectangle and then glue it all together a layer at a time.

This card was super easy.  Here's the dimensions for the paper:

Tan base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" folded in half 

Brown striped: 5 1/2 " x 3"

Pink print: 5 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Pink rectangle: 2" x 3 5/8"

Cream rectangle: 1 5/8" x 3 1/4"

Cut the ribbon long enough to wrap it around the paper so that you don't see any fraying edges. It's easiest to use a small hole punch to punch a hole through the ribbon for the brad to go through, or use scissors to cut a small slit.  Then, line up the bottom of the ribbon with the bottom of the brown paper and use two glue dots to secure the ends of the ribbon to the back of the brown paper.  Glue the pink paper to the tan base and then glue the brown paper with the ribbon on to the tan (which will overlap the top of the pink).  I stamped a flower on the cream, but you could use a sticker or print off some clip art.  Have fun!

 

Any occasion card

For this card you can pretty much use 

any 2 coordinating papers and ribbon

that you have on hand.  The flowered 

paper is cut in 2 inch strips and the

solid is a 1 inch strip. I cut the strips

the full length of the card so that 

they overlapped each other when

glued on. I bought a jar of multi-

colored paper flowers that I have 

been using for years . You could 

also cut out flowers from your print

and use those.  When you tie the 

ribbon on open your card flat, lay it

on a cutting board or mat and make a small slit the width of your ribbon on the spine 

of the card. Then pull the ribbon through and tie it in a bow or knot in the front.  Before

I glued my card together, to add a little something more, I pressed the front center of 

my card lightly on my ink pad and then chalked the edges of my flowers. Which means that I just rubbed the edges of the flowers over an ink pad. This adds an extra dimension. You could 

also stamp words or glue something else in the place of the flowers.

Same paper-different cards

This card was fun and fast.  I actually made 4 of them while I was at it.  For the cards you need 2 white or off-white pieces of paper, each piece makes 2 cards.  I covered the front of the card with a print and then cut 3/4 of an inch strips out of a coordinating solid, around which I put the ribbon.  The easiest way to attach ribbon is to use 2 small glue dots across the front and tape the edges onto the back.  I used the same solid the strips were made out of and some decorative scissors to cut 4 small squares. Mine are about 2 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches finished.  Then I printed off my computer the "For You" on another coordinating solid and glued it onto the square. I used 3 different types of ribbon, because that is what I had on hand and finished the cards off with some stickers.

Use pictures from an old calendar

I had one of those little desk calendars that had cute pictures on it with a little quote each month.  I decided to cut up the calendar and make it into cards.  I cut out the picture and made a frame for it and used my scalloped scrap booking scissors to cut around it.  The strip of flowers was the bottom border of the calendar.  Then I cut some paper flowers out of some crinkle paper and used some brads that I had on hand.  To make the bottom of the card I used my scalloped scissors and then my two different sized hole punches to create a pattern.  I chalked the bottom of it with my red ink pad so it would show up against the back of the card when folded and I also chalked the edges of the card to create a border all the way around.