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Ninjago birthday cards

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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My son and his friend are obsessed by Ninjago Lego.   So I’ve had to come up with a quick and simple Ninjago birthday card for all those birthday parties! 

  
This is all thanks to the kind folks at http://www.halegrafx.com who have some free downloadable Ninjago eye packs. 

I downloaded the 3 and 5 inch sheet, cut out the 5 inch eyes and stuck them on some red cards (my son loves the red ninja but they would work equally well for the other coloured ninjas!). 

I have a stash of red wrapping paper – voila, a Ninjago present! 

  
(Ninjago Lego inside of course!!!) 

Cute kids card

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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Another day, another kids birthday present to wrap/card to make. 

I found some spotty paper and alphabet colours in my scrap paper stash and voila:

  
All those colours make my eyes hurt, but hopefully Aston likes a card with his name on it.  

I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!

Caro 

Star Wars kids cards

23 Friday Oct 2015

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Hello

My 6 year old and all his friends are obsessed with Star Wars at present.  There are a couple of Padawan birthdays coming up over next few weeks so I’ve been looking for some quick Star Wars cards to make. 

Here they are in order of simplicity!!!

   
 
The lightsabers are made with the word window and jewellery punches.   The Death Star is a print out sized to fit my 1 3/4 inch circle punch. (I made it for this yoda card I made a few months ago). 

The next one is basically the same but with the child’s name in Star Wars font – check out the cool tool at logo54.com/movie/starwars

  

I’m not sure you can really file the next card under “quick” but it was still pretty easy! And still didn’t take more than 10 minutes.  

  
Darth Vader and Obi Wan are made from the owl punch.  Vader’s face is the owl’s vest turned upside down with some black fake pearls for eyes.  

I made the cape with the curly label punch turned on its side and trimmed off at the sides:

  
I hope you enjoyed reading this.  And here’s hoping the little Jedis enjoy them too!

Caro 

Darth Vader Fathers’ Day card

16 Friday Oct 2015

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I know, Fathers’ Day was over a month ago now, but I just realised that I never posted a picture of the card I made for Dad this year.   This only makes sense if you’re a Star Wars fan!

  
Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

Quick kid’s card

12 Saturday Sep 2015

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Hi

My son had a birthday party today and the theme was “fluoro”.  This is the card I came up with by making a background with fluoro textas and then writing the birthday boy’s name in black Sharpie over the top:

   
 
Very simple, but he seemed to like it 🙂

I think if I were going to make another one like this I think I’d use a darker background, but this is what Mr 6 picked so we rolled with it!

Thanks for reading.  

Caro x

Using up my stash – gift card holders made from envelopes

02 Wednesday Sep 2015

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If you’ve been reading my blog the past week you’ll know I’ve been working my way through my pile of spare card stock and designer series paper to make some cards using my scraps and offcuts.  

I came across some pretty strips of paper and some envelopes – perfect for making my favourite quick and easy gift card holders!

  
I did a post a while ago showing you how to make these in detail.  But these are seriously the quickest and cutest idea for gift giving ever!

Take any size envelope, fold it in half, cut the flap in half, stick down one side, decorate and you’re done!

   
    
   
A card, present and wrapping all in one cute little package!

Thanks for reading. 

Caro x

Quick and easy cards

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

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When I was rummaging through my stash of saved scrap paper the other day I came across some designer series paper I’d previously cut into the perfect shape to go on a card front.   I have no idea what I was planning to do with them originally, but a few minutes with a corner rounder punch and some ribbon and ta da!

  
At about 2-3 minutes a card, what could be easier?!? 

Thanks for reading. 

Caro x

Cards I’ve made from scraps – Using up my stash!

31 Monday Aug 2015

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Hands up if you have a box of old paper scraps, embellishments you bought in a discount bin because they’d be useful one day etc etc? I certainly do!

When I was rummaging through my stash yesterday making some cards out of punched out colouring in, I also came across a few scraps of paper, flowers and buttons I decided to turn into cards at the same time. 

Here are a few:

   
    
    
    
    
 
What have you got lying around you could turn into a quick card?

Thanks for reading. 

Caro x

Cards from colouring in 

30 Sunday Aug 2015

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Today I went to show you a few more cards I made from some colouring in some scribbles I’ve done. 

  
I cut a star out of this one and made a notecard:

  
Then made this one from the cut out mirror image:

  
I made a few from some cut out heart shapes I’d scribbled as well:

   
    
    
    
 
It’s nice taking some random scribbles and making something people will hopefully enjoy. 

Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

What to do with all this colouring in?

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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I’m pleased to report in finally starting to feel a little better! Still off work, but I’ve graduated from lying down all day to being able to sit up for a few hours at a time. Progress!!!

Today I realised how many notebooks of scribbles and coloured in pictures I have lying around the house. 

I have a lot of long teleconferences in my job. One of my favourite things to do while listening on long calls is some doodling/colouring in that my son likes to call my “scribble scrabbles”.  

  
Today I decided to make some cards out of one of my “scribble scrabbles”.  First – to my punches!  Today I used large and small butterfly punches and a small heart punch:

   
 
Tip: the small heart punch is brilliant for using up the edges from paper where you’ve needed to leave spaces between larger punches.  However it can be tricky to use the punch with very small pieces of paper!  Here’s a quick tip: put the small piece you want to punch on the sticky side of a post it note. Too easy!

   
 
 

I had a lovely time sorting through my pile of old card stock and mixing and matching with punches. A great way to use up scraps! Here are some of the results of my playing today:

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
   
It felt so nice to be making something today!

Thanks for reading

Caro