04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in Dies, Kids cards, Kids party, Thank you, Top Note
I needed to whip up some simple thank you cards for all the generous people who gave my son such amazing birthday presents. And they needed to be very simple and quick to make!
Voila!
The backing is an A4 sheet cut into fours, with some white shapes cut from the top note die. Simple stamping of an owl stamp and a thank you greeting and we’re done!
Now to get organised enough to write them!
Thanks for dropping by.
Caro x
15 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in Big Shot, Cards, Labels collection, Thank you
Hello – thanks for dropping by Caro’s Pretty Things!
I have been very lucky to have many people in my life I need to say thank you to recently. So I sat down the other day to make a few thank you cards. I wanted to do something a little out of my comfort zone and try and make some cards that would convey a little of how grateful I am to the recipients.
I used the largest image from the Apothecary Art stamp set cut out with my Labels framelits, and my embossing powders with VersaMark ink to make the stamped images really ‘pop’ off the page.
Here are the cards, I hope you enjoy.
Caro
Melon Mambo:
(I used the thank you greeting from the Simply Sketched stamp set and the tag is from the Designer Frames embossing folder)
Basic black:
Here’s a close up of the embossing:
Simple ribbon card front (stamping on the inside):
Chocolate chip and gold ink (with First Edition DSP):
06 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in Birthday, Cards, Decorative Label, General occasion, Punches, Thank you
Hello
Just a quick post today. Yesterday I showed you how to make a cut out card with a circle punch. Today I want to show you 2 cards I’ve made using the same technique but using the Stampin’ Up! decorative label punch instead. The stamped images are from the Stampin’ Up! Fancy Frames set. This is a really versatile set – if you are looking for ways to add sentiments to cards I’d really encourage you to think about this set with the matching punch. The ‘happy birthday’ and ‘thank you’ come from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments set. Another indispensable one for your collection.
This card is made with Island Indigo and Whisper White (embossed with the square lattice embossing folder). I’ve used matching Island Indigo ribbon and sponged in ink around the white layer for extra depth.
This one is made with Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White and Perfect Plum with the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder.
Here are close ups of the cut outs:
You can see I’ve used the reverse side of the polka dot embossing for something different. I used my Stampin’ Write markers to get the multicoloured image on the stamp.
I’ll let you in on a little secret with this one. See the rhinestone? It is actually covering up a small smudge in the stamped image, but I actually think it works! Someone once told me that “A mistake is just an excuse for an embellishment”. In this case, they might be right!
Enjoy
Caro x
15 Thursday Aug 2013
Posted in Big Shot, Dies, Kids party, Thank you, Top Note
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Hello!
The other day I showed you a simple layout for a quick thank you card. I needed to make some thank you cards for my little boy’s recent birthday party so we made some together on the weekend.
As it was a rugby themed party of course we had to have rugby themed thank you notes – which means we definitely needed to use Wallabies colours!
These cards are so easy to make – cut an A4 piece of yellow card in 4 pieces to make the card backs. Fold a white A4 piece of card into 4 pieces then run it through the Big Shot with the Top Note die. Hey presto – 4 lovely white shapes for a message. A thank you stamp and you’re done.
Although in this case we weren’t quite done. Mr 4 wanted them to match his rugby party so we had to find a picture of a rugby ball! I cut and pasted from a web photo into a word document. I made the image the same size as the large oval punch so we could punch out the balls. Then a whole bunch of “copy and paste” and we had enough balls for all the cards. [Actually, most of the cards. We didn’t make quite enough so we had to decide which people weren’t big rugby fans to not get a ball! I didn’t have the heart to break it to him that most people would probably fall into that category!]
Anyway, about an hour and we were done. Perfect for a 4 year old attention span as well 🙂
09 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Big Shot, Bird Builder, Dies, Kids party, Thank you, Top Note
You may have noticed a recurring theme on my blog is ‘simple’? Simple cards, simple layouts, simple tricks. As someone who works and looks after a family, I am usually pretty time poor. So simple is good. Simple works!
Here’s another idea for a simple thank you card.
I made these a couple of years ago as thank you cards for my son’s birthday party. I divided an A4 piece of card stock into 4 pieces (this is Pacific Point). I then ran some white card stock through the BigShot using my TopNote die. You can cut 3-4 at a time so it’s really fast.
I decorated this with the branch from the Bird Builder punch and a bird and thank you message from the Cheap Talk stamp set. But pretty much any thank you stamp and decoration would work.
I need to come up with some thank you cards for my son’s birthday party this year (I’m running just a little late …) I might use this idea again as it’s so simple. I’ll show you what I come up with!
Thanks for dropping by 🙂
PS Most of my posts so far have been the result of me going through photos I’ve taken of cards I’ve made over the past few years. I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had much of a chance to do anything new – other than kids birthday cards! I can’t wait to have some spare time and create some new stuff. One day!
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