Wedding Planner

A friend of mine just got engaged, and I thought she might have fun jotting down notes about her wedding preparations in this little planner I made for her, using My Timeless Template recipes holder... :-) I made my own mini notebooks to fit inside the pockets. That's something easy to slip in a bag so you can add ideas when they come to you! ;-) (as always, click on the pic for a bigger size).

Air ballons birthday

Another card with the same easy basic layout, and with another PTI set, designed to be used with buttons! I am not really a fan of sewing buttons on projects so I just colored in the holes to match my epoxy buttons.. ;-) This one is for my Dad's birthday.

Tulips birthday

Thanks to a belated birthday gift, I got some new stamps... :-p... This is vintage picnic from PTI.

The basket is paper pieced twice (used the PTI wrapping and distress ink), and the flowers once. I like that it add a little dimension but very subbtle... the image is colored with Prismacolor alcohol markers. That one was for my Mom's birthday.

Toothfairy Tin

My niece just turned 5, and I expect she will lose teeth soon... so I made her a little toothfairy box to put under her pillow... I made a little "cup" for her tooth with a prima flower and added a little pocket to leave messages to the toothfairy... I used Melanie's tins stamps set and drew the tooth by hand. I think she'll have fun with that... ;-)

Belated birthday

A simple birthday card for my niece...

Strawberry briefcase

Yet another one with the same template, this time for Naomi. I used velcro instead of ribbon to keep it closed since she isn't so crazy about tying knots! ;-)

Father's day coupon book

This is a little set I made for father's day with Naomi's help. The little briefcase is to put hubby's credit card receipts, the little booklet is full of coupons we made with Naomi. They include stuff like "one kiss anytime", "one back massage", "your favorite dish" "one afternoon nap"..etc... and i think my hubby's favorites are those 2 that I made just for him "no shopping today" (to use on the week-ends! LOL) and "no nagging today". He complained there was only 2 of each but hey, a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do!! ;-) Sorry the pic is really bad, I'm having trouble with that lately. As always click on the pic for larger view.

More briefcases...

Told you I loved this template, right?... ;-) Still have a few to make!... You can click on the pic for a better view.

Chocolates briefcase

This has to be my favorite template so far from My Timeless Templates (papertreyink.com). It's so cute and so easy to decorate afterwards... I added a little handle, to make it look more like a little briefcase. This one holds chocolates (Ghirardelli squares fit perfectly in there!) and was for the sonogram tech at my doctor's office. She was so nice during my whole pregnancy and a great support. It is so much nicer to give treats in a cute little packaging like that, than the bag they come in! :-)

Mail file holders

An attempt at being more organized, thanks to another one of Lauren's templates... ("filedwithflair", My Timeless Templates at papertreyink.com). I kept it very simple and gender neutral since we both use it... ;-) Of course it only accomodates part of the junk mail that overflows the mailbox everyday, but that's a start! :-)

Basket of chocolates

If you haven't tried Lauren's templates ("my timeless templates") yet, you don't know what you are missing, they are fun and so easy & fast to put together!!! (you can find them at papertreyink.com), and the best part is you just print them from your computer.

This one here is packapicnic, and I used it to make a basket of chocolates for my doctor's office. It's the perfect size for a big bag of Ghirardelli squares, leaving a few for you to eat while assembling the project! LOL... ;-)

Butterfly baby

A card I made for my cousin who had a little girl...2 months ago...the card hasn't left the house yet...Ooops.... This new set by Melanie is gonna be perfect for my scrapbooking pages of baby Nathan! :-D The butterfly wings are covered with flock. (Awesomely cool paper by DCWV Nana's nursery baby girl)

Teacher's giftcard holders

Not really any time for papercrafts lately...but it was the end of year and its inevitable teacher's gifts. I have to say I go the easy route. Amazon gift cards seem like the way to go, that way I am pretty sure everyone can find something they like. So I just made very simple holders with their names on it. I wanted to avoid stamping on it, aside from the name (used JustRite Stampers for that), so that they can re-use it if they want, as a little card holder (I'm sure I'm not the only one giving them giftcards! ;-)) or even to put wallet size pics. It's really nothing complicated or impressive but making that kind of little things make me happy!... :-)

That's what papercrafting is all about... :-)

Good luck birthday

This is my hubby's Grandma's birthday's card. She's from Morocco so I used a Fatma hand which is a symbol for good luck (keeps the evil eye away). The hand and sentiment are embossed with silver powder, then the hand is colored with prismacolors markers and I added a little rhinestone for the eye. The background is simply some heavy duty aluminum foil cuttlebugged. The foil is beautiful IRL! :-)

(BTW Gina K. has a tutorial about foil in Cuttlebug on Stamp tv)

Ladybug 2

This is the "reverse" card from the one I made for Naomi's birthday, I used the opposite frames.I think it will likely be my Mom's mother's day card...

For the little 'Lady Burg"

I made this card for Naomi's 8th birthday. The paper frames are done with the Nestabilities, the white background is cuttlebugged with leaves and pierced, and the ladybugs are covered with crystal effect.

Birthday bow

A birthday giftcard-holder for one of my son's teachers, to be used by the class. I wanted it to look like a gift box and unwrap like one, so I played around a little bit... :-)

One of the panels is glued to form the gift-card pocket (after being embossed with my cuttlebug), the opposite panel folds over it and is used for us all to sign the card, and the top and bottom (embossed with a diferent pattern) actually form the "gift". The ribbon wraps all around the card, just like it would around a gift box.

Floral wallpaper birthday

The last one in my "DCVW + Damask" serie, this very simple birthday card for my sister in law uses only a tiny flower detail from the stamp set as a medallion (the circle sentiment is from a Stampin'Up set) but I really loved this paper too and I wanted to keep it the star of the show... :-)

I used the leftovers of the cardstock to make a little holder for the earrings I was sending, I love it when things match!... ;-)

Simple floral birthday

When you start it's hard to stop... I used the same paper collection (love, love, love this wallpaper effects) from DCWV and "Damask" again for this simple birthday card.

Damask Thank You

A few months ago I was the lucky winner of a stamps set on the Lizzie Anne Designs blog. When I mentioned I already owned that set, Tricia (the "Lizzie part" in Lizzie Anne ;-)...) very nicely offered to send me another set instead. :-D

I chose "Damask", and I thought it was only appropriate that Tricia would be the recipient of the 1st card made with that set, so I made her this Thank You card.

I just love that card. I adore this paper by DCVW, and I thought it was going well with those stamps. The colors are very "spring" to me and it was one of those "put-me-in-a-good-mood-card".

I am pretty confident it will put Tricia in a good mood too! ;-)

(as always by clicking on the pic you'll get a giant version, this will enable you to see the details of that cool paper)...