Cards for a Friend

A friend from church is very ill, so a couple of weeks ago, I made a card for everyone in Relief Society to sign.  I remembered to take a picture of it, so I would have something to put on here, haha.  So you can get an idea of the size, it is a full sheet of paper, folded in half.  This card uses Baja Breeze card stock and Walk in the Park Designer Series Paper. The flower stamps are from Flower Factory.

Over the last couple of days, I've also made her a dozen other cards that she can send to her daughter who is on a mission for our church.  When she would come to stamp here, she would always make her daughter purple cards with butterflies because those were her favorites.  All of the cards have butterflies, but I did branch out a bit from the purple and use other colors.  Quite a bit of the paper I used was already cut from classes waaaaayyyyy back when......, such as this one.  I used Kraft paper for the main card, and Not Quite Navy, Parisian Breeze DSP, then card stock vellum for the butterfly.  The stamps I used are Fine Lace for the background, God's Beauty and Sassy Salutations.  

Something Extraordinary

Thursday we had our Relief Society Birthday Celebration.   We centered our theme around a video we used in the program, which had daffodils in it, so I used that on the invitations and the posters.

It turned out to be a great night, with great company, food, and the program was exceptional!  I'm especially impressed with the counselors in our bishopric.  One of them attends every RS activity we have, but both of them were there on Thursday.  The bishop's wife and I were on kitchen duty, but we didn't serve anything, or wash a single dish.  They did it all.  I've never seen anything quite like them, and they did it with a smile on their face!  :)

Valentines for Veterans

Thursday at our Relief Society activity, we made Valentines to send to the Veteran's home.  I was asked to come up with one of the four designs, and this is what I ended up with.  I had all the pieces ready to go and everyone just had to assemble them.  (This is what everyone did to save time.)  We made 100 all together.  They'll be receiving them today on their food trays!

We also decorated heart shaped cookies.  They were given those on Friday, while they were still fresh, and we've already received a letter saying how much they enjoyed them and how they brought smiles to their faces. It was a great activity!

Valentine Cookies

I made some Valentine cookies for my Primary kids today.  I'm going to let them frost and decorate one on their own.  Mistake?  Probably.  Will they love it?  YES!

RESULTS:  They absolutely loved it, and it is probably the quietest they've ever been.  I think we'll frost cookies every week!  ;)

Small Calendar

I like to cover a small calendar to keep in my church bag, because if I don't write down dates and times, I forget everything!  I found this calendar at the drugstore for only 50 cents a couple of days ago, and it is a two year one!  Usually the inside pages are just plain, but these are very nice (although the paper is pretty cheap...I don't really care about that).

I buy the ones with the plastic covers on them, so I can cover the calendars with cute background paper and decorate them up just a little so they are more my style.  Then I just slide everything back into the plastic cover.

Cut the background paper just a little longer than the calendar...as far as the length goes where it is being folded.  Does that make sense?  It needs a little extra paper when you actually fold it to get all the way around the calendar.  You might want to try it out first with a scrap piece of paper before you cut into the good stuff, then you can just take measurements off your scrap.

Decorate it up the way you want and you're done!  For the teal background, I crumpled up a piece of card stock a bunch of times until it looked and felt the way I wanted it to.  I also embossed the bird by using a Craft ink pad in a teal color, then used clear embossing powder and heated it with a heat tool.  Before that, I ran my vanilla card stock through the printer to get the "2012-2013" on the paper, then used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the bird in the perfect spot.

Things Remembered

We recently had a meeting with our Primary teachers at church.  I was elected/forced/volunteered/nominated....something to that effect, to make the invitations.  I find this kind of thing fun most of the time, but had a hard time coming up with something that I felt like went with our theme of "Things Remembered" well.  Still not sure I did, but it's done now! 

The heart from this card comes from the Polka Dot Punches set.  I think it looks great embossed!  To emboss it in the exact color I wanted (Sahara Sand to match the printer ink on "Things Remembered"), I inked up the stamp in Versamark first, then directly onto the Sahara Sand ink pad, then the paper.  Next I poured clear embossing powder over it and applied the heat tool.  Using the Versamark ink pad (a clear, sticky ink pad) and clear powder this way, you can make any colored ink pad into an embossing pad.

I'm not sure how many cards I've made in the last month, but it's over 300.  My neck, shoulders and head are still feeling it!  This feeling brings back memories of why it was necessary to stop doing SU.   :( 

Thank You Cards

I made a bunch of these thank you cards to give to a friend's daughter for part of her wedding gift.  She had needed a bike stamp to go on the front of her wedding invitation envelopes.  I was able to find this one that I borrowed from a stampin' friend.  The bride has been riding her bike for years as she goes to college, therefore the bike.