Let's start at the very beginning - Day 7

Day 7 already, I hope you are having fun. Well by now you must have hardly any of your coloured card stock left. So what can we do? Keep using the strips of course but lets make some little gift cards. I love making a pack of gift cards and then packaging them up with some envelopes.

They make a sweet little gift and I don't know anyone that wouldn't love receiving a pack of cards that they can use throughout the year. Each of these cards was sponged around the edge. The sentiment was sponged around the edge before it was adhered to the coloured mat. The banners were adhered to the back and then it was raised up on dimensionals.

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Let's start at the very beginning - Day 6

By now you may be running low of some of the card stock you have used the most. I hope you haven't thrown all the little strips out. If you are a true crafter I'm sure you have saved every little bit. Let me show you what you can do with little strips of card. I am also sponging the edges of the images before I mat them on the coloured card. The little strips of left over colours are snipped to form a banner and then layered behind the image. It is all then raised on dimensionals. I think it looks pretty spiffy.

These two have the image sponged and then adhered to the base card. The sentiment and banners have been raised up using dimensionals.  On the left Melon Mambo and on the right Tempting Turquoise. So how are you going? Are you starting to want more?

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On a roll

Well I had a productive day today. I finished creating the 3 cards for my next stamp class in March and have even written instructions for 2 of them with pictures. So make sure you keep either Wednesday 6^th or Friday 8^th free and come along for a big night.

I then wanted to stock up on some cards so here they are.

The first one was CASED but I don't know who from. If you recognise your work thank you for the inspiration. I used Tangerine Tango card and teamed it with Very Vanilla, Tempting Turquoise and Old Olive. Don't you just love the Colour Coach for helping you put colours together? I sat the Elegant Butterfly Punch on a 2^3/4 inch DSP circle. The Birthday sentiment is from an old SAB set called So Happy for You. I keep dragging it out as I love the font.

This one I had to really scramble to get things to work. I thought I had Pool Party ribbon but I must have used it all, so I got my Very Vanilla Seam binding ribbon and dragged it through the Pool Party stamp pad. Yuk, that looked dreadful it didn't look at all like Pool Party. So I decided to wash it out and "what do ya know" it came out this nice Pool Party colour. Yipee... I then wanted it to look scrunchy so I squeezed it up and then put the heat gun on it to dry it out and set the creases. I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment with Versamark and embossed it with White embossing powder. I then used a paint dauber and Pool Party ink to colour over the card. I rubbed the ink off the embossing with a tissue to make it pop.

My last card is my favourite. I have been wanting to play with this Dress Up Framelit Die for some time. Anyone that knows me and my little ladies will know how excited I was when I saw this in the catalogue. The sentiment came from the All Dressed Up stamp set. I used Early Expresso Co'ordinations card on the dress stand to get an aged look.