Fast Card Friday

The dreaded orange felt is back.  I promise there's not much of it left. Sorta.

Once again, this was a quick card that I slapped together.  It was for a friend of mine who was kind enough to send me a gift card to Meijer after I found out I am a celiac a few months back and needed to get all new (more expensive) groceries.  

There wasn't much time for digging through embellishments so I used some unlabeled orange glitter glue (it was a gift, I didn't buy any shady black-market glitter glue) to add some more texture and dimension to the piece.

Glitter glues really emphasize the handmade element of cards that I love.

The base card is from a really old (I'm talking YEARS) card kit.

Identifiable Elements:

• Orange paper- the "Melon Ball" paper pack by Colorbӧk
• Tree paper- "I Love Family" 6X6 Paper Pads by Echo Park Paper Co.

Fast Card Friday

I decided to bring back a concept that I had the first time around with this blog which is posting quick cards that can be made quickly. (I do feel it's necessary to state that these are tending to take me longer but that is only due to the lack of organization in my craft room.  It's hard to find the right button when you keep them all dumped in a shoe box...)

In case if anyone was wondering, yes, those are the same type of "Thanks" felt letters that I was using 2 years ago.  I never made it through the stash of them so I felt it was only appropriate (and a little sentimental) for me to use them in the first 5 Minute Friday of the revamp.  Honestly,  my goal is to be done with them by 2019.  The logical part of me says to get rid of them because there's only so many times I can use them before I lose what's left of my sanity, but the hoarder in me won't allow that.

I made this card as a thank you to a couple of my friends who took care of my cats while I was on vacation for a week attending Gen Con in Indianapolis.  It was a great time, but a long time so I put a little extra "something" in the card for their troubles.

I'll try to post what elements I've used when I can with these cards but this entire card was made with scraps I had around and I have no idea where they came from.  The only thing I know are the buttons, but those came from my grandmother's old sewing kit that I adopted.  

Sometimes the quickest way to crank out a card when you're in a rush is to just grab the random bits and slap them on the card stock.  

I didn't have time to adjust the lighting with this photo so I'm a little disappointed that the colors look a bit off but the general spirit is still there.

Cold Turkey #2

This thank you card will probably be one of many attempts to use up these large "thanks" felt letters.  They had come in a paper pumpkin kit a long time ago and I still haven't gotten around to using them all.  Unfortunately they are so big that there aren't many configurations that I can make with them on a normal sized card so the variation will have to be in the colors and the papers.  Hopefully I'll get through them and not feel totally sick of them.

Cards from the Hoard

Today I wanted to use up more of my extra bits and pieces I have hoarded over time so I decided to use 3 pre-made cards from a kit and make some quick and simple cards.

This card features and envelope from a Paper Pumpkin kit that I knew I'd never make or use for it's intended purpose.

This card was mostly an excuse for me to see how long my orange glitter glue that my Aunt sent me took to dry.  Turns out longer than I thought...I had to redo a couple of the swipes.

This card was an excuse to get rid of the strawberry paper.  I like the way it looks but I have little to no use for fruit paper otherwise.  That being said, if anyone finds some steak or nachos paper, feel free to send it my way!

Leaf Love

On Black Friday the Brauer girls went to a massive scrapbooking store and I found some metallic markers on sale.  I made this super simple thank you card as an excuse to play with them.  I also got to use another one of the stamp sets my mom dropped off for me!  Coloring is one of my favorite things.  I stayed in the lines pretty well!

THANKS for the Pieces

Recently I have been working on cleaning up my craft room which currently includes going through many of the Paper Pumpkin kits I have piled up that I don't want to do the actual projects for but want to keep the elements from.  I found one that has a ton of these big felt letters that spell "Thanks".  However, I didn't really care for the project that it came with so I decided to try and re-design a simple way I could use the letters on a card that would actually have a chance at being sent someday.  With a some punched scrap paper and a couple of brads strategically placed, this was what I came up with.  Once again, its a super simple card, but I think it suits the bold, over-powering letters nicely.