Kittycheers - Mojo Madness #107

Been visiting the parents for the weekend, needed to get a tripod for my photo course next week, but no luck there, couldn't find the one that they were supposed to have. Good trip anyhow, but a short one, so the kitties stayed at home. I liked the layout in Mojo Madness #107, so I decided to use it for a joint thank you/ instructions card for a friend who was kindly taking care of the beasts.

Stamps: Stampcraft / Woodware 'Tiny Phrases'
Papers: BG 'Blush'
Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots'

THanKs

I love these text stamps by Heidi Swapp, they're so quirky that you don't need much else for a nice card. In fact, they scream for attention, so cluttering the design with too many details just doesn't seem to work.

I first stamped the greeting using ink pads from Colorbox Cat's Eye Queues Rainbow Sherbet and Baby's breath plus Fluid Chalk Wisteria. Then I stamped the greeting with Versafine Onyx Black on top of the earlier texts. I attached a pink flower brad to bring a bit of 3D element to the card and to enhance the pink text which was least visible. I inked the edges with wisteria ink, backed the image with patterned paper and attached onto a card blank, leaving rather wide white edges.

T-h-a-n-k-s

When my regular stash dealer (I truly am an addict...) closed her shop, I felt I had to make a thank you card for her. For some reason, I have hoarded a nice collection of butterfly peel-offs but I rarely use them. I think I should do these 3D-butterflies more often.

I cut poppy paper to fit a normal card blank, then took a slightly longer piece of pink ribbon and secured the ribbon ends behind the paper. I mounted the paper onto the card blank, jamming the ribbon ends in place at the same time (I think there might be a piece of double sided tape under the ribbon as well). I punched small circles from pink and light green silk paper and glued the letter stickers on them. The glue on the stickers was terrible and the paper tried to peel its layers, not a good combo, so I had to use glue stick. I fixed the letters onto the ribbon with foam pads. I glued the butterfly peel-off onto pink vellum, cut it out, folded the wings a bit and fixed to the card.

A thank you note

I don't often make thank you cards, somehow making them in batches after every birthday or christmas for every gift giver seems artificial. However, on special occasions I do make them. This one was a real quickie.

I glued a strip of flocked pink paper in the middle of the card blank, then took a ready-made mini envelope embellishment and fixed that on the strip. The mini note card in the envelope had once been pink and said "For you", but it had faded badly and was now almost white without a trace of the text, only faintest whiff of pink on the edges and so perfect for my purposes: I spelled my thanks on the mini card and slipped it back in the envelope.