Baby Girl

Today we are pausing our Valentine's Day projects and making a card we haven't made yet:

A Baby Shower card 

You will need:

A polka-dot embossing folder, a bottom for embellishment and a couple of cutting dies like the ones below.

First cut the brown cardstock paper for a 4" x 6" (10cm x 15cm) card.

Emboss the pink paper and cut it 3.1/4" x 4.1/4" (7cm x 10.5cm)

Cut the brown paper with polka dots 3.3/4" x 4/1/4" ( 2.5cm x 10.5 cm)

Tape them together

Paste the brown ribbon and bow where the two pieces of paper meet.

Using a glue dot, put the embellishment on the bow and, and using the die cuts you made, glue the sentiment phrase on the embossed paper. Paste everything on the card.

Don't forget to add a detail inside.

Butterflies die cuts made with punchers

I had so much fun making this card. Hopefully you will too because one of the great things about creating something is being able to use your imagination.  Relax and enjoy your creation. 

Vanias Reed     

Valentine's Day

 Today, driving home from the school where I teach P.E., I was thinking on how much I'm enjoying sharing my ideas with you.  So here is another card for Valentine's Day.
  I hope you enjoy making it as much as I did.

You will need paper to make a 4"x 6" (10cm x 15cm) card:

I like this color palette

 

Hearts embossing folder

Raffia Strings

Make a bow with the raffia strings

Glue the raffia strings ends on the back of the green paper before you paste it to the brown card.

First idea for detail inside

Second idea for detail inside

 Happy early Valentine's Day

by Vanias Reed     

 

Another Gift Wrapping Idea

You saw the previous wrapping technique and are thinking, "what if I have a much bigger box?" You still can do it. Just fold the paper in larger strips.

Here is another way to fold the wrapping paper for any box size:

Just follow the steps shown in the pictures below

 Make sure the paper covers the top of the box, and then secure the paper in place with tape.

Fold one side of the paper diagonally leaving enough paper to cover the side of the box.

Accordion fold the paper covering the top of the box.

It should look like this.

Add your decoration and a gift tag - preferably handmade too.

 All done. 

Remember that the time you invest wrapping a gift is a time invested on saying, " you are special to me."

by Vanias Reed    

Gift Wrapping

A gift should be something we choose thinking on how the other person will react. We should always invest time, not necessarily money, to find or make that one present that will make them smile. Then we should invest more time on wrapping the gift to let them know how special they are. 

Here is today's example

and a sequence of pictures showing the directions:

 

Secure the paper in place with a piece of tape.

Turn the box around

Accordion fold the paper several times

It should look something like this inside

A piece of tape will  hold the folding in place

Turn the box upside down to fold the paper on the sides

The sides after glued.

This gift is from our son to my husband, so he picked the sticker he wanted to put on the tag.

Photo Corners as Gift Tag holders 

 

Decorate  your gift with a ribbon or two - as shown in the picture, a gold over blue- and a special detail.

 

 I know my husband will like this one a lot. 

Vanias Reed      

Football Card

Tomorrow is my wonderful husband's birthday. He is a great man, and I love him very much. He is also a Michigan football fan, so here is the card I made for him.

It is a 5" x 7" card, with blue cardstock paper, football field paper, a football sticker and a strip of yellow cardstock paper with "Happy Birthday" stamped on it. I printed the words Michigan (I downloaded the collegiate font), cut them with a precision pair of scissors and pasted them on the blue paper.

Stamp

I find it very important to have a detail inside the card.

Not complicated. Simple actually. But I'm sure my husband will love it. 
When you make a card, make it thinking of the other person's reaction and you will do a great job, I'm sure.

 

 by Vanias Reed    

A Manly Valentine

What would a man think if, instead of a card full of pink butterflies and shiny hearts, we made a card like this one for him?

Let's make it?

Here are the directions for a 4in x 6in card (10cm x 15cm. 
Have fun.

 You will need

   1. Red cardstock paper

 2. Paper that looks like wood.

 3. Punchers

Corner punch

Small circle punch

Medium size heart

Small size heart

4. Eyelets, eyelet setter and a small hammer.

5. Twine

 Now all you have to do is measure and cut your cardstock paper, your wood- like paper and the twine. Then punch the hearts, paste them on each other and punch a hole in them for the eyelet.  Look at the next picture for more directions.

The twine should be glued in the back of the wood-like paper before you paste the paper on the red cardstock.

6. Print the sentence "wood you be my valentine?" using a font that resembles wood ( I used one called Pinewood that I downloaded for free). Cut the sentence in two strips. Cut the edges of the strips as shown in the pictures, and paste them on the top and the bottom of the card. Use the embelishment of your choice.

 

Is it a manly card or what? Let me know what you think about this project. Thanks.

Vanias Reed