Inspired

It is always nice to meet new people and interact with them. I often learn something from such experiences. Today, at my favorite craft store, I met a lady who makes vintage jewelry. We had a good chat, exchanged ideas, laughed like we had known each other for a long time. What a precious time. So I came home more inspired than ever to make my cards, and here is one of them.

 The pictures below will show you what you will need to make this card.

Green cardstock to make the card. Emboss the front.

A piece of  dark pink cardstock. Notice I rounded the corners.

A piece of off-white cardstock.

  





Use a brown coloring pencil and scissors to distress the vanilla cardstock.

                                It should look like this

Stamp the flowers and the sentiment phrase on it.

              





            Make a bow with natural twine.

Adhere everything to the card. Add a flower and a pearl to the bow.

Add a detail and a message inside.

I hope you enjoy making a card like this one as much as I did. Thank you for checking out my blog.

Vanias Reed        

The Reason

This is the reason why my family and I celebrate Easter. I hope you do too because without a personal relationship with the Son of God there is no hope for the future. He is alive! He cares for you and me A WHOLE LOT!

You can  emboss the card itself.

Printed message and stamped flowers inside.

There is no greater love.

 Celebrate Easter because Jesus died for you on the cross, but He defeated death and is alive and well. He loves you more than words can say. 

Happy Easter

Vanias Reed      

A Girly Easter

What am I going to wear on Easter Sunday? Have you ever asked that question? Yep. We all have, haven't we? And we have also rushed to a store to buy a new outfit, preferably a new dress that reminds us that it's Spring. How about "dressing" a card for Easter?

This is another card you can use for different occasions.

 You will need a white card, pink paper, and green polka-dots paper. You will also need to  emboss the pink paper.

You can save this pictures in your computer to print them as a pattern for the dress. 

Then use the pattern on the polka-dots paper.

Adhere the self-adhesive lace behind the polka-dots paper before you fold it. Accordion fold the skirt to one side first, then to the other.
Tape the top to the skirt. Add a ribbon and a bow with a pearl.

 

              


                                   Add the detail inside

 

Add embellishments and a 
sentiment phrase at the bottom.

And you have your card "dressed" for Easter Sunday, and ready to go to a special lady. 

Vanias Reed         

A Victorian-Style Easter

The other day, when I got back home from a craft store, my husband took a look at two sheets of the paper I had bought and told me they had Victorian style colors. That gave me the idea to create this card. Let me know what you think about it.

 

 Like we usually do, here are the pictures showing how to make this card.

First make a white card.

You will need white, light pink, dark pink and flower patterned  cardstock paper.

Self stick pink lace as seen on the left. You can use a darker shade of pink if you prefer.

Adhere the dark pink and the patterned paper to the light pink one. Adhere the ribbon where the two pieces of paper meet.

 

Add another piece of lace - this time up-side-down - and a green strip of twine in the middle. Add the embellishments and sentiment phrase.

Add the detail inside

A message is a good idea too.

Now you have a kind of Victorian Easter card to give to someone you love.

Vanias Reed

Spring Through the Window

Today it rained here in Central Florida. But now the rain is gone, and I hear birds singing. How beautiful God's creation is! And it was His creation that inspired me to make this card.

                    Here are the pictures with the information you'll need.

 Dark purple, white and a lighter shade of purple cardstock paper

An embossed piece of white cardstock paper.

A die-cut window. This one was white and I colored it brown. I also used a flower stamp and colored the background light blue to look like the sky.

TIP

After you are done with a sheet of stickers, do not throw away that hard plastic the stickers come on. You can use it for several things, including a window "glass" like the one on this card. 

 

Add a bird in a cage. I used a silver pearl embellishment to look like the cage is hanging on something.

Add the sentiment

Your card is ready to be given to someone special. 

Vanias Reed