Easter

Is it too early to start thinking of Easter? What do you think? In Florida the flowers are blooming, the pollen is definitely in the air, which makes us feel like Spring is in the air and Easter is around the corner. For those who are still being hit by snow storms, it probably feels like Easter is a pipe dream. Either way, I hope you like this project. If you leave in the warm climate, start planning. If you live where it is still cold, use this idea to start dreaming of Spring. 

One of the good things about a card like this is that you can always change the sentiment phrase and use it for another occasion, like a birthday for instance.

Here is the list of material and directions you will need.

Brown cardstock for card

Embossed pink cardstock smaller than the brown paper.

Glue the ends of a brown see-through ribbon to the back of the pink paper, then paste the paper on the brown card. Add a bow to the ribbon.

Add a pink embellishment pearl to the bow.

Die-cut a butterfly from the brown paper and another one from a darker pink paper. Add glitter to the body or make the body out of a glittered cardstock. Glue the pink butterfly on top of the brown one. Using 3D glue dots, paste the butterfly to the embossed paper and fold up the wings of the top one.

 The next three pictures show the details inside the card.

The reason why we celebrate Easter.

Finish your card stamping a sentiment phrase on the front. Use dark brown ink. You can also use embossing ink, brown glitter and emboss it with a heating tool.

From now until Easter, I will be posting more cards and other projects. I hope you enjoy them. Soon we'll have our contest to give away an Easter card too.

Vanias Reed      

Lego Birthday Card

After looking at the pictures of the Lego themed party, I had an idea for a Birthday card. So I decided to make it and post here for you. I hope you'll make it some day. 

Here are the directions and list of material you will need

White card

Emboss a green piece of paper with Paper Studios  polka-dots embossing folder to make the paper look like a Lego board.

Glue the ends of red and white twine to the back of the green paper. Then using three small pieces tie a knot like shown.

Glue a "Lego man" sticker on the knot( I cut this one out of a Lego box and pasted a gift sticker on it.). Add a sentiment phrase. I used the Lego font . To download it for free click here .   Adhere everything to the card.

The detail inside is a cute Lego man sticker.

What child doesn't like Lego? So even if you are not planning to have a Lego themed party, you can still make this card for a boy, or change the Lego men stickers for one from Lego friends and make it for a girl. I promise it will  be a success.

 Vanias Reed       

Lego Birthday Party

Our son loves Legos, so I decided to make a Lego themed party for his 7th birthday. It was fun making everything at home. So here are some ideas and where you can find free printables and everything else.

Wrap juice boxes with red, green, yellow and blue - Lego colors - paper. Using 3D glue dots, paste the 1 1/2 inch circles on them. They will look like Lego blocks.  To download the official Lego font click here

For the straws toppers click here

Wrap a box with strips of red, green, yellow and blue paper to hold the straws.

Save this picture in your computer to print the cupcake toppers. Use a 2" puncher to cut them.

I used a silicone mold to make the Lego man with colored chocolate. You can find the mold on Ebay, Amazon or Lego stores

For the banner I used the Lego font size 500, made a yellow line around each letter, and glued them to red cardstock.

To print the water/ soda labels click here

For the party favors I bought small gift bags, punched 1 1/2" circles from paper with the same color as the bags and glued them on the bags using 3D glue dots. I also made tags for the bags with the guests names on them using the Lego font. You can find some cool things to use as party favors at Lego.com

To download and print the pages for the coloring book click here

If your party has to be indoors, create games like this one. Draw a hopscotch on a long piece of white paper. Draw some lego men on it too.

 You can find more ideas for games by clicking here

Go to my pinterest page, and to the party planning pin. There you will find more links to other blogs and website full of great ideas for an awesome Lego Party.

Vanias Reed         

A Card to Remember

We are going to make this card using a dryer sheet. Yep, you read it right. I said dryer sheet. This is a technique  I learned a few months ago and fell in love with. It gives the card a dazzling look. 

 Let's make it together?

Material needed and directions below

A well used, and I mean used and reused, dryer sheet.

Give it a quick ironing

 Black and white cardstock paper to paste on a white card.

A wedding or anniversary stamp for the center of the card.

A craft knife and a ruler to cut the dryer sheet the same size as the white paper. Detail stamps for the corners.

Spray adhesive

Fine "snow" glitter

Spray the dryer sheet with the adhesive and adhere it to the white paper smoothing it with your hand. It should be very sticky.

Put glitter on the dryer sheet. Take the excess off by tapping on the back of the white paper.

It should look like this

Glue a white see-through ribbon with a bow to the front of the card.

Add a gemstone to the bow

Stamp a detail inside.

 Unfortunately the pictures don't really show the difference the dryer sheet makes. The effect is amazing. Make one. I promise you won't regret.

Vanias Reed         

My Valentine

The other day, when my husband asked me if I were not going to make a card with a couple's silhouette, I just smiled because I already had that in mind. It's his favorite card style. So here is the Valentine's Day card I made for my husband. I hope you like it. He sure did.

For this card you will need 2 die-cuts: one of the silhouette of a couple, and one of a park pole with lamp as shown below.

You will also need a white cardstock paper to make the card, and a medium dark blue piece of cardstock 1/2-inch smaller than the white paper.

Use tree stamps and black ink for the trees. Just press the stamp on the ink pad once for the first tree; you want the other two or three to have the "fading" look to give the card a dimension.

Look how the tree in the middle looks behind the other trees.

Use a white pen to make stars on the blue paper, then spray adhesive to it. Notice that I have a white sheet of paper under the blue cardstock. That is NOT the card. I was protecting my desk from the adhesive.

Now you can adhere the pole and the couple die-cuts to the blue cardstock

The blue paper will be very sticky because of the spray adhesive, which is good because you are going to sprinkle it with fine glitter.

Remove the excess glitter by tapping gently on the back of the paper. Let it dry and paste the paper on the card.

Draw grass at the bottom of the blue paper with a black fine point pen.

I chose pine trees and drew snow on the branches with the white pen because it is winter, but you don't have to do that if you choose to romance your loved one at some other time of the year. That's right, make this card and give to the love of your life with a candy bar or something else JUST BECAUSE and keep romancing your marriage!

Vanias Reed