Jennifer McGuire continues her share handmade kindess challenges.  " Week 2 (November 9 – 15) will focus on sharing any kind of handmade kindness with anyone who works/serves in our community – anyone who provides a helpful service to us.'  Visit Jennifer's blog for more info about this wonderful challenge.

I decided to send a card to a lady at our church.  She wears many hats (choir director, bell choir player, head of knottie ladies...ect)  and definitely deserves some thanks!

I made a version of this card before.  You can see it in this post. It is inspired by a beautiful card by Maile Belles Here.

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Share Handmade Kindness Week 1: Friends and Family

Jennifer McGuire is hosting a wonderful challenge!  You can see the details here.   Week 1 (November 2 – 8) will focus on sharing any kind of handmade kindness with friends and family.

So I decided to send a birthday card to a friend of mine.

I decided to use a go to card layout modeled after a wonderful card by Lisa Johnson HERE.  This is a great one for scraps or 6 x 6 paper pads.  I used a butterfly from Papertrey Ink's Round and Round anniversary set.  I  colored the outer edge of each butterfly with Copics for some added depth. The butterflies were stamped on the PTI Happy Day die.  The antenna are hand drawn with a Sharpie marker.   The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Wishes Come True stamp set.   Two sizes of rhinestones and some jute twine finish off the card.  I did multiples  of these...my beloved MISTI made these card super fast to make.

The card on the right was made with scraps from the card below:

Sorry I guess the coloring is bit off.  I think it would be great to make up a bunch of these using scraps ahead of time and just add the appropriate sentiment before mailing.   You could easily make this masculine with stars, gears, or tiny balloons in manly colors.

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Color Throwdown 366

I just loved Danielle Flanders "quick birthday cards in a pinch" tutorial at the Weekly Scrapper. You can see the tut here.  I always seem to be making cards at the last minute so I decided to make a few of these myself.  I decided to use the latest  color throwdown challenge. 

I have to admit I never in a million years would have paired mint green with orange but it looks great!

 The word celebrate is a free die cut file from Scrapbook and Cards Today.  "Its your" comes from Papertrey ink's Wonderful Words: Bithday Mini stamp set.  The word "birthday" comes from Papertrey Ink's Vintage Picnic stamp set.  I hand drew the exclamation points.   It's hard to tell in the photo but the stars are actually glittery.  I punch them out of white, colored with white wink of stella glitter brush maker and layered on top with glossy accents.  It really looks like a purchased embellishment in person.  I think the stars make this card a little more masculine then the sequins Daniel used.  I did one more card in mint green too.

A friend of mine gave me a bright paper pack to make some cards for her.  I tend to shy away from big bold colors but I figured this style of card would work well for this pack of bright colors so...

It was nice participating in a challenge again.  I look forward to doing more in the future!  Thanks for stopping by!  Please come back again!

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