Kids thank you card

Just a quick post.  It's been a hectic few days, preparing for Christmas.  My boys decided they wanted to make cards for their friends this year, but the grand endeavour ended up being abandoned about a quarter of the way in, so I found myself having to finish for them. On top of that, I had agreed to make thank you cards for my eldest to give to the friends who had come to his 7th birthday party last week.  Now, none of the above were complex, but throw in Xmas wrapping, & ferrying everyone to & from their respective Xmas engagements, and you get a slightly frazzled Mum!

Now for the card part - I actually found the thank you cards I made to be far cuter than I'd even hoped for, despite their simplicity, so I just wanted to put them out there as an incredibly easy (yet cute) kids batch card.

 

I will concede I seriously need to work on my photography skills, the lighting is shocking!

I used the Martha Stewart stars border punch, a wood mounted thank you stamp that I've had for ages, and the alien & car stamps from Melanie Muenschingers Wee Tees stamp set, from Gina K designs, which is just so cute!  Et voila!  Throw in some Promarkers, & there you have it!

Christmas card set

I recently bought some of the new Taylored Expression winter/Xmas stamps (and one matching die), and decided I wanted to make a set of cards using the stamps & die, but keep them relatively quick and simple.

The die and one of the stamps is the Snow Globe set, which I thought was really lovely and quite versatile in terms of what you can use it to frame.  The stamp sets were the Ready Set Snow and Deck the Halls sets.  I used the Snow Globe set on every card, then chose images from the Ready Set Snow and Deck the Halls sets to go inside.  I coloured them all with Promarkers, then put all the cards together using papers from the Dovecraft Contemporary Christmas pack.  I kept embellishments to a minimum - I used a little ribbon on a few, and some Stickles, but other than that, nice clean, simple and quick cards.  I'm pretty happy with how most of them turned out - some I like far better than others, but isn't that always the way!

 There were 7 in the finished set.

 My favourites include the two at the back, and the card front and centre.

And I love the card on the right.  That fox is so cute!

I'm now looking forward to playing with the Snow Globe set in other ways - it would be perfect for shaker cards, princess cards....gonna have some fun!!

Masked and inked cards - his and hers and........his?!

I inked these cards using a technique demonstrated by Theresa Momber.  The first couple were made in a deliberately masculine and feminine style, but the last could easily be either - I used it as a birthday card for a male relative, but could easily have altered it slightly for a female card, probably by using a little more purple & pink ink instead of the blue (forgive me for the stereotypes - I feel just as comfortable giving any card to any gender, but I tend to make cards directly for the audience intended, and for my family & friends, that tends to be relatively traditional!)

  

Apologies for the first image, the lighting is terrible!