Holiday Thank you's

For my thank you cards after Christmas I found this card online and thought is was so cute, but I made a slight change and exchange the greeting to thank you. I used the PTI Holiday words die cut and cut the bell from my Cricut using the Christmas Cartridge. The paper is all PTI.

Thank you Card - Rosie Posie

Here is a card I made using the Rosie Posie PTI stamp set. I embossed the big flowers so they stand out. I hand cut the bottom to match with the background.

Friends til the End Thank you Card

Here is a thank you card I made with the Friends til the End stamp from PapertreyInk. The ribbon is from Stampin Up. I love the bright colors. My husband needed a card to give to a store who donated a some money to the local community, he being a co chair on the community council. The woman on opening and receiving the card said she had never received a thank you card for all the money they have donated. Pretty sad. She loved the card.

Seasoned With Love

Here is a thank you card for a wonderful weekend and food with my DD and SIL. This was made with the Wall Decor cart. The red image is the boarder option and the inside is the pepper shaker.

In side of card.

Birthday Thank You

Here's to all the dear family and friends who gave my son birthday gifts this year. His birthday is on the 4th of July, so you get a little of that theme in the card. "Satisfaction Guaranteed" just seemed to be the perfect phrase for my very active 6 year old!

Graphically Speaking cart and Cuttlebug embossing folder. The "thanks" on the inside is also a Cuttlebug die cut.

Thanks A Bunch

My daughters and daughter-in-laws and friends know they are welcome to come to my craft room anytime. That is why I have it. It was fun to have my daughter-in-law (and grandsons) come. Here is a card she made for a friend.

She used SEI paper, WIMG for the words. The flowers were cut from the the new Serenade Cart.

Jeep

Recently my husband and I went to a place by Escalante, UT called Hole in the Wall. We had some friends drive our jeep down as the 55 mile road was all dirt and rocky. We had a great trip. When we came home they had returned our jeep back to us with a full tank of gas and spotless clean. So I made this "Thanks" card from the jeep saying how much it was needed and how appreciative the owners were too!

The jeep is the bus cut from Doodlecharms and the Thanks is from Walk in My Garden. I used ther Gypsy to weld a shaped card. It is hard to tell but the inside of the wheels, headlights and the back extra wheel is shinny silver paper.

Dahlia Card

Here is another take on the Dahlia fold.  The stem comes from Stretch Your Imagination cart.  I just used the blackout feature, then embossed it with the Cuttlebug.  This is also a tri-fold card, so I used the band around the bottom to hold the sides in. 

I made a few of these, but let me tell you, a lot of love went into them.  I'm definitely being selective about who they go to!

Birthday Thanks Yous

It was my son's second birthday at the end of April.  He has some wonderful Aunts and Uncles who were most generous with birthday gifts.  One of those gifts was a bulldozer!  I didn't have a bulldozer cut, so I used this dump truck cut from Everyday Paper dolls. There are two different embossing folders used here as well and a MS punch.

 

The other BIG hit was a Fire Truck board book with matchbox fire engine. You can see the embossing a bit better with this one. I loved the water drops print on the paper!  It just seemed perfect for what I was trying to accomplish! (The fire truck was also Everyday Paper Dolls.)

I really wanted to say, "Hose me down, your gift was so HOT", but my husband pulled the reins on that one.  He's probably right, but coming from a two year old, I don't think it would have been too "sexy" sounding! ha ha!  Just the same, they really were "FIRE"-tastic gifts!

 The cards were hand stamped by my sweet two year old!

Thank you to my Bee Keeper

My MIL received a bottle of bee balm from my daughter's FIL, Mark, who happens to be our bee keeper. She was so happy to receive this gift and it was very generous of Mark to ship it to California for her. I told my MIL I would make a thank you card for her to send to Mark. It also happened to be the cut of the week at the BBTB2, so I will sneak my submission in before the week is over.

The cute bee and hive are from Sentimentals cart. The Thanks is cut at 4.75 inches to fit in a square 5 inch envelope. The Thanks is from Don Juan Cart. I used some green shading on the edges with some black dots. The flowers are a MS punch with cute buttons in the center. The inside hive is cut at 2.5 inches and the grass is from Paper Dolls cut at fit to length at 4.75. If you haven't used Fit to Length, it is a great feature on the Expressions. Enjoy!

Here is the inside of the card.

We love you SNOW much!

I created this card to say "thank you" for all the wonderful meals and gifts that were brought to us after we had our baby. I used a pink and red theme and delivered or mailed them around the Valentine's holiday. Hence the "love you" in the inside.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the front "thank you" embossing and the snow friends cart for the little guy on top.  I was excited to get this cart, but I'll tell you, making more than about 2 of these snowmen takes the fun out of card making. This cart is better made for my mom's one-of-a-kind cards, than my taste for mass production.

Here was the inside I just designed on the computer and printed out.

Fancy Nancy

Back in November I threw my daughter a Fancy Nancy birthday party.

The Thank You card we made for each little girl who attended was made by my sweet 4 year old.  She painted the cards, then I cut out the crown from the Celebration's cart, glued, glittered and delivered! I thought they all turned out so cute and each was personalized by her!

 

 

Christmas Thank You

I made a whole slew of these as "thank yous" for some very talented people at church. They helped with the Christmas party, so my card went along with the Holiday season. The front (top) was cut with the card feature on Joys of the Season cart. The embossing is a Cuttlebug folder, The inside, (below) has the quote pasted on top of the cutout from the front.

Christmas Card Give Aways

This year for Christmas I made a bunch of cards and gave them away as gifts. Here is a group of them for you to enjoy!

This red card was heat embossed with clear embossing powder to give a shiny gloss to the flourishes.

A card made from StoryBook cart and Stampin Up paper. It was Cuttlebugged with Swiss Dots folder too.

This is a simple Sympathy Card using an embossing folder and Cuttlebugged.

This is a stamped image that I used water color crayons from Stampin Up and then took my blending pen and colored in the fruit.

This is a shape from Accent Essentials that was then Cuttlebuged with the circles folder and touched up with some brown chalk.

This is a copy of a Donna Mundinger creation.

This is a shape card from StoryBook. I had to give the dots some bling and a colorful bow to make the card pop!

Just a simple cards using than embossing folder.

Here is the inside of the card.

Cherry Oh!

In September we did another fun day for the ladies at church.  Mom flew out to be with me for that week and was there to help me with the last minute details.  While she was here, she helped me create this card as a "Thank You" to the ladies who helped.  I made some 16 of these and loved every one!

Details: the cherry is from the Hello Kitty cart.  Then embossed with two different Cuttlebug folders.  The inside is a Fabulous Finds frame stretched.

I really struggled with a cute saying to go inside.  We looked all over the internet and finally one morning I sat up in bed and this is what came out of my head. It's cheesy, I know, but I wanted something cherry, oh, I mean cheery!  hee hee Leave me a comment if you have any other ideas of sayings that would be perfect with this card!

Rose Thank You

Last March we did a Progressive dinner for the ladies at church. There were some 18 women who helped in one way or another with the event. Here is the card I came up with to say "Thank You". There are times when a cute card and even heartfelt words of gratitude just don't do justice. This was one of those occasions.

Details: Storybook cart (cut at 2" if I remember correctly.) The flower was also Storybook cut at 2", 1.5", 1.25", and 1".

Thanks for Sunday Dinner...

We just got back from California Sunday evening and our neighbor brought us Sunday dinner. YUMMY! This is a card I made them to say THANKS! I wanted to try out my new Martha Stewart "punch around the page" punches I picked up in California.

A Special Thank You

I have a great tech guy who always answers the phone when I need help on my job. I made this card for him to say a special thanks. This card was way over due so that is why it is "about time" that I said thanks! He is my one and only tech guy I use and I couldn't do my job without him.

Hats Off!

Here is a thank you card I made for a Christmas gift I received.

It's About Time

This is a card I made for a couple of teen age girls who have been watching my kids for us for free here and there. We wanted to say "thank you" so my husband made them some brownies and we took them over with the card and a big hug!

(Graphically Speaking and Storybook carts)