1st Wedding Anniversary :: DIY card

A fun DIY card to celebrate P&B's 1st Wedding Anniversary.

Pieces from an old puzzle made this card easy to make.

A little paint, a tiny bow tie and a few gems helped to turn the pieces into a bride and groom that

"fit together perfectly"!

The traditional gift is paper so the paper texture and colors kept with the fun theme.   

Happy Monday!

Roller Skate Card

Popping in with another DIY birthday card.

Our daughter~in~law wanted to go roller skating for her birthday this year so I jumped at the chance to make a “Skate” themed card for her.

This roller skating card was fun to put together. All the pieces of the skate were hand cut, hole punched and outlined with markers and metallic pens. The cute pink striped ribbon was laced through the holes and I found this wonderful polkadot "B" in my stash, which is her initial, and added that to the back. The heel was an afterthought and come to find out, the skates she used had a heel also. Even Better!

The striped ribbon shoelace, sequins and her initial were my favorite parts of the card.

It came together pretty quickly with supplies I had on hand.

Simple but so fun!

They had a great time skating and and so did I...making the card!

Happy Wednesday!

Birthday Cards made with Playing Cards!

A deck of cards is all you need to make these fun birthday cards. 

It just so happened that I had several decks of playing cards that were given to me a long time ago by a friend who gets them free from a near by casino. She loves a great deal and they were perfect for these father/son cards.

We celebrated my brother-in-law and nephews 60th and 30th December birthdays together at a fun party so I wanted the theme of their cards to coordinate. 

They both love to play games so the playing cards were perfect.

Choosing the cards and arranging them was fun and took the most time, which is not surprising.

It was fairly quick and easy after that. 

Once the birthday cards were finished I got an another idea!

A little something to go with the cards. 

MORE CARDS!

Actually, a personalized DECK of CARDS for each of them. 

There you have it…birthday cards made with recycled playing cards and personalized playing cards as gifts. FUN!

Happy Tuesday!

'tis the season for .... Christmas Cards

This was a fun and easy little THANK YOU card.

The felt hearts and bakers twine added texture and dimension while the sequins gave the tree some sparkle. 

The little tree itself was cut freehand so you might say it is "one of a kind". 😉

The little imperfections give it some character which softens it a bit. 

With a quick change of words and maybe colors too it would make a great Christmas card as well. Lots of possibilities. 

Happy Monday!

Fishing Sympathy Card

This DIY card was made with lots of love for the family of a dear friend and greatest fishing buddy.

He will be greatly missed.

Blessings, 

DIY :: Med Student Birthday Card

This fun little card took a lot of twists and turns in the making.

Sometimes ideas are hard to come by when you need them and other times there are too many to choose from. It’s a conundrum, however, when they are plentiful it is fun to try them all, which I usually do and did this time. That resulted in three different card front ideas that I had to choose from and I can say from experience it is not always easy.

This little guy was fun. He looks like he has been on a lot of long shifts at the hospital seeing patients and is ready for a Birthday break. He started out as a plain, ordinary, blue monster however once I added a white coat, pants, a belt, stethoscope, clipboard and some balloons he looked a bit more like a med student on rotations who is ready for a break to celebrate his birthday.

For the inside of the card I made a pegboard to hold a clipboard, white coat on a mini hanger and a stethoscope which were all handmade. The place to hang up the things you won’t need when you are Off~Duty. 

The back of the card has a doodle at the bottom and below are some of the doodles for the card before it all came together.

The element squares took a little extra time to make however once they were ready and printed they were easy to cut and mount.  The little white coat fit on the itty bitty DIY hanger perfectly.

The other design for the front was a pair of hiking boots with a tag attached to the back that also says “Off duty”. The name badge and a space for the birthday message were on the inside of the card, opposite the pegboard. So there you have it. The birthday card run down.

Every year is a new adventure and we can hardly wait to see what is ahead. 

Happy Thursday!

Big Edible Birthday Card

This might be the largest DIY birthday card I have ever made.

Sometimes it is fun to do something different and unexpected and this definitely fit the bill. 

To get started I wrote down a few sentences that included the names of candy. Next, I went shopping for supplies. Once I had a variety of candy I started the layout. That took a little more time as there was not a lot of extra room because of all the different candy I wanted to use but eventually it worked. I printed the sentences and then started gluing it all down. My original plan was to make a very large envelope to put the card in however I thought of the idea too late and ran out of time which was disappointing. Instead I decided to wrap it like a present however that was difficult due to the weight of the wrapping paper. So finally, I ended up using a plastic garbage bag to cover it. That worked well and kept it a surprise until the time was right to present the big card. It was a hit. He has a sweet tooth so this card may not last long but the memories will! 

Happy Saturday!

White Coat Ceremony :: diy cards & more

We recently attended our very first White Coat Ceremony which is such a special event that I thought it would be fun to make some things to take and give to a few extra special students.   

Cards were at the top of my list and these cute little White Coat cards were easy to make once all the ideas were narrowed down.  As always, that takes the most time however the details are what make it so fun. Eventually the vision all came together and this is how they turned out. 

The stethoscope was hand cut out of card stock and the small heart was made with a punch. For embellishments I glued on 2 black beads for the ear pieces and a black button for the diaphragm. To make the bell I punched a small dot out of a silver glitter foam sheet and then glued it on top of the diaphragm. The buttons on the coats were threaded first and then glued in place.

Once the cards were finished it was on to making HERSHEY'S® Bar treats. The candy bars were also wrapped in White Coats and donned buttons and pockets to match the cards and White Coat bottle covers. More information about the cute bottle cover project can be found by clicking here. It would have been easy to keep making White Coat theme related gifts however there happen to be some other fun projects in the works around here so need to be disciplined and keep on schedule. 

The ceremony was so nice and we were very happy to be there to celebrate with them. 

Happy Friday!

King of the Grill :: DIY birthday card

We kicked off April with a BBQ over the weekend to celebrate the first of several family birthdays this month.

The cards for this birthday boy usually turn out to be golf themed however he also likes to cook and grill so I thought this would be a fun surprise.

The grill and the apron are very basic so they were easy to hand cut however the small heart on the apron was made with a punch. The legs and handles were made from a long thin strip of black paper cut with a paper cutter and the wheels were made with a paper punch. The string for the apron was just some I had in my stash.

As you may have noticed there are two slightly different versions. The first card at the very top of the post is printed with a fancy font. The card at the bottom I hand lettered with a black pen and then used a silver paint pen to draw details on the BBQ. A rubber stamp was used for the Happy Birthday on the apron pocket.

The card seemed to put me in the mood for checks so checks it was for the birthday table too. And, of course, there had to be a hint of golf somewhere.

So there you have it, the first of the April Birthday cards.

Happy Tuesday!