Thank You Notes!

It has been so long since I've updated, and I'm sorry about that. Other than our Christmas card (which I'll get to posting here one day) I haven't really made any cards. I think I slow down in the winter. I'm more inspired by the colors of spring and summer.

Anyway, Amy's birthday was back in December so I made some thank you notes for her to send out. These super cool papers come from the Rock Star Stack by Die Cuts With a View and they're perfect for Amy and Anna. I got them with Anna in mind because she plays guitar, but they're great for Amy, too. Here are the cards I made:

Father's Day

Yesterday was Father's Day. Like Mother's Day, not a really big day as far as I'm concerned. I know, I'm selfish. I needed a card for my father and one for Onil's father, so I used two older cards. The first one has been posted here before, the second one hasn't:





I also made two other cards this weekend. The first card is a thank you to my sister, who gave us a strawberry pie the weekend we went to her house for my nephew's graduation party. She's got a Boston terrier and the one in this picture is holding a pie, so I thought it was a good fit. I printed the picture from the internet and mounted it on white card stock. I stamped "THANKS!" with individual letter stamps and the stitches are rub-on.



I made this card for my friend, Kevin. I'd been wanting to drop him a note for a while, and we both just had birthdays recently. I found this picture on the internet and thought of him immediately -- I knew he would totally crack up over it. Because, you know what? Sometimes it really can't. It's a simple card -- I mounted the picture on grey cardstock and layered it on handmade rice paper with silver and gold flecks. I got out the label maker again (yes, I really do love that thing) and attached "WORD" to the side.

Just a couple of quick cards...

I had a busy weekend so I wasn't able to do much in the way of card-making. Here are two that I just made.

The first is with a frog from Uptown Rubber Stamps. They came out with a new line of really cute animal images (but nothing online) and I thought this froggie was really cute. He's holding a flower on the stamp but I punched a small flower and put that over top of the stamped flower. The circle of dots is a stamp from Hero Arts and the "thank you" at the bottom is from Classic Appeals (or whatever it's called). I had to use a green background to scan the card, otherwise I wouldn't know where the edges are. So the green around the edge is not part of the card.



The next card is a birthday card I made. I wanted to use our new Dymo labelmaker so I came up with this card. I guess I didn't press hard enough for the last two letters in "HAPPY", so it just looks like "HAP" birthday. Oh well, live and learn. It's a single-sided card (like a post card) and the envelope is one of those long tie envelopes I've been using lately.

Front:


Back:


Envelope:

Hurray for Presents!

A few months ago, I asked Lita to crochet a pair of mittens for me. I'd been wanting a simple pair of black mittens, but apparently mittens are hopelessly out of fashion. I couldn't find any that weren't those waterproof insulated kind. I told Lita what I was looking for and she jumped right on it. I guess she had a black sweater she unraveled or something, because she had the black yarn on hand already. And here they are!



You will note that the picture is entitled "Black Mambas". That's because Lita worked on these while she was substituting high school something or other, and the teenage boys thought the mittens were super awesome. In fact, teenage boys had a lot to do with the making of these mittens. One boy borrowed a mitten to smack another boy in the head (something of which I mightily approve, because smacking teenage boys in the head with mittens is always good). Another boy wanted to know if Lita was going to put an idiot string on them, just like his little sister has. He even demonstrated how he pulled on one mitten so his sister could smack herself in the head with the other mitten. I thought the string was an awesome idea -- the possibility of someone making me smack myself in the head notwithstanding -- because I would be so upset if I lost one of Lita's mittens on the subway or something. So I asked Lita for the string, and with some adjustments it works out perfectly. And finally, at least one teenage boy thought the best name in the world for these mittens would be the Black Mambas, and I liked that so much that I've continued to call them that: "Hon, have you seen the Black Mambas?" So I guess the lesson we can learn from all of this is that teenage boys are completely captivated by crocheted mittens, and if you have the means to make a ton of them you could potentially rule the world.

Then PM, knowing how much I love to make snotty remarks about fundamentalist Christian tracts on my other blog, thought that a Lenten present would be just the thing for me. And I think so, too! I especially like the keyfob, which I have hung up on a nail by my door. Almost a mezzuzah; it's at least in that spirit.



Also completely awesome was the comic he sent to me with his note. He drew a picture of Onil swiping my present and me chasing him. Look how big my boobs are! OH YEAH!



So to thank Lita and PM, I made them a few things. I sent Lita a copy of the heron bookmark she liked so much and this set of thank you and birthday cards in four different colors:





PM received three bookmarks, which I finally got around to sending last week. Sheesh, I'm late. (CD are PM's initials.)

Birthday, Valentine, Thanks & General

I made two cards this weekend. This first card is a take on a card I saw in Card Maker magazine. It was a Happy Hannukah card but I liked the shape and made it into a birthday card. Both Amy and Onil asked why I made a tombstone card. Not what I had in mind. And not at all what you want for a birthday card. So I probably won't be making this kind of card again. I guess I'll save it to send to someone I don't really like very much.



I also made this card just for kicks. I've actually had it in my head for a little while and have just gotten around to making the card.



The next two cards are cards that I made a while ago and found over the weekend while doing some cleaning. The first one is a Valentine that I made back in February:



And this is a card I made a few months ago. The "Tank You" sticker really says Thank You but I cut the h out.

Other Cards

This card was made for my niece's baby shower. The baby was a premie and already born by the time the shower rolled around, but we knew he was going to be a boy anyway.



This next card is for a very sad occasion. I made it for a co-worker whose wife was expecting. They went into the hospital and the baby died in birth. The inside of the card says, "May the hope that comes with trusting in God comfort you during this time of sorrow." (My co-worker is also a pastor.) I set the verse in lavender ink and used a photo that my husband took of some lavender in the Lititz Springs Park. I printed the photo out on white linen card stock and adhered the verse (after blocking it) with foam-mount tape.



The following cards are just a couple of cards made for no particular reason.