Cards from DCWV's The Green Stack

Birthday Card: Go Wild with Zebras

Zebra

Front of Card:

Zebra

Inside of card:

The cartridge used for the zebra, flowers, and phrases is Create a Critter.  I used different sizes of clear gems throughout the card to add some bling.

Owl Birthday Card

This darling owl is from the Create A Critter cartridge.  The font comes from Cricut Alphabet.  The sparkle flower paper is from the DCWV Pocket Full of Posies paper stack.

Birthday Card: Bug-free day

I used Stretch Your Imagination Cartridge to create this card.

Birthday Card: Smell like a monkey, and you act like one too!

New Arrival is the cartridge that I used to create this card.

Birthday Card: Getting older

I used the Paper Pups cartridge to create this card.

Inside:

Birthday Card for Shopper

The shoe is from Gypsy Wanderings, and the purse is from New Arrival cartridge.

Giraffe Graduation

From top to bottom: Envelope, Card, Gift. The envelope and card are both just decorated with stickers. The gift base is an old Christmas container that I covered with paper, stickers, and cricut cutouts. Then I put in a piece of foam and covered it with white crinkle paper. Using the cricut, I cut out the giraffe (New Arrival), phrases with backgrounds (Gypsy font and Base Camp), a tree with leaves (Stretch Your Imagination), and a box (Tags, Bags, and Boxes). The cap on the giraffe is a sticker. All the pieces are mounted on bamboo skewers and stuck into the foam base. Inside the box with flowery top, I placed a little gift for the grad.

Mother's Day "Card"board

I used the Walk in my Garden cricut cartridge for the daisies. Some of cut from white cardstock and some are cut from vellum. The words are white sticker letters. The "card" is a piece of cardboard covered with paper. Inside is a coupon for an at home spa day, with a coordinating piece of vellum overlaying the details. Gold cord is tied to a button, wrapped around the folded "card", and slipped over the button to secure the "card" closed.

Fabric Scrap Card

For a quick card, I sewed a scrap piece of fabric onto a card and added a saying. This is also a fun way to coordinate your card with a homemade gift, or to give a hint of the homemade gift you aren't quite done with.

Double Door Card

I made this card from the blue piece of cardstock that was already scored to fold like that. I used a punch for the large scalloped circle, with mounting tape on one side and velcro on the other so both sides were adhered at an even height. Now one side releases to open up to the inside of the card. I did have to make my own envelope for this card since the piece of blue cardstock was larger than a normal card.

The Hardware Store Card

Looking for just the right shades of paper for your card? Visit the paint section of your local hardware store for an array of colors. The fun names of the different colors add character to the card. A few alpha and flower stickers and you're all done.

Valentine Cards

I used the Cricut Cartridge "Home Accents" to create these cards (the word "love"). The tag is stamped and punched.

Birthday Card

White card with letter stickers spelling out the phrase. Chalked all four edges in peach. Used terrifically tacky tape to adhere the ribbon stem, ribbon leaf, flower and button. Added some coordinating stickers around the flower and also on the inside of the card.

Flower Pot Card

I used the Cricut cartridge Walk in My Garden to make this card. For the back flower pot, I cut it out using the mirrored image. I made a blue/purple version and a red/orange version. There are four layers on flower. Two are cut out on solid paper. Two are cut out on paper with a print design. I saved the cut file if you are interested.

Mother's Day Card

Halloween card for Mrs. Walker

Taylor wanted me to make a Halloween card for his 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Walker. So, I did, and here is how it turned out. Nothing to fancy, only took about 10 minutes to whip up.

Just thought I would share. My girlfriend and I also made name embellished spooky bookmarks for all the kids in the class. Those are already bagged up and ready to go for the party on Friday, or I would share those too.


Happy Halloween crafting to everyone!

Leftover Letters

I thought this card idea could be helpful to use up letters of the alphabet that you have left and can't spell anything out of them. You could use "C"s for Celebrate, and "F" for Fabulous, and so on to use up letters that aren't in Happy Birthday. Here I used only two metal circles, mostly because I didn't have room to spell it out with that large of embellishment. If you don't want to hand-write in the rest, use a computer font or small letter stickers.