Baseball quick card

I had to put together a quickie baseball card and came up with this. I got to use some cool printed ribbon from my stash too (well, actually everything was from my stash!)

End of Year Teacher notes part 2

Here are the rest of the ones that I have done so far...

End of year teacher thank you notes…

End of year teacher thank you notes…

Ok, so most of you know I LOVE to shop and I REALLY LOVE to snag a good deal.
Well, last year one of the big box craft stores was having a routine clearance sale and I spied several packs of colorful monogram initial notecards. (Mind you they were all in the initials that weren’t very popular.) Anyhow I snapped up several packs of 8 cards for 50 cents each and stuck them into my stash. Fast forward to earlier this month when I realized that the end of the school year was rapidly approaching and I hadn’t designed my usual “end of year” note cards for the kids teachers. I realized that I was very pressed for time and decided to use the premade cards and simply cover them with a coordinated piece of decorative paper or decorative cardstock. I also attach a matted computer printed sentiment and ribbon and “viola” instant gifts!

I made 40 of them in less than 2 hours. The longest and hardest part of the whole thing was deciding what decorative cardstock/paper to use! I will be giving each teacher a nice little “rainbow assortment” of colors/designs. Now, I just have to keep my eyes open for more clearance deals 


This is the first batch…

Bright & Cheery Quick cards

I started working on my DD's birthday invitations as well as 1st Communion invitations this week, so I have lots of little piles of stamping things everywhere. Anyhow, as I was going through some of my decorative paper, I found a pack that I snagged at the dollar spot at the big red bulls eye store a few weeks ago and thought that I needed to make some simple & quick "bright" cards (since it hit 77 degrees today!! Everything was already out in my piles, so I threw these together in a couple of minutes.

Tinkerbell Card - ultra easy & fast

Hey want a neat & inexpensive way to make a ton of cards quick? I purchased a pack of mini playing cards for a buck and use them on various cards. Simply coordinate the cardstock to the colors of the image and you can make invitations, thank you, birthday cards or whatever you need. Tonight, I needed a bday card FAST to go along with a bday present that was Disney/Tinkerbell themed...so naturally this mini-card fit the theme perfectly. The only thing stamped is the sentiment and it's an old SU retired sentiment. C/S colors are white, gable green, barely banana and bashful blue.

An hour to spare...

After lunch today, I had about an hour to kill (where I should have been cleaning, but was procastinating)...you know how that goes...

Anyhow, I uncovered a stack of designer paper that was in a bag (hence the reason I should have been cleaning!) and decided to quickly put a couple of sheets to good use. The cards are actually from 2 packs of store bought cards that I got on clearance at Michael's. (They had an initial on them originally.) Anyhow, I simply covered the front with decorative paper, added some ribbon and a sentiment and viola! I have a couple of quickie note card sets to use as gifts or for myself. Very basic and very fast! Now...back to cleaning ;)

Quick card from store bought

I was stamping with my DD on Sunday showing her how to quickly change a store bought pack of cards into something even cuter. The card bases were from an 8 pack of initial notecards I found on clearance for a quarter. DD then picked out a coordinting paper (the ice cream cones paper) to go over the top. I showed her how to use 1 of the cupcake diecuts from a package of 25 or 30 and add glitter to the sprinkles and stamp your bday sentiment onto it and VIOLA! - instant kids birthday card!

The cupcake die cuts were picked up at the local dollar store and are actually the cute die cuts that teacher's use for putting their kids names on them and then up on the wall charts or for wall decorations. They have all kinds of themes and are a steal!!

Quick Sticker Card - Hang in there!

My DD had to complete a school project this weekend and used some of the thousands of stickers that I had leftover from my very first foray into scrapbooking. I decided to show her how quickly you can put together a basic card using them. This is what I came up with.

Holiday Cards

Today was the last day of school and I was there pretty much there, the whole day helping out with the Holiday parties etc. For one of the parties, I was in charge of the activities and I needed to come up with some craft ideas for the kids. I came up with having the kids make 4 holiday cards of their choice. I used some special holiday images that I printed and they cut them out and matted them to c/s, then they added decorative strips or whatever they liked. I was going for the more simplistic approach with the cards since we didn't have a lot of time. Here are my quick samples to give you an idea. The kids then donated some of their card creations to a local nursing home and could take home the rest if they liked and use them or save them. They were a big hit!

Quick Cards

Saturday morning I was running out of time and had to quickly create a gift for one of the CCD teachers. A nice set of note cards feauturing an oldie but goodie SU set: Terrific Tulips did the trick. I think I am doing the same design for their teachers as well....we will see once I get into the stamping mode this afternoon. This set uses 2 step stamping and I easily created the entire set of 10 cards in 15 minutes from start to finish including tying the bows and packaging them with a nice ribbon into a gift bag.

More quick birthday cards

I decided to clean up a small corner of where I "collect" just a tiny portion of my stamp "stuff" and in doing so I came across some non-su orange c/s that I just wanted to use up. I am proud to say I managed to get some more birthday cards done AND use up a whopping 2 sheets of 12x12 paper in the process...2 12x12 designer pieces down, 100 million sheets to go...hehehe. Seriously, I have a bunch of different "slabs" or "bricks" or whatever you want to call those "multi-packs" of designer paper and I love the fact that I can always find something to go with my different colors/shades of images and cardstocks (I just need to use them more!!)

Cards from Kits

This past Christmas I received one of those "all in 1 card kits". You know the kind...there are prefolded cards, envies, some embellishments, stickers etc. Well, I noticed that my bag of cards that I pull from was running low on birthday cards so I figured I would crack open the kit and create some quick cards. All told, it took me longer to find a punch or two and locate some extra ribbon than it did to make these cards - LOL. I grabbed my box of scraps (which included several images ready to use) and made only a couple of mats and kept everything very basic, just accenting with sponging and glitter on some images. Some of the sentiments came with the card kit and a few were stamped. I had the cards done in less than 1 1/2 hours. It was simple and fast. Enjoy and hope it inspires you!

Teacher Thank you gifts

These are the cards that I made multiple sets of for my kids teacher's to close out the school year. I also made a class album (in triplicate) for my daughter's Kindergarten teachers. (The reason it is in triplicate is because when I showed my daughter what I had started, she wanted one too!) I won't put pictures of the album up on my blog due to the kids pictures/names, but if you want to check it out, just ask to view it at one of my stamp camps! It was VERY simple and used a ton of clip art, quotes and a smidgen of stamping.

Anyhow, back to the thank you notes, I stuck with the same design and chose coordinating color schemes and added glitter glue to the roses for the sparkle. The note cards are actually blank store-bought sets by Martha Stewart. I loved the fact that they have a bit of a sheen to the border of them and are smaller than the standard size card. I picked most of the colors of the flowers by utilizing my color wheel and the "dynamic duo" area in the center. It is fantastic!

Here's the recipe:
Note cards: Martha Stewart
Sets: Roses in Winter, Warmest Regards
Ink: Certainly Celery, Groovy Guava, Apricot Appeal, Pink Passion, Pixie Pink, Taken with Teal, Tempting Turquoise, Lovely Lilac, Almost Amethyst

More Quick Cards

Here's a sneak peak at another classic and simple design that I have been favoring lately. It uses the cuttlebug and embossing folders and SU's sentiment set called sincere salutations.

I have started to make some end of the year gifts for teachers etc and am torn between making sets of these cards. I am either going to use 5 or 6 various colors and various sentiments OR make sets of a smaller "note card" size using another favorite set of mine "roses in winter". I haven't decided which I will go with yet, so in the meantime I am just papercrafting when I can/what I can.