Cards for Healthcare Workers

 I wanted to thank some healthcare workers so I pulled out some die cuts, some extra bases that I hadn’t finished figuring how to decorate and various stamp sets and this is what I came up with. 

Variations on a Theme

 I recently was playing around with my patterned papers and found two coordinating papers that I have been hoarding. I needed some quick cards that I could use to send to people when they were down in the dumps and this is what I came up with. 

Birthday Cards

      I send out 30 birthday cards a year, and that is only to my family.  I had a large selection of birthday cards saved up for this year.  From time to time my children ask to look through my cards to give a card to a friend so I like to have an assortment.  I decided to pre-assign cards to each of the 30 people I need to send the cards to this year and after I was done, I had none left and still needed 1 more.  

     Here is the result of my first of my attempt to build up a better supply of birthday cards.  I seldom use patterned paper anymore but I decided to try it again because it is easy to put something together and comes together much quicker.  I had some die cuts and stickers ready to go.  The only thing I stamped was the inside sentiment.

Pet Sympathy Cards

 

My daughter works at a Veterinary Clinic and recently she has asked me to make a sympathy card whenever a co-worker loses a pet.  I am always in a hurry so I don't photograph them.  I just made 3 for her today but 1 of them wasn't up to my strict standards so I didn't photograph it.

Here are the two that I am happy with but the others were very good too.  I need to start making them ahead of time so I can photograph them and not be stressed out and staying up way too late at night in order to get the cards done for her.

My First Baby Quilts

 

I made 2 baby quilts last month and had a blast.  I had fabrics that I had no plans for using and I thought I could make a baby quilt out of it.  Most of my fabric stash is made up of fat quarters up to about 1/3-1 yard cuts.  This makes it ideal for baby quilts.

I used my Accuquilt die cutting machine to cut 5 inch charm squares of white and 8 different prints with pink in it.  I put a pretty pink floral on the back and used the same fabric for binding.  I used a simple crosshatch quilt pattern for quilting because as long as my corners all matched-which they were very close-I could quilt without even marking the quilt top.  I am hanging onto it until I have a need to make a baby quilt.

Prior to this quilt I made another baby quilt from various blue fabrics in a 9 patch pattern..  I tried stitching in the ditch but since it was my first attempt at making a quilt top, my corners didn't match at all and my straight lines ended up zig zagging all over the place.  I decided not to do stitch in the ditch in the future since a crosshatch design is easy and turns out very nice.  That quilt will eventually go to a charity.

This is my cow quilt.  The gray looking squares are actually the words 'moo' written over and over again.

The back is white and the binding is white and again I used the crosshatch no marking quilt design that is so easy to do.

 

John Wayne Quilt

 I finished the John Wayne quilt I made for my husband's birthday.  He is a huge John Wayne fan.   

Riley Blake came out with this panel and the coordinated prints so I just had to get it for him.  It is 

very large throw that he can use on the couch when he lays down to watch T.V.

Lining up Layered Stamps and Split Card Tricks

 I had so much fun using the Gina K Designs YouTube video on how to line up layered stamps so that I could use those with the Split Card Tricks Video by Jennifer McGuire.  I then went crazy and made even more types of cards with the many flowers that I made, die cut, and fussy cut.

WPlus9 Pretty Peonies, Altenew Vintage Roses stamp sets. Gina K Designs sentiment from a freebie.  Altenew mini cubes colored inks, Gina K designs Black Onyx ink.  Gemstones added.

Card tops created using 2 different EK Success border/edge punches.  They may be retired because I had a hard time researching them.  I was not able to find them online in my brief search.  The sentiments were from the Altenew Vintage Roses stamp set.  I used gemstones on one card and pearls on the other.  I used Wink of Stella on fthe lowers of the card on the right.

These cards were created using the Fabulous Frame stamp set from Gina K Designs.  I used pearls on some of the cards and gemstones on another one.  I used Gina K Designs card stock.