Peridot Cards

A long time customer recently contacted me about making Christmas cards for her.  Instead of mass producing a single layout, I like to do a unique layout for each card.  This way there will hopefully be the “perfect” card for each recipient.

The papers I selected included different colors, not just the traditional red and green, and different sentiments, not just Merry Christmas.  I used many different printed papers from companies like My Mind’s Eye, Recollections and Authentique.  And specialty papers from DCWV, American Crafts and Crafters Companion.  Embellishments included ribbon, brads, baker’s twine, rhinestones, peel-offs and washi tape from companies like Queen & Company, Love From Lizi and Recollections.

I think I ended up with a good collection that has something for everyone.  Some of my favorites are the black and white with red mirror matting (in the first and second picture), the red and white stripe with red mirror matting (in the third picture) and any of the cards using the pink and teal retro prints (in all three pictures).

I really enjoyed making the cards and hope I am asked to do this again.

I purchased a Michael’s grab bag a few months ago hoping to get some of the paper, stamps and washi tape I had seen other people getting in their grab bags.  No such luck for me.  I ended up with a lot of kids crafts – fun foam, stickers, pom pom kits, etc.

I’m not usually a fan of stickers and I’ve never used fun foam, but I decided to try some of the grab bag supplies on cards.  It turns out that several of the sticker sets coordinated with a Valentine paper pad I already have.  And, since the organization where I donate my cards has started collecting Valentine cards, it was good timing.

The sticker packages had both “flat” and dimensional stickers.  The package of fun foam included a ton of pieces with several heart designs and a few sentiments.

In addition to the fun foam and stickers, I used some Love from Lizi peel-offs and washi tape for embellishment.  Several of the fun foam pieces were multi-part where the heart images could be “punched out” and used separately.

One of the sticker packages had a lot of square stickers with fun Valentine sentiments.  The size of the stickers made them perfect to use with this Operation Write Home card sketch.

For this card I used both flat and dimensional stickers.

Here I “backed” the foam hearts with a piece of printed paper which made the “punched out” areas more of a focal point.

So far I’ve made 60+ cards and still have a lot of supplies.  I’m a bit overloaded on pink and purple and think I’ll move on to something different for a change.