Happy Birthday Kathy L

The birthday card that matches the surprise box card  made for Kathy uses PoppyStamps Garden Poppy Sidekick Frame (and stencil) cut from very vanilla (SU) paper and mounted on embossed Blackberry Bliss with a Mossy Meadow cardbase. Birthday sentiment is a sticker from Pop Ups Etc.

This "card box" was created with Graphic 45 paper from the "Bloom" collection as well as SU Blackberry Bliss cardstock.  The box card tutorial was inspired by Butterfly Kisses tutorial (modfied) The closure is a back wrap velcro button. The die that formed the window on the little box filled with Hershey chocolates was from the SU Lots of Labels dieset.

Sentimental Iris Birthday

This tri-fold window card is created with embossed stamping from Sentimental Iris Memory Box stampset.  The artpiece is painted (and masked and spattered) with with Yasutomo and Kuretak metallic shimmer watercolor paints. The card design was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's tutorial for Window Surprise Cards.  The acetate backed window was cut using Spellbinders S5090 die Romantic Rectangles. 

Pop Up Tray Surprise Box

The surprise bunny that pops out when the box is opened

I made a couple of slide tray pop up surprise boxes for Easter little gifts.  The popup tray is inspired by Mixed Up Craft's tutorial.  The boxes are made with whisper white cardstock (SU) which is a little too lightweight.  (Prefer Neenah Solar  White 120#) The designer paper is from the gorgeous "Flutter" collection by Graphic 45.  The Filigree Bunny is a Simon Says Stamp die exclusive...it is backed with pink SU paper.  The grasses the bunny is sitting in are diecut from Hero Arts Thorntree and Grasses Dieset. The embossed sentiment is from LF Scripty Sayings, and is embossed one in pearl and the other in white EP.  The pop up medallion bunny is from my stash, as well as the Happy Easter sentiment that is inside the box tray.  I have a little exchange gift that will be part of a Red Hat event coming up, and I have packaged the tray inside a bunny pouch that is also from my stash, and I don't know who the designer is for that.  The large pouch box is printed on photopaper, with the gift tray wrapped in tissue edged with chive cutting kitchen scissors.The gift tray is about 7 inches long

Who ME?

Mini Pocket Page Matchbook Album

One fold open 

 All Three folds Open

All inside pages and pockets

This little album is inspired by Kathy Orta in her video tutorial for a Mini Pocket Page Album There are dozens of places to put little photos or journaling cards, as the matchbook expands. They are blank in this example so that my DIL can fill them as she wishes.  The little matchbook is held closed with a magnet. The edge of the top flap is punch cut with a Martha Stewart Edge Punch. I have also used the Bellen Corner (MBO) and Penny Black's journaling lines from "life's Journals" stampset. Flowers are punched from the DP which is from a collection by SU. Pearls, nuvo clear drops and a tag punch set the basics for this delightful and fun project. 

Sympathy

This sympathy card is created with vellum over acrylic, colored with Distress Markers and Wink of Stella from SU in "graceful glass" paper pack.  The butterflies are cut from glimmer paper from Memory Box Butterfly Branch dieset.  The front sympathy message is from Altenew "Wings of Hope" stampset.  It is Washington Irving's quotation:  "There is a sacredness in tears; they are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.  They are messengers of overwheming grief and unspeakable love."  With sincerest sympathy, Kathy and Al in the loss of your beloved granddaughter Cassie.  May you find strength in the love of family and the warm embrace of friends.

Easter--2019

Simon Says Stamp Filigree Bunny Die outlined with glitter pen is the artpiece on this white and Night of Navy (SU)  Easter Card.  The bunny is placed over an intense alcohol ink paper and touched with Nuvo Shimmer pen.  The pearls are on top of an organza satin edged ribbon.  The sentiment is from Scripty Sayings Celebrate stampset by Lawn Fawn (the ribbon IS straight, just didn't photograph that way!)

This is a Window Surprise Card, inspired by Jennifer McGuire

It is created with the Simon Says Stamp Filigree Bunny, (brushed with shimmer pen and edged with Blushing Bride Ink. (SU) and with Memory Box Fairytale Flower Border Die. The Easter Greeting is from SU Delightful Dozen Stampset, and the inside sentiment stamp is by Penny Black in Happy Thoughts. The paper is white neenah and SU Blushing Bride. All accented with Nuvo shimmer pen and pearls.  The holographic glitter lines are stickers from Pop Ups Etc.  See also Easter

Card with a surprise box inside

Created with the Graphic 45 Collection "Flutter" (2019) This card contains a box with a window-lid for treats.  The window is cut with Spellbinder's Labels 18. The solid cardstock base is Neenah Solar White 120# and matting is SU Watermelon Wonder.  The Fairies are diecut from Memory Box Fairy die collection. The leaves are diecut from a CheeryLynn die. Corner punch is by Fiskars. Fairies and Butterflies are brushed with Nuvo shimmer pen and the bees are coated with 3d Crystal Glaze

The design was inspired by Mybutterflykisses tutorial (2013), but I have cut the length of the card down one inch.

Inside Surprise Spinner Card

Inspired by Jennifer McGuire, this spinner surprise Thank You card is created with the lovely Hero Arts Garden Fancy Die, with a butterfly from the Memory Box Butterfly Stem die, with the IO Thank you script die and stamps from Just Rite Grand Sentiments Stampset CR 03885)  Paper is heavyweight Neenah white cardstock, diamond glitter paper and SU Rich Razzleberry. The butterfly is suspended on transparent nylon thread and spins when the card is opened or moved.

Get Well Pop Box Card

This pop-open box card was created with the beautiful papers and elements found in Graphic 45 paper's collector kit "Flutter."  As the card is opened the box falls open to reveal the flower burst inside.  There is room on the back panel for a personal sentiment.  The embossed sentiment is from the Memory Box Stampset Irises.  This was the featured project at our Papers N Pixels Club meeting today in Sun City.  The pop-open box card was inspired by Meg Loven in a tutorial she did in 2017 on Utube