G45 Tags Cozy Letters

 With my last 2 collections of G45 Christmas cards I had some scraps.  Not alot since I did not use a lot of papers but some.  so I set those scraps aside and made a couple tags from both collections.  These are overly simple tags.  Only embellies that I brought out were ready made snowflakes and some stickles.  I did not take my time with these.  They were more like "slap them together" and be done.  Usually those type of tags get put on the packages of the little kids who never take the time to admire your work.  They are way more interested in the gift than the tag and the tags usually end up in the trash so why invest a lot of time in them.  But still you don't want to throw out the scraps.  At least I don't.  Even if it will be tossed as a tag at least I know I used it first.

One to the next collection.  Hope I have time.

Til next time...............................................

Graphic 45 Letters to Santa

 Every year for the past 16 years I have been with my grandkids as they write their letters to Santa.  My youngest grandchild will soon be outgrowing this ritual which makes me super sad.  These are moments that we need to treasure as we only get a few chances to enjoy them.  First when we were children then years later when we have our own children and then again when we are lucky enough to get grandchildren.  I absolutely love this collection from G45 Letters to Santa.  Again I was insane and only bought the 8x8 pad and being rushed to get Christmas cards done these are pretty basic.  But with the beauty of the papers they look awesome.

Well at the moment I'm "Speed Carding".  Trying to get as many different ones done from different collections as I can before the actual holidays are here.  So far I think I'm failing.  There are only 3 days left before Christmas and not one single card has been mailed.  Good thing there's 12 days of Christmas! LOL

Til next time....................................................

Lets Get Cozy G45

Blue Christmas.  Do you remember the song?  If you grew up with Elvis you do and I sure do remember swooning as he song this song.  As an adult I had found that on many occasions the song could bring tears to my eyes as I would remember friends and family that had either moved away or passed on in life.  But today on my Blog Blue Christmas is going to take a total turn.  Instead I'm talking about the G45 paper collection Let's Get Cozy.  Not exactly Christmasy but definitely Wintery that can be turned into a Christmas card that you can send to all your non religious friends or family.  It has such a wonderful Nordic theme to it and beautiful Winter Blue/Gray colors.  I and overjoyed at this collection. So as not to get too carried away I decided to just make a couple cards Using the cut-a-parts for my main focus.  Now I foolishly bought the 8x8 paper pack.  My reasoning?  I just so happened to have been up at a LSS and they had a few of these gorgeous 8x8 collections.  They also had the 12x12's but boy oh boy I wanted more than one plus I was there for a whole lots of other things and I had to stick to a budget so I thought I was being wise..  Months later I went back and the 2 collections I had bought had been replaced with 2 different collections.  Again being thrifty and the fact that I hadn't used the first 2 collections, I bought the next 2 also in 8x8 pads.  Now months later I have decided to jump into these collections. So today I share with you the Lets Get Cozy Cards.

The 3 I made with the cut-a-parts are 5x7's.  All I added to these were some snowflakes and stickles.  All of the papers are from the collection except for the card bases and the dark blue layer.  The smaller card is a 4.25 x 5.5 and was made with some of the larger pieces of scraps.  I have a few more scraps that I will be turning into tags later.  All together I only used 2 sheet of background paper I think and 1 sheet of the cut-a-parts.

Stay tune for the next collection and eventually an entire assortment of tags from all the collections.

Til next time...............................................................

Christmas with G45

 It's the most wonderful time of the year. With hustle and bustle, I'm so far behind.  The more I try to catch up the further behind I get.  How is that possible?  So when a LLS offered up a G45 Christmas card class I jumped right on the list.  First because I needed cards and second because I LOVE G45!

These cards were beautiful.  The class used the Letter to Santa collection.  Which made me happy and sad.  Happy because I had a pad of Letters to Santa that I picked up when it was released but sad because I had picked up the 8x8 paper pad size and she used the 12 x 12 sheets.  Specifically, the 12 x 12 sheet of the Cut-A-parts.  So, if I were to make these same cards I'd have to made them in miniature size.  Anyway, we made a total of 6 cards.  Oddly I had found that none of her cards were consistent in size.  At a glance it looks like we made (4) 5 x 7's and (2) 4.25 x 5.5's but that is not what we ended up having.  All cards were off by 1/2" to 1" in some way or another.  Not how I would have run a class. 

But the cards were beauties nevertheless.

Now me being me loved these cards as they are but I will admit that before I mailed them, I did add some stickles to each and every one of them.  I just can't help myself. LOL

Well, I have more cards to get done and out into the mail before it's too late.  Hope you all are more organized than I.

Til next time....................................................

Simple Flat Card Kit Gifts

 Oh my goodness I am so excited for what I'm going to hand out to friends this year.  Little card kits!  This won't be a Christmas gift just a little something to say thank you for being my friend. 

I found these adorable Organza bags on Amazon that had little snowflakes embossed on them and BOING!!!!  Light bulb moment!  I decided that I was going to make up a little kit of maybe 6 Christmas cards that my friends and family members could easily put together and handout to their friends as something they made especially for them.  I wanted them to be different than just normal folded cards so I took one of Sue Campfields ideas and did a super easy fun fold that anyone can do. Super Duper easy!

For this card you need very little supplies.

(1) piece solid cardstock 4.25" x 5.5"

(1) piece DSP 5.25" x 8" scored at 4 & 6. 

Some sort of front add on.  See photos to understand. 

Save your double-sided papers and use single sided for this project.  You'll never see the back side.  Now I also used a large and a medium label punch for my original card kit which is the blue card in the photos.  So I also needed a scrap about 3x4 of dark blue and a scrap 2x3 of white.  But as you can see from some other samples the options are limitless.  Use whatever you have on hand.

Now basically all you do to make this card is score the DSP, fold it in half so right sides are facing each other, take the other fold and fold it back so the 2 white sides are touching.  Yes I just stupefied the accordion fold.  LOL.  I just realized how dumb this is reading.  Well at least I'm entertaining right????

Anyway, glue the two 2" sides together.  It just makes it a sturdier flap.  Now glue the 4" side to the solid 4.25 x 5.5 cardstock.  Done, except for add ons that you choose. If you use colored card stock for the 4.25 x 5.5 piece I would either put another piece of white card on the back for personal message or option 2 is to put a slim 1.75 x 5 strip on the inside flap.

This is more like a Post Card greeting card than a standard card since it will not stand independently but it does fit in the normal A2 envelopes.  Another thought is that if you want to have it stand you could make an easel for it.  I do have a small easel die that I got off of Amazon a long time ago similar to THIS . Or I'm sure you could just make your own.  Hope you enjoyed this quickie Christmas card.

Til next time................................................

Halloween Split Card

 Halloween cards are so much fun to make.  I love being able to be playful with cute ghosts and skulls and bats and pumpkins.  I'm going to be so sad when all the grandkids are too grown for the cutesy cards.  Although I am a huge lover of Fall so I will probably have no problem transitioning into Autumn cards.  But for right now I'll still do cute but this one more toward teens.  A little more grown up but not yet total adult.

I made this sample for my ladies group to make 2 weeks ago.  I cut all the pieces so it was basically a slap together card.  I also use all the scrap DSP pieces from previous Halloween cards I just did  in the last few posts.  The base is a standard landscape card 5.5"x 4.25".  Diagonal front piece from upper left to lower right.  Scrap to be used for a different project if you want.  DSP is 5.25" x 4" also cut diagonally.  1 part glued to the bottom front flap the other to the inside right top.  The solid purple is 3"x6" folded in half and glued on inside middle so that when you fold the purple down over the left front flap it is still centered.  Now you embellish.  Mine here is embellished with a lot of extra scraps because I had asked my granddaughter to put hash marks around the edge of the purple and she totally messed it up.  Instead of throwing it out we used scrapes from punching out bats and just covered the mistakes.  So this card is bacially a do whatever card.

So it didn't turn out bad but everyone in my group just got basic pieces.  I did supply them with the ek bat border punch so if they wanted to add some bats and then take the back scraps for more embellies they can.

Here's a little side view of my finished card.

Another super Easy Peasy.........................

Til next time.........................................................

Halloween Miura Card

 Back in April 2024 I made a post titled Fancy Fold Re-Visited and I decided to use this same fold for a few Halloween cards this year.  I have so many Halloween cards I need to make and I'm the type of person that gets bored with the same style and same papers and same dies so I like to mix things up.  To add to my selection to hand out this year I went back to this design and Oh My how adorable.  My papers are a generic package that I received from Amazon.  They were listed as 12" x 12" double sided Halloween papers.  In actuality they came in more like 12" x 11 3/4" and the design was the same on both sides.  This was fine with me because it didn't make me have an anxiety attack over which side I was going to use lol.

I stuck with the black white and orange sheets with this set of cards.  I think there were 3 different designs in this color combo so I did use 2 of the designs.  I loved the way they turned out. I think I used only this paper pack for all my Halloween cards this year.  

Hope you like this set.  Next one to come is sample I did for my ladies club.

Til next time.........................................