I’m finally back!! While I was visiting my family in the Midwest last month i found a few older cards that I had made. I think i did pretty good for not having a paper cutter or any fancy supplies!

I’ve finally finished with my finals and have made it out to visit my family in Ohio (and to scrapbook with my mom for a week). So new posts will be coming soon!

The inside says “Just Saying Hello”

Sometimes in card making and scrapbooking, less really is more. These cards are so simple, yet beautiful, and all I did was add a few handmade embellishments.

I really loved the layout to this card I did back in June, and decided to give it a slight update using hearts and flowers instead of cupcakes.

I thought the “stitched” hearts were so cute that I wanted to make some cards with stars!

I wanted to find something to do with all of my leftover paper scraps. Most of them were so small I thought making embellishments out of them would be a great idea! It was such a simple thing to do too. For the hearts and stars all I did was cut some hearts and stars with my Quick Kutz Squeeze, then attach a button in a matching color on top.

The flowers did take a bit more time. I only have one size of flower die, so this would work a whole lot better if you have more than one size to make it look more realistic. Anyway I cut out several flowers from the same paper (you could also cut from complementary colored paper too!) then crumpled them up until they almost became soft. Next I took 4-6 flowers and put them in a stack (gluing them as I went) alternating the petals so the flower would look full (my flower die has 4 petals). Finally i finished with a button that matched on top. Took a little time, but beats the 6 dollars for 4 “homemade” flowers you get at the craft store!!

I had so much fun making the last cute card that I decided to make a few more starting with this one. I used the My Cute Stamps- Sweet Kawaii stamp set for this card.

Here’s the card I created for the MFW Card Style Week: Fun and Cute:

Sometimes it is nice to have a card that is blank on the inside to use it in whatever occasion you’d like.

I made these for my husband (well fiance at the time one of these were made) and I’ve been looking for them so I could take a picture and post about them.

This is one of the few “coupons” I made my husband for valentine’s day.

And here is a card I made for him another year…

The “Love Note” sticker is on a small envelope that I wrote some sweet things and stuck inside it. All of the cards on the left I wrote a part of the scripture about charity in The New Testament then wrote a message on the back.

The past few weeks have been hectic trying to move into the new apartment. My part of the office/craft room is finished and I will be posting pictures soon. It will be so nice to have a spread out space (more than our last apartment) to continue to scrapbook!

Last weekend I got my wisdom teeth out, and this week my husband and I have been moving to a new apartment, so there hasn’t really been any time to scrapbook. That will change next week, however, so watch for new pictures!