How to make a Playing Card Birthday Card

Friday is here again. This week went by fast. My week was sort of ok; I felt a little off for the most part, stressed etc. As I write this blog post, I am soaking my tender tootsies in a bucket full of warm water, 2 tbps. of vinegar, and 3 tbsp. of Epsom salts. It feels sooooooo nice. 

Let’s get to this week’s tutorial. Our good friend just recently moved away. Every Friday night a group of us get together and play Crazy Eights and he was one of the group. It’s his birthday on Monday, his first one away from home, so we thought that we’d send him a special card and some cookies for a treat. We came up with a playing card birthday card for him and we’re going to share a how to with you today. We hope that you enjoy it!

Playing Card Birthday Card  

You will need:

White cardstock cut into a 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ card

A suit for your card (we have chosen hearts since we have a heart punch and we went with a blue theme because that’s one of his favourite colours)

A number stamp (he’s turning 23 so we went with a number 23 playing card)

Happy Birthday stamp for the inside (we also chose a birthday cupcake to stamp inside)

Ink to match your card colour and theme

Step 1

Stamp any words or images that you want on the inside first. We chose “Happy Birthday” in dark blue and a green cupcake.

Step 2

Stamp the number and suit in two of the corners.

Step 3

Glue on your suit. We have chosen hearts and we’ll be gluing on 23 of them to match or friends age. It’s such an easy card to make. Only a couple of steps and then you have a super cute or cool birthday card that’s sure to please. 

Strategic Planning Day

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher

Hello fellow crafters. Today is Friday; it has been a long week even though the week has been short because of the holiday.

Today Nicole and I are having a “Strategic Planning” work day. We’re both sitting down in our workspace and are building our business and organizing. We have looked at our products, website, Etsy, and are planning things for the future so that our business can expand a little and grow! It is very exciting and a little overwhelming. I think it is a good thing to have a day like this where we can organize because sometimes you get caught up in making products that you forget how to sell them. 

We are looking into buying supplies in wholesale, how to use social media effectively, ways to upgrade our website/Etsy shop, and new products to sell. 

Something else that’s really cool that we found out about is the NSS (National Stationary Show) that they hold once a year in New York. It would be awesome if we could one day attend and show off our cards or just to get inspired by other people’s paper creations. 

http://www.nationalstationeryshow.com/Exhibitors/tabid/58/Default.aspx

So here is a link to our website that has been updated and revamped a bit and below is a picture of our lovely planning day white board.

Have a good weekend!

http://paperwhitecreations.wix.com/paperwhitecreations

Baby Cards Tutorial

Happy happy Friday!

 

For the past few weeks our focus has been on how to create things for mom. Father’s Day is on the horizon, but that’s still about six weeks away so we are going to share with you some tutorials on and reviews about things we are currently working on. 

We were very very pleased to find out that every single one of our Mother’s Day cards sold out in a store that we keep our homemade cards in. Card sales have been quite steady there as well and the rack is looking a little bare, so we’re making new cards! 

First up are some baby cards. We came up with samples and designs a while back but now we’re actually making them. The stork card is a revamping of our old baby carriage card (Nicole found the stork stamp at a super cool store when she was in Seattle (Paper Source)). We also love the little lion and elephant stamp that we have but haven’t had a chance to use them yet, so we thought we’d make a new “tri” card (that’s a layout that we enjoy to make). 

So here are some pictures and a few guiding words if you’d like to take some time out this weekend to makes some cards. 

P.S. Happy Victoria Day to all of you Canadians like us.  :)

Tri Lion and Elephant Cards

1. I’m going to let the pictures guide you this week; I’ll chime in here and there with a few suggestions though. We usually make most of our cards 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches, but it’s up to you, so pick some baby colours that you like. I’ve laid out the various supplies you’ll need, but again, the colours are completely up to you; it’s your card. 

2. I’ve done pre-stamping here. Once your images and words have been stamped, glue them on to their layers. 

3. Layout what you’ve just glued together and attach them to the big layer.

4. It’s easiest to cut your ribbon too long and to trim it after it has been glued. We put the ribbon on the layer on top of the base of the card. 

5. Glue everything together and...you have a very cute baby card.

Stork Card 

1. Once again we went with a 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ inch card.

2. Colour the stork and baby with colorus of your choice to match the card.

3. Glue the layers together.

4. Stamp and glue the larger layer to the card.

5. Glue on the ribbon. Again we made the ribbon too long and then trimmed the ends.

6. Place the stork layer in the centre and you are done.