Surfing Card

It’s week two of our Summer theme! The name this week is “Surf’s Up.” It’s a light blue matte shade and very Summery. We’ve been inspired to make a card from this shade. It’s a perfect “Just Because” card that you can use to celebrate Summer!

You don’t need very many things to make this card. It’s super easy.

First of all find some surf boards that you can print off and trace from the Internet. We decided on a few different sizes and shapes to make it more fun and whimsical. We kept them to about 3 inches tall/long and about an inch or so wide.

Then we decided on a colour for our card. We chose a light blue shade like the eye shadow colour that we picked for this week.

Then we picked out some colours that would look good with the blue and traced the surfboards on them and cut them out.

We found some stamps that we thought would make a good pattern (patterns/designs work best for this) on our boards and we stamped and embossed those on the surfboards.

Next we made some sand by cutting it out of some sand coloured paper. Draw a curvy line out for the top of the sand first and make it as deep as you want.

Lastly we glued the sand on and then arranged the surfboards in the centre of the card. You can put them in front of or behind of the sand; it’s up to you. Add some waves and a sun if you like.

April Showers Card

We are a little more than half way through April. It’s still raining, but that’s fine because all the rain will help the flowers bloom. We have taken inspiration from the rain and the flowers to create an April showers card. We made this card once before as a wedding shower invite and with different colours, but we thought that it might a fun “Just Because” card to make and give someone to help usher in Spring.

We decided on a blue theme with a pop of bright colour. Do the card whatever colour you choose though; if you have someone in mind to give it to or are making it as a wedding shower invite, pick colours that suit the person or the theme. Our original invite card was teal, white, and red. It looked like this...

For this new card we picked a darker blue, almost primary, and then picked a very pale almost white shade of blue as our layer on top. Make the card whatever size you like. We picked a smaller size than our usual sized card. This one measures 4 ¼ x 6 inches. The light blue layer on top measures 5 ¾ x 4 inches.

For the heart "rain drops," we picked a grayish blue and punched them with our small heart punch.

And for our umbrella, we chose a bright red. Nicole used her machine to cut out the umbrella; it’s roughly 2x2 inches.

There is also a smaller pale blue layer (2 ¼ x 1 ½ inches) which goes on top of a 2 ½ x 1 5/8 inch primary blue layer. On the pale blue layer we have printed the words “Happy Spring” in primary blue ink. You can stamp and emboss words instead if you have a saying or greeting that you like.

Lastly, you’ll need to cut a piece of ribbon to go behind the word layers. We have chosen a thicker blue ribbon.

Ok, so now that you have all of the pieces, you can assemble your card.

First of all, glue your umbrella and “rain drop” hearts down on the pale blue layer. We do this first because we don’t the layer to be glued down on the card and then we mess it up for some reason. Then draw on your "drip" lines coming out of the top of the heart.

Then glue this layer on your card followed by the ribbon. 

Glue the pale blue layer on the smaller dark blue layer and then glue that on top of the ribbon. 

Here is what ours looks like...