Valentine's Day Card for Kids

It’s only a week until Valentine’s Day and we have a fun little craft that you can make for the special child in your life.

We thought it would be fun to make a cute kid’s card to make them feel special and loved on Valentine’s Day.

We found a super cute stamp, an elephant with hearts and an umbrella. We’ve also chosen a fun pack of cardstock to work with. It has some bright cheerful colours sure to make anyone smile.

For our card base we chose the light green shade folded it and cut it into a 5x5 inch square. Then we cut a layer of orange (3.5 inch square) and light purple (3 inch square). To stamp on we cut a white layer measuring 2 ¾ inches square.

We stamped our cute elephant in black ink and embossed it with clear powder. After letting it flatten under books, we coloured it with pencil crayons (light grey, red, and an orange to match our layer).

To assemble, we glued down the orange layer onto the card first, then the purple layer, and then the stamped layer on top.

In the corners we glued on baby hearts that we punched out in the light purple cardstock.

And there you have it, a super cute kid’s Valentine’s Day card.

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.

Oscar Dress Card 2019

The Oscar’s were last weekend so you know what that means...Oscar dress card! We’ve counted down our Top 10 looks and number one has a card inspired by it. As usual, they are in no particular order; they are just 10 dresses that we like. Take a look and enjoy!

Jennifer Lopez-This was a super sparkly dress and I love super sparkly. It does have a high neck which I’m not a huge fan of, but this dress was just so sparkly that it didn’t matter. J.Lo’s after party blue dress was gorgeous too. It reminded me of a peacock in a good way. 

Octavia Spencer-A few years back Octavia Spencer’s grey-silver gown was our choice for a card  and this year her pick was beautiful and very princess like with the puffy skirt and off the shoulder neckline.

Lady Gaga-Lady Gaga’s awards dresses have been absolutely gorgeous. She opted for two black gowns at the Oscars and the second one when she sang “Shallow” was so Audrey Hepburn-like it was a perfect ball gown for her big night. 

Krysten Ritter-This was a very lacy form fitting dress with wide arms. You don’t always think of lace and red, but this deep red colour looked really stunning in the lace and the little bits of sparkle were just what the dress needed.

Tina Fey-We always gravitate towards blue shades each year and this year is no different. Tina Fey’s simple, flowy, royal blue dress was bright and cheerful and it was the perfect way to kick off the show.

Constance Wu-Last year’s card was inspired by a dress almost this colour and it’s on our list of favourites this year again. Constance Wu’s dress is so dreamy and fun that it just makes you want to smile and watch Crazy, Rich, Asians over and over again!

Marina de Tavira-This dress was a perfect shade of red. It wasn’t your basic strapless gown; it looked light and airy with just the right amount of frills and layers.

Helen Mirren-When first looking at this dress you can’t for sure tell what colour it actually is, but when you look at it from different angles you can see the pretty bright pink shade that it is. Poking out is the underlying coral layer. It kind of looks like a layered flower. It’s super flowy and simple; it doesn’t have lots of frills and bling on it. The colour and fabric took over for this dress. It's super fun and cheery and ready to ring in Spring. 

Regina King-The slit on this dress is amazing! It was high on our list for our card to make. It’s such a gorgeous gown that not everyone could pull off. It was paired with the right amount of jewels so as not to take over the overall look of the gown. The gathering on the side as well as on the bodice was beautiful and constructed to flatter the wearer of the dress. And that train...beautiful! 

Amy Adams – Ok, so our winner for our Oscar dress card is...Amy Adams. Both Nicole and I loved this dress. It wasn’t a straight across strapless gown; it had some shape to the top. The white and silver go so nice together and the sparkly silver patter just made the dress pop. So stunning!

Take a look at our creation...

Wedding Cake Card

It’s wedding season, well at least near the end of wedding season and we have a fun and easy wedding cake card that is inspired by the Brusters Wedding Cake ice cream flavour. We have made a similar card like this in the past but have never blogged about it. We’re making two versions, a simple rustic one and one that’s more elegant and colourful. You don’t need fancy machines for this card and you don’t even need to stamp!

Gather some supplies to get started. You’ll need some cardstock. For our rustic card, we’ve gone with a cream coloured “cake” and greens and red for the rest of the card. For the more elegant card, we chose a white “cake” and then blue and a pinky purple colour.

We’ve cut the cards to the usual 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ inch size.

Then we have layers measuring 6 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches.

Then we cut out our cake tiers. The top is 1 ½ x 2, the middle is 2 ¼ x 2 ¼, and the bottom tier is 3 ¼ x 2. If you have a machine like a Silhouette then feel free to use it to do your cutting.

Next we glued the layers on overlapping them while doing so and then glued that layer onto our cards.

Lastly, to elevate the cards a bit, we added some embellishments. Feel free to make it as elaborate as you want and you can add some stamping, ribbon, embellishments, etc. whatever you like. We started with ribbon on both.

On the more elegant colourful card we added a bow topper on top along with simple white sparkly flower embellishments.

On our rustic simple card we added a ribbon bow on top and matching thin brown ribbon between the tiers of the cake. We left it at that to keep it simple as possible but it still has a finished feel.

There you have it, two really simple to make wedding cake cards.

Milk and Cookie Card

Who doesn’t like cookie dough? I know I always have sneak of it while I am baking cookies. Cookie dough ice cream is just divine and this week we take our inspiration from a flavour that is called “Chip off the Dough Bock” which is a Ben and Jerry flavour. It has some of the two most delicious things in it - ice cream and cookie dough. I make my own cookie dough ice cream by freezing cookie dough into little bite size pieces and then mixing those pieces into either vanilla or chocolate ice cream as it mixes. Delicious!

We’re not actually making cookie dough, cookies, or ice cream this week. We are actually making a cookie and milk, cute little "just because" card. Nicole had the idea for it as soon as we picked this flavour to be part of our Summer theme.

It’s a super fun and easy “Just Because” card.

Here’s how you make it...

First pick out a colour for your card. We went with plain 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ white card.

Then choose a layer to glue on next. We chose a purplish pink colour which measures at 6 ¼ x 4 1/4 .

Then find a glass of milk and cookie. We used the Silhouette and Nicole cut out a glass of milk and parts for a cookies that way, but you can find images and trace and cut them out or you can draw your own if you are talented that way. When it came to cardstock colours, we just used the typical colours for milk and cookies.

Now glue all of the bits together and you have a milk and cookie card.